Transcript The Auditory-Verbal Package

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Auditory-Verbal Therapy
Anne Gabrielides
[email protected]
0419325035
Auditory-Verbal Therapy…. Success for Life
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Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life
What is Auditory-Verbal
Therapy?
• Immediate practical support for babies,
children and their families to access their
residual hearing in order to communicate
for life.
• Offers hope, encouragement, support,
expertise, guidance and nurturing.
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Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life
What is Auditory-Verbal
Therapy?
• Individualised and family-centred
• Teaches natural spoken language and listening
following natural child development models using
evidence based research
• Allows the full range of educational, social and
vocational choices for your child
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What is Auditory-Verbal
Therapy?
Practical Implications
+ Immediate fitting of hearing aids and/or
cochlear implant
+ weekly sessions with the therapist designed
to be fun and practical
+ Carry-over activities in the home based on
your own family and child’s needs
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What is Auditory-Verbal
Therapy?
Practical Implications
+ entering into a partnership with the therapist
and audiological team
+ being your child’s advocate
+ learning to stimulate speech, language and
communication, plan strategies and make
informed decisions
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What is Auditory-Verbal
Therapy?
Parents
need:
Zara (1998)
‘Expectations’
that are high and
realistic
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The AVT Framework
• Young children can use technology
assisted hearing to learn to listen,
process verbal language and to speak.
• These same children can enter
mainstream schools and be independent
citizens in mainstream society.
• Your child needs highly enhanced
auditory and language input to reach
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potential.
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The AVT Framework
• Parents acquire training and knowledge
during therapy sessions that are easily
transferred to home
• Therapy sessions are always diagnostic
and proactive
• Listening and auditory understanding is
promoted as part of your child’s day-
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The AVT Framework
• All therapy goals are part of normal
developmental goals leading to
mainstream schooling
• The ‘structure’ is highly flexible relying
on documented therapist and parent
evaluations, goal planning and links to
established developmental norms
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Types of Hearing Loss
Hearing loss can be described by the
type of loss:
* conductive
* sensorineural
* mixed
http://www.hearing.com.au/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=38&languageId==1&contentId=-1
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Reading an Audiogram
Your child will have
had an audiogram
that you, the therapist
and audiologist will
use constantly to best
plan for your child’s
new technology
and learning
http://www.hearing.com.au/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=38&languageId==1&contentId=-1
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Developing Listening and
Auditory Function
1. ‘Auditory awareness and perception
2. Auditory attention and inhibition
3. Distance hearing
4. Localization
5. Discrimination
6. Auditory feedback and monitoring
7. Auditory memory store
8. Auditory memory span and sequencing
9. Auditory processing
10. Auditory understanding’ (p. 12)
Caleffe-Schenck (2005)
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Auditory-Verbal Therapy….Success for Life
Developing Listening and
Auditory Function
Activities and games that stimulate your
child’s auditory development happen all the
time!
At:
feeding
playing
nappy changing
cuddling
reading
bathing
Pollack, Goldberg & Caleffe-Schenck (1997)
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The Difference Between
Hearing and Listening
The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1998)
•Hearing: ‘to perceive with the ear’
•Listening: ‘to hear with attention’
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The Difference Between
Hearing and Listening
‘Hearing is when a sound reaches
your ears, listening is when it
reaches your brain!’
(Source unknown)
automatic
It takes practice
Listening is not
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What can Impact on Child
Development?
Your child is developing in four overlapping
areas:
Physical Development
Thinking skills
Social and Emotional Development
Communication Skills
Read more at http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/abc/
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What can Impact on Child
Development?
Your child’s hearing impairment can impact
on all four areas of natural child
development unless listening and
communicating becomes part of their
personality.
AVT addresses this for your
child.
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Basic AVT Techniques
Activities will involve:
+games
+songs
+toys
+fun activities
that are easily replicated at home
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The Parent’s Role
champion
facilitator
advocate
partner
PARENT
role model
team player
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The Parent’s Role
be motivated
provide a rich listening
environment
be actively involved
stimulate hearing, listening
and talking
PARENTS
be kind to yourselves
be patient
can: delight in your child’s growth
love and nurture
join support groups
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Vygotsky (1995)
“One must keep in mind that any child with
a disability is first of all a child…. From a
psychological and pedagogical point of
view, one must treat the child with a
disability in the same way as a normal one.”
(p. 4)
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