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Warren Estabrooks Presentation 1/21/2011

On Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a presentation on Auditory-Verbal Therapy by the esteemed Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip.Ed.Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT, President and CEO of WE Listen International, Inc. Like all great presentations, I came away enlightened, challenged, and full of great ideas to incorporate into my practice of the art and science of AVT.Continue reading “Warren Estabrooks Presentation 1/21/2011”

Difficult Listening Situations

The first steps to listening well are: a well-programmed hearing aid or Baha and/or well-MAPped cochlear implant(s) therapy (auditory training, aural (re)habilitation, Auditory-Verbal Therapy) from a qualified profressional practice, practice, practice

Get Off the Stage!

Are you making therapy happen?  Can your sessions be heard in the next state because you’re speaking so loudly?  Are you EX-AAAAAA-GER-RAAAAAA-TING the WORDS so LOUDly and unNATuraLY that even a person with typical hearing would have trouble deciphering your message?  Do you leave the session sweating because of the song-and-dance routine you’ve just performed?

Books for Shared Reading: Choosing Them, Changing Them

Sharing books with your child is one of the best activities you can choose for growing pre-literacy, speech, language, listening, and social skills.   By carefully choosing books, and changing them to fit your needs, you can enhance the language and listening opportunities and help have a more successful interaction with your child or student(s).

Don’t Be Too Good of a Listener

As parents and professionals who work with children with hearing loss, we become expert listeners and communication decoders.  That endless string of syllables?  We can interpret that!  That mosh of real words and unintelligible phonemes?  No problem, we’ve got it covered.  With our familiar ears, we often know what our children want to say, evenContinue reading “Don’t Be Too Good of a Listener”

You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word: Hanen Program Presentation

On Friday, October 8, 2010, I attended a presentation called “Parent/Caregiver-Implemented Interactive Language Intervention: Introduction to the Hanen Approach” by Toby Stephan, M.A., CCC-SLP. The presentation described the Hanen Program, a Canadian intervention designed to help parents of children with global language delays.  The program, similar to a Listening and Spoken Language approach, acknowledges that parents are theirContinue reading “You’re Not Getting Paid By the Word: Hanen Program Presentation”

Praise the Process, Not the Product

When we give children praise like, “Good job!”, it may make them feel good for a moment, but what does it really tell them about the job they’ve done?  In reality, it only tells them that they’ve completed the task to our satisfaction.  They’ve gained the approval of an adult, which seems to be the only thingContinue reading “Praise the Process, Not the Product”

Words Are Free

One of the greatest programs for improving your child’s speech, language, and listening is at your disposal right this very minute.  It costs nothing, takes little time, and anyone can implement the program.  The results are proven, and they are powerful.