Protected: AVT Fall 2020: Super Sessions Webinar Recording
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Protected: AVT Fall 2020: Listen Up! Webinar Recording
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Give Me a “WHY”
So often in therapy, I feel that we (professionals) coach parents to use specific techniques (which is great!) and expect them to just do it because we said so (not so great!). This is not to say that therapists are being authoritative, or pushy, or bad in any way, but I do think that we generally…
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FREE WEBINAR: Teletherapy 101
With so many professionals unexpectedly moving to telepractice in light of the COVID-19 global pandemic, I am offering a FREE webinar to help people get started with teletherapy. CLICK HERE to join tomorrow 3/19/2020 at 8PM EST.
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FREE PRINTABLE: Don’t Forget to Feed Your Brain!
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean our brains take a break from growing. Use this printable to remind yourself, your child, or the families you serve to keep up the good work of “feeding their brains”!
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The PAW Strategy for Structuring Your Session
Therapists (hopefully!) spend a lot of time carefully planning goals and activities for each Auditory Verbal Therapy session, but professional planning is not enough. Parent coaching is the heart of AVT. It is not enough for you, the professional, to know what’s going on. Parents deserve this information, too! Below, I’ll detail a strategy I came up…
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AG Bell 2018 Presentation Slides
This summer I had the opportunity to present with some incredible friends and colleagues at the 2018 AG Bell Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona. Below are PDFs of the slides from our presentations. Enjoy!
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“Minimally Invasive Therapy” (Rethinking Equal Talk Time)
When I began studying auditory verbal therapy, one concept I learned was the “equal time pie” or “equal talk time,” — the idea that all three participants in an AVT session (child, parent, and therapist), should each be doing roughly 1/3 of the talking during the session. For years, I tried to self-monitor during my…
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The World’s Best Mirror
As Auditory Verbal Therapists, our job is not to evaluate or judge parents, but rather to guide and coach. How can we best offer feedback that validates families’ effectiveness at helping their children grow?
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Provider Quality Checklist
When you have a child with hearing loss (or any disability), you are instantly thrown into the deep end of new jargon, appointments, professionals, and more. When a therapy or early intervention provider is assigned to your family, how do you know if who you’re getting is any good? They’re supposed to be the expert in…
