David Sousa, Ed.D. David Sousa shared insights from the field of educational neuroscience, which combines psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy to study the interaction between mind, brain, and education. With technology influencing nearly every aspect of our lives, how has this changed the way children relate and learn?
Tag Archives: Auditory Development
Complex and Challenging Cases: WEBINAR RECORDING
See below for a recording of my May 2016 presentation for Cochlear and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children/Renwick Centre “Complex and Challenging Cases” [CC]
Aim for the Middle
It is so exciting to read about people with hearing loss in the news accomplishing great things. Academic award winners, artists, actors, athletes — their stories raise public awareness about hearing loss and dispel stereotypes about people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Conversely, there are those people with hearing loss who struggle mightily —Continue reading “Aim for the Middle”
Falling into a Hole
When I help children learn language, I want them to fall into a really deep hole. It’s not as mean as it sounds! By thinking about learning new skills as “falling into a hole” vs. “climbing into a mountain,” we, parents and professionals, can structure our play with children to help them learn more while struggling less. Here’sContinue reading “Falling into a Hole”
Back to the Audiogram
A child with hearing loss may visit the audiologist once every few months, or, for an older child, only for a yearly check up. In contrast, these same children often see their therapists much, much more frequently (an average Auditory Verbal Therapy family receives one hour of therapy each week). How can therapists (and teachers) partnerContinue reading “Back to the Audiogram”
WEBINAR: AVT Jumpstart!
Are you a parent considering Auditory Verbal Therapy for your child? Are you a professional considering pursing Listening and Spoken Language Specialist certification? Are you a speech-language pathologist with deaf children on your caseload? Are you a teacher of the deaf looking to brush up on your spoken language strategies? This webinar is for YOU!
WEBINAR 2/16/2016: One Lesson, Five Levels
How can you choose one book and one set of toys a week and make them work for ALL of your patients? How can professionals working with groups of children make one lesson effective for children at various levels? How can parents choose toys that will help their children grow speech and language skills forContinue reading “WEBINAR 2/16/2016: One Lesson, Five Levels”
Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy
Think of your brain as a library. Every experience you’ve had, everything you’ve learned, read, seen, heard, tasted, felt, every good and bad memory, all stored on shelves for your reference. When you encounter something new, you can go back to your library for help understanding it and use things you know from the pastContinue reading “Redundancy, Redundancy, Redundancy”
Acoustic Highlighting
How can we make the words we say easier for our children with hearing loss to hear, understand, and use themselves? One technique you can pull out of your toolkit is Acoustic Highlighting. What is it and why does it work? How and when do you do it? Get your highlighters ready, let’s learn!
Graduation: When Do We Finish with Therapy?
Long ago, many children with hearing loss received “speech therapy” well into their teen years and beyond. Thanks to newborn hearing screening, early intervention, and great hearing technology, the world is changing! Now, we find ourselves asking, “When is a child with hearing loss ready to graduate from auditory-verbal therapy?” More correctly, because therapy is aContinue reading “Graduation: When Do We Finish with Therapy?”
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 