When a child is born, his brain is a wondrous organ, primed to learn language and make sense of the world. Hearing or deaf, children are born with an auditory cortex and language centers in the brain. They are sponges, soaking up experiences and language input.
Tag Archives: Auditory Verbal Therapy
Grammatical Morphemes: Precious, Fleeting, and Oh-So-Important
Morphemes are the smallest units of speech capable of conveying meaning. Words like “dog” and “bark” are “free” morphemes, because they stand alone and have meaning. Grammatical morphemes are tiny markers that can be added to these words to add to or change their meaning. They are “bound” morphemes because they don’t work on theirContinue reading “Grammatical Morphemes: Precious, Fleeting, and Oh-So-Important”
The Hand Cue
The Hand Cue is one of the most hotly debated and contentious aspects of Auditory-Verbal Therapy. What is the Hand Cue?
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”
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”
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.
Be an Informed Consumer
Is my child receiving good services from our teacher of the deaf/SLP/AVT/early interventionist? Well, how on earth would I know? How can I tell “good” therapy when I see it? How do I choose between Program A and Program B for my child? Where do I go from here?
AG Bell 2010: Monday Concurrent Sessions
Auditory Neuropathy and Cochlear Implants: Theory and Treatment Caroline Arendt, CCC-A; University of Michigan Cochlear Implant Program Kelly Star, M.A., CCC-SLP; University of Michigan Cochlear Implant Program
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 