When you’re speaking with a small child — any child, with or without a hearing loss — remember to use SMIRPS:
Tag Archives: Auditory Verbal Therapy
The Next Level
Hooray, hooray! You’ve mastered a goal! Where to now? There are some simple ways to take a skill that your child has mastered and “kick it up a notch” to continue to challenge them to expand their skills. Try this:
Shh!
One of my favorite Auditory-Verbal strategies is also one that, at first, seems ridiculously couterintuitive — whisper!
Resource Files
One of the most crucial aspects of a listening and spoken language intervention with children who are deaf or hard of hearing is PARENT TRAINING. Parents must be empowered to be their child’s primary teacher and language facilitator. Professionals help parents along this journey by modeling skills and techniques, providing information, and guiding and coachingContinue reading “Resource Files”
Principles of Auditory Verbal Therapy
I’d like to share a little bit about the Principles of Auditory-Verbal Therapy. These 10 guidelines are the standards for Listening and Spoken Language Specialists Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapists the world over. The following are the principles (in bold) and my reflections on what they mean to me (in italics). Please note that my reflections areContinue reading “Principles of Auditory Verbal Therapy”
Picture This: Possessive Pronouns Activity
Today, in therapy, I made an experience book for my six-year-old student. We’re working on possessive pronouns, so I made a bunch of pages with pictures of various people (just random people from a clip art) and various objects. We then matched the objects to the person by color. For example, I printed a pictureContinue reading “Picture This: Possessive Pronouns Activity”
The Knock Knock Box
What is this? Only one of the greatest therapy tools ever! It’s a “Knock Knock Box”! One of the axioms of AVT is “Hear it before you see it.” In other words, have the child focus on audition (hearing) first, before giving them a visual cue. That’s where the Knock Knock Box comes in. YouContinue reading “The Knock Knock Box”
Unlocking the Doors to Academic Success for Children With Hearing Loss
Unlocking the Doors to Academic Success for Children with Hearing Loss! The Keys: Reading Aloud, Phonemic Awareness, and Oral Narration Today I attended an excellent seminar given by Kathryn Wilson, M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT on how parents and professionals can use phonological awareness skills to give children with hearing loss the best chanceContinue reading “Unlocking the Doors to Academic Success for Children With Hearing Loss”
Hold Your Tongue!
When you’re working with a child with a language gap, the temptation is to just pour language into them like there’s no tomorrow… and the assumption is partially correct. Constant narration of daily events and stimulation in a language rich environment is crucial to helping our children “make up for lost time” and eliminate the disparities betweenContinue reading “Hold Your Tongue!”
Play It By Ear Seminar: Day Two
AUDITORY INTERVENTION IN ACTION Joanna Smith, MS, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT and Teresa Caraway, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT (both from Hearts for Hearing)
Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig 