Professionals – Page 21 – Elizabeth A. Rosenzweig

AG Bell Symposium 2009: Saturday Sessions

Bright and early Saturday morning, we braved the rain to make it to Day Two of the Symposium… and it was well worth it! Here is what I learned…

AG Bell Symposium 2009: Friday Sessions

GENERAL SESSION: Development of Executive Control in Preschool Children (Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

SMIRPS

When you’re speaking with a small child — any child, with or without a hearing loss — remember to use SMIRPS:

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!

Eating an Elephant

There’s an old joke that goes… Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time!

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”

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”

Print Skills, Writing, and Spelling

A continuation of my notes from a presentation by Kathryn Wilson, MS, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT on January 22-23, 2009 at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, entitled “Unlocking the Doors to Academic Success for Children with Hearing Loss! The Keys: Reading Aloud, Phonemic Awareness, Oral Narration”.