Parents Connecting With The World
Auditory-Verbal Parents in Touch Over the World
The aim of this group is build a global alliance of parents of children with hearing loss interested in Auditory-Verbal Therapy who would like to be in touch with on another to share experiences, ideas and help other parents to develop the listening and spoken language through active consistent participation of the family.
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Listen Student Receives Colorado Neurological Institute’s Hope Award
Congratulation Caitlyn!
Congratulations to 7 year old Listen graduate, Caitlyn, for being selected to receive this year's Colorado Neurological Institute’s Hope Award, given to inspiring patients who show great courage and determination in the face of a neurological condition.We are so proud of you!!
The Power to Hear & Speak
Therapy That Leads to Speaking & Hearing
Auditory –Verbal Therapy is a parent-centered approach that focuses on listening as the primary input for learning language. It promotes listening and talking with the use of hearing aids or cochlear implants so that the child can grow up in regular learning and living environments.
Music To My Ears
Can A Hearing Impaired Child Become a Musician?
Did you know that deaf children, like this one, can not only learn to listen and talk, they can learn to play musical instruments? And learning music has important benefits, even beyond imbuing a love for this form of art. Researchers have found that learning music may have unexpected benefits – like improved reading ability.
Making Pancakes
Want to find out how to make the most delicious pancakes?
Lani-Eun, a client of Listen, guides us through a step by step tutorial in how to make pancakes.
With the help of Listen's therapist Nanette Thompson, Lani-Eun has concerned her hearing impairment and developed the the ability to hear and speak with the fluidity and ease.
Click-on the speaker icon and hear how clearly Lani-Eun speaks as she tells her pancake story. Lani-Eun is profoundly deaf and has a cochlear implant.
Is Auditory-Verbal Therapy Right For My Child?
Professor Karl White is a psychologist at Utah State University, and is nationally and internationally recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on early identification and treatment of hearing loss.
He was recently invited to give a talk for TEDx. If you are familiar with the brilliant library of lectures at TED.com, you will know that these are high quality, engaging talks on all sorts of subjects; TEDx is an extension of that idea, and professor White’s talk is a wonderfully concise, precise and uncontroversial summary of how far we have come in the last 30 years in out ability to identify deafness in children while still in their birth hospital, in the strides made in technology for the deaf, and in early education for deaf children. The talk contains footage of Helen Keller, as well as video clips from the past and present of deaf children communicating. Please take about 15 minutes to review this talk - it really sums up what programs such as USU’s and Listen’s are all about. It is so uplifting, you may find yourself shedding a tear!
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Listen At A Glance
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Important Facts Relating to Oral Communication:
* At birth, a child who is deaf is already 13 weeks behind their hearing peers in the development of auditory skills.
* The first 3 years of a child’s life are the most important in auditory brain development.
* Listening and spoken language are the foundation of literacy skills and academic competencies.
* A child with hearing loss CAN attain age appropriate speech and language skills!
What Makes Listen Different?
1. Individual Therapy: Our auditory-verbal therapists work one-on-one with the child and parent/guardian to develop listening and spoken language skills based on normal stages of development resulting in spoken communication.
2. Parent Participation: In each session, parents are coached by the therapist to use listening strategies so that listening and spoken language learning goes on all day long, not just at therapy.
3. Mainstreaming: In addition to family time, the child is fully mainstreamed in all of their activities to create additional models for speech. The child will work to match what they hear others say. Mainstreaming also helps with socialization skills and it changes expectations for the child.
Information For Parents
1. It's not too early to be looking at schools for next year...hopefully, this article will help. ...click here for details...
2. Don't forget music training in your child's auditory development.
3. To help with cochlear implant costs...a list of resources. ...click here for details...
4. A great resource for supporting young children with cochlear implants from Med-El. You can download and print...click here for details...
4. This might be of interest for those contemplating a cochlear implant for their child...click here for details...
5. Advice from an expert on when is it time to consider a cochlear implant ...click here for details...
6. From Todd Houston, LSLS Cert. AVT. at the University of Akron on how outcomes should drive a parents decisions about intervention and hearing technology. ...click here for details...
7. Why it so important that children with hearing loss be properly diagnosed, receive appropriate audiological intervention and learn spoken language through listening......
"Ninety percent of a young child's knowledge is attributed to hearing background conversation. More than a third of children with even slight hearing loss, researchers estimate, will fail at least one grade." (excerpt from 'What Your Nose Knows and other amazing facts about your senses', Jennifer Kahn, Parade Magazine, July 29th, 2012).
8. The Oticon Focus on People First Place Winner in 2010 was Hayleigh Scott for creating jewelry and charms for hearing aids and cochlear implants. Check out her designs atwww.HayleighsCherishedCharms.com...they are very cool.
Quality Care For Every Child
Individual Attention, Individual Success
"We are not training the ears, we are training the mind to interpret what the ears hear." ~Doreen Pollack, one of the founders of Auditory-Verbal therapy
"With the wonderful help of the Listen Foundation, our daughter progressed in a way we didn't think was possible." ~C.S., mother of a Listen client
Listen's program supports Auditory-Verbal therapy which follows some very basic and important steps, beginning with:
~Early detection of a child's hearing loss
~Early fitting of appropriate hearing aids and/or a chochlear implant
~Individualized autiory-verbal therapy
~Total family involvement
~Mainstreaming
Listen Awarded:
The El Pomar Foundation
Award for Excellence
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The Principles of Auditory-Verbal Practice
1. Working toward the earliest possible identification of hearing loss in infants and young children, ideally in the newborn nursery. Conducting an aggressive program of audiologic management.
2. Seeking the best available sources of medical treatment and technological amplification of sound for the child who is deaf or hard of hearing as early as possible.
3. Helping the child understand the meaning of any sounds heard, including spoken language, and teaching the child's parents how to make sound meaningful to the child all day long....
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