Auditory-Verbal Therapy is a specialised type of therapy designed to teach a
child to use the hearing provided by a hearing aid or a cochlear implant for
understanding speech and learning to talk. The child is taught to develop
hearing as an active sense so that listening becomes automatic and the child
seeks out sounds in life. Hearing and active listening become an integral part
of communication, recreation, socialization, education, and work.
- The philosophy of Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) is for deaf and hard of
hearing children to grow up in a regular learning environment, enabling them to
become independent, participating, and contributing citizens in the mainstream
society.
- AVT is a parent centered approach that encourages the use of naturalistic
conversation and the use of spoken language to communicate.
- AVT is an approach that emphasizes the use of residual hearing to help
children learn to listen, process verbal language, and to speak.
- AVT Maximizes the use of the child's aided residual hearing for the
detection of sound.
- The earliest possible identification of hearing loss with immediate fitting
with amplification, as well as prompt intervention helps to reduce the extent of
language delays commonly associated with hearing impairment.
- AVT is based on teaching parents, during their child's individual therapy
sessions to emphasize residual hearing and interact with their child using the
auditory-verbal approach.
- AVT encourages interaction and mainstreaming children from the beginning
with normal-hearing peers.
- Participation in playgroups, library story hours, and attendance in
community schools can provide children highly motivating natural language
models.
- AVT teaches the child to develop self-monitoring skills.
- The child learns to listen to his/her own voice as well as to others during
natural conversations thereby promoting natural voice quality.
- AVT follows a logical and critical set of guiding principles. The parent,
therapist, and child engage in play activities that teach the child to his or
her amplified residual hearing to learn auditory-verbal communication like
children with normal hearing.
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