Deafness
Babies and young children require early constant access to auditory information to ensure that they can develop listening and spoken language. Hearing technology such as hearing aids and cochlear implants can enable auditory brain stimulation but they will also require high quality listening environments.
Prioritising listening, using evidence based auditory verbal strategies which take a family approach can support and facilitate early listening and spoken language skills to allow children to reach their full communication and educational potential.
Top Tips
Audition First
Try to use sounds or your voice first. You can knock and wait for your child to respond before coming into a room. You can use your voice to 'call' someone before your child sees them so they link sound to meaning.
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Make Listening Interesting
Use an interesting voice to gain your child's attention, use lots of rich intonation, repetition and variation in volume to make new words interesting and easier to hear and copy.
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Qualifications and Experience
Foundation Certificate in Auditory Verbal Therapy
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Delivering listening therapy and auditory verbal based therapy as part of the Bristol Cochlear Implant Programme
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Completion of Ear Foundation Intensive (Hearing Technologies, Speech Acoustics, Executive Function, Language and Literacy, Parent Coaching)
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Certificate in Ear Foundation: TheraP Practice
BSL Level 2
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