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#AVTChat 3: “Family Members And Auditory-Verbal Therapy”

Sound Advice routinely gets queries from families needing to lead young children into conversations with less-known family members, particularly during the holiday season. Our third #AVTChat on November 18th, 2015 addressed this issue. ICYMI: #AVTchat 3 is on #Storify! https://t.co/9rJfpMkKSV (topic: #family members and #auditoryverbaltherapy). — Caroline Carswell (@soundadvice_pro) November 24, 2015 More Reading What

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Legislation For Education Services In Ireland

Ten pieces of legislation cover education supports and hearing services in Ireland – listed here for parents, educators and lawyers re-engineering state services in a digital age. Ability: The Reality For Deaf Children In Ireland Infants born deaf, detected at birth, who get hearing-devices immediately and whose families talk with them at home, typically can start

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#AVTchat 2: “Reading Skills and Auditory-Verbal Therapy”

Reading books aloud immerses infants with digital hearing devices in words and sentences, with this early exposure giving many strong spelling and grammar skills for life. Ten books per day is typical when infants have auditory-verbal teaching, hence the topic of this chat. Second #AVTchat session On November 4th, 2015, Sound Advice hosted the second

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Cochlear Implants And Spoken Language Development

Several surveys on cochlear implants and spoken language development were published during August to October 2015, and are curated here for easy reference. Early Intervention For Deaf Children Remembering “a child learning to speak the English language must master 44 different speech sounds, cochlear implants and early intervention facilitate this choice for family life. Parents

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#AVTchat: “What Is Auditory-Verbal Therapy?”

Since 2007, Sound Advice has listed the four communication options for families whose children are deaf, to ensure families make fully informed decisions on their childrens’ behalf. Our e-book, “Teaching A Deaf Child To Hear And Speak… Perfectly!” also guides families wanting to build auditory-verbal therapy (AVT) into everyday routines for everyone’s benefit. First #AVTchat

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Infant Gaze Shifting Builds Word And Social Skills

Everyday parent-infant interactions and conversations build a child’s early language base through gaze-shifting, which scientists now know is a critical factor in babies’ ability to learn new language sounds. In turn, this builds critical vocabulary in children of preschool age. Shared Parent-Child Visual Attention Builds Language Ability Language learning happens through gaze shifting, when a

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Early Intervention Gets Illinois Children Hearing And Talking

Through a program in Illinois State, audiologists, speech therapists and teachers of the deaf train in early intervention for children to learn to hear and talk with hearing-devices. * VIDEO: Graduate program trains students to teach children with hearing issues The joint training of multi-disciplinary teams is growing in the US, as more families choose

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Parents As Change Agents In Hearing-Education

Research evidence is emerging that “parent-to-parent support, described as parents with lived experiences providing support to each other, is recognized as a distinctive and important type of support system” for families whose children have hearing issues. Read: Parent-to-Parent Support For Children With Hearing Difficulty In 2007, this was one catalyst for Irish Deaf Kids (Sound

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Dr Carol Flexer: We Hear With Our Brains

Mention the name Dr Carol Flexer, and most audiologists and speech therapists worldwide will nod in recognition. Dr Flexer, an expert in childrens’ auditory brain development, hosted a sparkling session in Dublin on May 7 for professionals ranging from those mentioned, to social workers, educators, researchers and cochlear implant support teams. Dr Flexer’s last visit to Dublin coincided

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Parent-Child Conversational Turns Build Intelligence

Twenty years ago, the thirty million word gap emerged in the US as an education issue for children starting kindergarten with language disadvantage. New research however shows the word gap is not the number of words children hear, as first thought. Read: Key To Vocabulary Gap Is Quality Of Conversations Conversational turns between a parent and child emerged as the key to

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