Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them 2016 Original PDF
Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them provides a comprehensive examination of auditory-verbal therapy (AVT), from theory to evidence-based practice.
Key features:
- Detailed exploration of AVT, including historical perspectives and current research that continue to drive clinical practice
- Essential use of hearing aids, cochlear implants, and other implantable devices, and additional hearing technologies in AVT
- Goals of the AV practitioner and strategies used in AVT to develop listening, talking, and thinking
- Effective parent coaching strategies in AVT
- Blueprint of the AVT session
- Step-by-step AVT session plans for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and early school-age children
- Critical partnerships of the family and the AV practitioner with the audiologist, speech-language pathologist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, hearing resource teacher, and psychologist
- Families Journeys in AVT from 12 countries around the world