(3) Audio Verbal Therapy Flashcards
T or F: Once you put hearing aid/cochlear implant, you will automatically learn how to use them
False
They do not automatically know how
___ the only sense that will access all features of speech
Audition
Through _____, we could access all acoustic properties that enables us to
(1) identify different speech sounds
(2) perceive emotions and feelings
(3) feel the different terms
Listening
Facilitates optimal acquisition of spoken language through listening by newborns, infants, toddlers and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Auditory-verbal therapy
The definition of AVT came from?
Alexander Graham Bell (AG Bell) Academy for Listening and Spoken Language
In AV, we are expecting the children to develop ____
spoken language skills and verbal communication
T or F: AVT is done through listening alone
True
T or F: AV is not dependent on the device
False
AV is VERY DEPENDENT since these devices help the children access the audiological information
Who are the focus of the AV approach?
Newborns, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
AVT promotes ____ therapy
one-on-one
It is very highly individualized
2 under focus of AVT
Hearing Perception and Active Listening
Focus of AVT is listening
T or F: AVT is dependent on the quality of auditory signal
True
This is why Hearing Perception is very important.
Note:
Good Hearing Device → Hearing Perception → Optimal Hearing → Active Listening (trained during sessions) → Acquire language, speech, communication
T or F: Primary goals of AVT is ten-fold
False
It is only THREE-FOLD
What is the 1st Primary goal of AVT?
Explain
To learn to listen and talk with conversational competence.
We train them NOT JUST to listen but to MAXIMIZE listening and respond well to different auditory information. (We want them to learn how to communicate)
What is the 2nd Primary goal of AVT?
Explain
To be included in mainstream school programs.
We want them to be in regular school so they will be exposed to typically hearing children and then be exposed to typical language.
Typically hearing children → Typical language
What is the 3rd Primary goal of AVT?
Explain
To have unlimited education and social choices.
If they are in regular school → unlimited possibilities
we want them to be FUNCTIONAL MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY.
___% considered themselves part of the hearing world
Meaning they know how to listen and use their devices well
76%
___% both
View deafness as an identity not as a disorder
21%
Approximately ___% mainstreamed by JHS
___% in secondary education
90%
94%
___% Telephone use
Using telephone was hard for them since the sound becomes mechanical already
72%
Telephone use back then is a very important indicator of____ in AVT
cochlear implant
In 2010, a longitudinal study was conducted by?
Dimity Dornan and her research team
In that 2010 longitudinal study, what did they find out?
NO significant difference between the typical hearing aid and the auditory verbal therapy.
Typical hearing aid and the deaf receiving AVT, they don’t have significant differences in speech, language and self-esteem
What is the 1st Principle of AVT? (even if it just the keyword)
Explain
Promote early diagnosis of hearing impairment in newborns, infants, toddlers, and children followed by immediate audiologic management and AV therapy.
Keyword: Promote early diagnosis
