Monday, August 6, 2012

AVT (Auditory-Verbal Therapy)

Every Monday afternoon, we travel to CHKD for Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT), with Miss Barb.  Today Sean had an awesome AVT session, demonstrating that the CI's are working and that he is making great progress, in such a short amount of time "hearing!"

Q: What is Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT)
A: Auditory-Verbal therapy is a specialized 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.


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