What is Auditory Verbal Therapy?
Auditory Verbal Therapy is the application and management of technology, strategies, techniques, and procedures to enable children who are hearing impaired to learn listen and understand spoken language in order to communicate through speech. AVT is diagnostic, with each session being an ongoing evaluation of the child and the parent's progress.
The children learn to use their amplified hearing (hearing aids) or Cochlear Implant to listen to their own voice, the voice of others, and the sounds of their environment in order to understand spoken communication and engage in meaningful conversations.
AVT follows and encourages natural language and speech development; the parents and therapists help the child integrate hearing, language, and spontaneous speech into the child's personality. Through play and active involvement in everyday in everyday situations, listening can become a way of life, and gives the child the full potential use of residual hearing.