Guest guest Posted October 24, 1998 Report Share Posted October 24, 1998 Hi , Wow, are you ever dedicated. I've come across many teachers, and we even had a teacher of the Deaf we had to replace because there was no twinkle in her eye. It was not her passion. We gave a card to our new teacher and she replied (the gift was of gardening nature) " I do like to garden, but my passion is the children I teach " . When our daughter was about 5 months on, we received the services from the E.C. Drury school for the Deaf. We had a preschool teacher come and do lessons and work with and teach us how to work with . has Mixed Hearing Loss, fused middle ear bones, therefore large conductive component. She also has Mondini Cochlea, malformed cochlea and very fluctuating audiograms - therefore sensoneural as well. She has 90db loss on the left, and 75 on the right. also had a cleft lip until age 6 months, and had an unrepaired cleft palate until 18 months and then it took several months more of oral stim before she began to communicate orally. At first we taught her signing so she could communicate with us and we could understand what she wanted without too much frustration. We increased speech therapy after the repair and the teacher of the Deaf did both sign and speech. We also did Auditory Verbal Therapy. began to respond to the speech and auditory stimulation games and techniques. We hooked up with VOICE for hearing impaired children - it's big here in our area and now we have the services running through our local school board as the demand is very high here. Another parent here who's child who is Profoundly deaf did Auditory Verbal therapy for many years, until she left elementary school and then learned to sign. She now communicates quite nicely both ways. She is now off to university. She does not have CHARGE though, and I know, as with , auditory processing challenges can come into play. But so far has responded well. still knows a lot of her signs and I will use them as reminders and we still go over the alphabet quite regularly. Sometimes with new concepts we will sign it and speak it. Strict auditory verbal therapy though involves only using the listening. It fine tunes the listening they have. Another boy who did this therapy for many years, was in the company of another boy who was also deaf and was oral but his deafness had progressed and become worse and the parent had a hard time understanding him, but the boy that has been through the auditory verbal therapy could understand everything he was saying. It's like they fine tune their listening skills. really enjoys the lessons, they are very creative. One therapist we had always dressed for the part for whatever we were teaching at the time. Visual effect was important. For home use, we have the Warren Estabrooks song book (music is big part of the therapy) and his instruction books. We also have several workbooks put out by Auditory Verbal Therapist, one in particular is a book called " Listening Games For Littles " which contains a lot of information on hearing impairment and auditory verbal approach. It contains a lot of listening games I found very rewarding. He basically says that when we put hearing aids on children who are hearing impaired we must teach them HOW to listen and interpret what they hear. They learn the value of listening. He mentions that children (as my first son) they learn the language, break the code - we didn't actually teach the rules, they learn them. Hearing impaired children need to learn to break the code first. He quotes, " Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. " has Colobomas in both eyes, and visual blind spots but otherwise is able to make use of her eyesight. Our new Teacher of the Deaf has many years teaching other needs children and worked at a Deaf-blind school in Virginia for many years. She also majored under a teacher who was deaf-blind. I can ask her for any further input? Every individual circumstance needs to be brought into perspective - no road maps here. I'm sure your expertise in this area would have ways to modify the program of visual cues, eg. touch, etc. I think this is important part of auditory verbal therapy too. I'm always open for new and creative ideas. Everyone has their own techniques and ideas - love to hear any you have to share. A BIG part of the auditory verbal approach is PARENT participation. they teach you as parents to immerse your child in language. Hope to hear from you. Pat Rittgasser Ontario, Canada ---------- > > To: CHARGEonelist > Subject: HELP! > Date: Friday, October 23, 1998 1:46 PM > > > > Hello to all, my name is Wareham and I am a Consultant with > children and young people who are deafblind here in Northern Ontario, > Canada. I usually just lurk on this list as you are all discussing such > personal issues, and many relating to American laws that just don't apply > here in Canada. But, I need help from you all if you can! > > I am looking for information on the Auditory-Verbal approach by anyone who > has actual experience with it. I looked it up on their website and it only > seems to speak of using it with hard-of-hearing/deaf, not children with > deafblindness. Have any of you tried this? Successes? Unsuccessful? What > degree of visual/auditory loss was involved with the successes and > unsuccesses? How has speech development been in a child with an unrepaired > cleft palate & /or facial palsy? Any input would be most appreciated. > > Thanks > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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