Auditory Verbal Therapy: Guide

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Auditory Verbal Therapy
Background
Context
Evidence
Interventions
Case Studies
Auditory Verbal practice
Landscape of paediatric deafness
Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
AV Programme for families
UK case studies
History of Auditory Verbal practice
10 principles of the LSLS AV approach
The Auditory Brain
AV Training opportunities
International case studies
Global picture of AV
Translating principles into practice
AV spoken language outcomes
Resources
Teacher of the Deaf case studies
Other Approaches
How the AV approach supports communication strategies
Children with additional needs
References
Strength of Evidence
Transferability
Areas of Further Research
Editor’s comments
Online community

References

Each reference is number coded within the MESHGuide and listed below in that order.

You can download our full reference list here. 

  1. Estabrooks, W., MacIver-Lux, K., & Rhoades, E. A. (Eds.). (2016). Auditory-verbal therapy: For young children with hearing loss and their families, and the practitioners who guide them. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.
  2. Goldberg, D. M., Dickson, C. L., & Flexer, C. (2010). AG Bell academy certification program for listening and spoken language specialists: Meeting a world-wide need for qualified professionals. The Volta Review, 110(2), 129.
  3. Hitchins, A. R., & Hogan, S. C. (2018). Outcomes of early intervention for deaf children with additional needs following an Auditory Verbal approach to communication. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 115, 125-132.
  4. Rhoades, E. A., & Duncan, J. (Eds.). (2010). Auditory-verbal practice: Toward a family-centered approach. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas.
  5. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2019). Cochlear implants for children and adults with severe to profound deafness [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/indevelopment/gid-ta10362/documents
  6. Davis, A., Bamford, J., Wilson, I., Ramkalawan, T., Forshaw, M., & Wright, S. (1997). A critical review of the role of neonatal hearing screening in the detection of congenital hearing impairment. Health Technology Assessment, 1(10), 1-176.
  7. Consortium for Research into Deaf Education (CRIDE). (2017). 2017 UK-wide summary CRIDE report on 2017 survey on educational provision for deaf children. Retrieved from https://www.ndcs.org.uk/information-and-support/being-deaf-friendly/information-for-professionals/research-and-data/consortium-for-research-into-deaf-education-cride-reports/
  8. Clark, S. (2007). NHS newborn hearing screening programme centre annual report 2006/7 [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://www.batodfoundation.org.uk/docs/downloads/earlysupport/Box%201.3%20England-stats-report.pdf
  9. Holden-Pitt, L., & Diaz, J. A. (1998). Thirty years of the Annual Survey of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children & Youth: A glance over the decades. American Annals of the Deaf, 143(2), 71-76.
  10. Stedler-Brown, A., & Yoshinaga-Itano, C. (1994). FAMILY Assessment: A multidisciplinary evaluation tool. In: J. Roush & N. Matkin (Eds.), Family centred assessment and intervention: Infants and toddlers with hearing Loss (pp. 133–161). Baltimore, MD: York Press.
  11. Fortnum, H., Davis, A., Butler, A., & Stevens, J. (1997). Health service implications of changes in aetiology and referral patterns of hearing impaired children in Trent 1985- 1993: Executive summary and synopsis. Nottingham, NG: MRC, Institute of Hearing Research.
  12. Ching, T. Y. C., & Wong, C. L. (2017).  Factors influencing child development outcomes. In E. A. Rhoades & J. Duncan (Eds.), Auditory-verbal practice: Family-centred early intervention (pp. 103–117).  Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas.
  13. Yoshinaga-Itano, C., Sedey, A. L., Coulter, D. K., & Mehl, A. L. (1998). Language of early-and later-identified children with hearing loss. Pediatrics, 102(5), 1161-1171.
  14. Cole, E. B., & Flexer, C. (2016). Children with hearing loss: Developing listening and talking, birth to six (3rd ed.). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.
  15. Flexer, C., & Rhoades, E. A. (2016). Hearing, listening, the brain, and auditory-verbal therapy. In W. Estabrooks, K. MacIver-Lux, & E. A. Rhoades, E. A. (Eds.), Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (pp. 23-33). San Diego: Plural Publishing.
  16. Sharma, A. (2013). Post-implantation developmental neuroplasticity. Plenary session presented at the 11th European Symposium on Paediatric Cochlear Implantation (ESPCI 2013), Turkey, Istanbul.
  17. Sharma, A., Nash, A. A., & Dorman, M. (2009). Cortical development, plasticity and re-organization in children with cochlear implants. Journal of Communication Disorders, 42(4), 272-279.
  18. Suskind, D., Suskind, B., & Lewinter-Suskind, L. (2015). Thirty million words: Building a child's brain. New York, NY: Dutton Adult.
  19. Sharma, A., & Glick, H. (2016). Cross-modal re-organization in clinical populations with hearing loss. Brain sciences, 6(1), 4.
  20. Hogan, S., Stokes, J., White, C., Tyszkiewicz, E., & Woolgar, A. (2008). An evaluation of auditory verbal therapy using the rate of early language development as an outcome measure. Deafness & Education International, 10(3), 143-167.
  21. Hogan, S., Stokes, J., & Weller, I. (2010). Language outcomes for children of low-income families enrolled in auditory verbal therapy. Deafness & Education International, 12(4), 204-216.
  22. Dornan, D. I., Hickson, L., Murdoch, B., & Houston, T. (2007). Outcomes of an auditory-verbal program for children with hearing loss: A comparative study with a matched group of children with normal hearing. The Volta Review, 107(1).
  23. Dornan, D., Hickson, L., Murdoch, B., & Houston, T. (2009). Longitudinal study of speech perception, speech, and language for children with hearing loss in an auditory-verbal therapy program. The Volta Review, 109(2-3), 61-85.
  24. Fulcher, A., Purcell, A. A., Baker, E., & Munro, N. (2012). Listen up: children with early identified hearing loss achieve age-appropriate speech/language outcomes by 3 years-of-age. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 76(12), 1785-1794.
  25. Rhoades, E. A., & Chisholm, T. H. (2000). Global language progress with an auditory-verbal approach for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Volta Review, 102(1), 5-24.
  26. Dornan, D., Hickson, L., Murdoch, B., Houston, T., Constantinescu, G. (2010). Is auditory-verbal therapy effective for children with hearing loss? The Volta Review, 110(3), 361-387.
  27. Percy-Smith, L., Tønning, T. L., Josvassen, J. L., Mikkelsen, J. H., Nissen, L., Dieleman, E., ... & Cayé-Thomasen, P. (2017). Auditory verbal habilitation is associated with improved outcome for children with cochlear implant. Cochlear Implants International, 19(1), 38-45.
  28. Lim, S. R., & Hogan, S. C. (2016). Research findings for AV Practice. In E. A. Rhoades & J. Duncan (Eds.), AUDITORY-VERBAL PRACTICE: Family-Centered Early Intervention (pp. 52-64). Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas.
  29. Estabrooks, W., MacIver-Lux, K., Rhoades, E. A. & Lim, S. R. (2016). Auditory-verbal therapy: An overview. In W. Estabrooks, K. MacIver-Lux, & E. A. Rhoades, E. A. (Eds.), Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (pp. 1-21). San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing.

 

Further Reading​ 

Telepractice

Akamoglu, Y., Meadan, H., Pearson, J. N., & Cummings, K. (2018). Getting connected: Speech and language pathologists’ perceptions of building rapport via telepractice. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 30(4), 569-585.

Behl, D. D., Blaiser, K., Cook, G., Barrett, T., Callow-Heusser, C., Brooks, B. M., & White, K. R. (2017). A multisite study evaluating the benefits of early intervention via telepractice. Infants & Young Children, 30(2), 147-161.

Blaiser, K. M., Behl, D., Callow-Heusser, C., & White, K. R. (2013). Measuring costs and outcomes of tele-intervention when serving families of children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing. International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 5(2), 3.

Havenga, E., Swanepoel, D. W., Le Roux, T., & Schmid, B. (2017). Tele-intervention for children with hearing loss: A comparative pilot study. Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 23(1), 116-125.

McCarthy, M., Leigh, G., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2020). Comparison of Caregiver Engagement in Telepractice and In-person Family-Centered Early Intervention. The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 25(1), 33-42.

McCarthy, M., Leigh, G., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2019). Telepractice delivery of family-centred early intervention for children who are deaf or hard of hearing: A scoping review. Journal of telemedicine and telecare, 25(4), 249-260.

Freckmann, A., Hines, M., & Lincoln, M. (2017). Clinicians’ perspectives of therapeutic alliance in face-to-face and telepractice speech–language pathology sessions. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(3), 287-296.

Hines, M., Lincoln, M., Ramsden, R., Martinovich, J., & Fairweather, C. (2015). Speech pathologists’ perspectives on transitioning to telepractice: What factors promote acceptance?. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare, 21(8), 469-473.

Hines, M., Bulkeley, K., Lincoln, M., Cameron, S., & Dudley, S. (2017). Telepractice for children with complex disability: Guidelines for quality allied health services.

 

AVT

Hearing First. (2020). Entrain the Brain: Optimise Listening and Spoken Language Outcomes for Children with Hearing Loss. https://f.hubspotusercontent10.net/hubfs/4253267/downloadable-documents/HF_Whitepaper_EntrainBrain_Final.pdf

Thomas ES, Zwolan TA. Communication Mode and Speech and Language Outcomes of Young Cochlear Implant Recipients: A Comparison of Auditory-Verbal, Oral Communication, and Total Communication. Otol Neurotol. 2019;40(10):e975-e983. doi:10.1097/MAO.0000000000002405

 

‘Landscape of paediatric references’

1. Clark, S. (2007) NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme Centre Annual Report 2006/07 [PDF file]. (pp. 10).

2. Consortium for Research into Deaf Education. (2019) CRIDE report on 2019 survey on educational provision for deaf children

[PDF file]. Retrieved from https://www.ndcs.org.uk/information-and-support/being-deaf-friendly/info...

research-and-data/consortium-for-research-into-deaf-education-cride-reports/ (Accessed 23 November 2021)

3. British Deaf Association. (2015). Fast Facts about the Deaf Community. Retrieved from https://bda.org.uk/fast-facts-about-thedeaf-

community/ (Accessed 23 November 2021)

4. Cole, E. B., & Flexer, C. (2015). Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking, Birth to Six. Dan Diego

CA: Plural Publishing.

5. Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2021). Three Principles to Improve Outcomes for Children and Families,

2021 Update. https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/three-early-childhood-deve...

outcomes/ (Accessed 23 November 2021)

6. Bleses, D., Makransky G., Dale, P., HØJEN, A. and Ari, B., 2016. Early productive vocabulary predicts academic

achievement 10 years later. Applied Psycholinguistics, 37(6), pp.1461-1476.

7. Department For Education, 2011. Investigating the role of language in children’s early educational outcomes. [PDF file]

Retrieved from https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa...

DFE-RR134.pdf (Accessed 23 November 2021)

8. Suskind, D., Suskind, B., & Lewinter-Suskind, L. (2015). Thirty million words: Building a child’s brain. New York, NY: Dutton Adult.

9. Sharma, A., & Glick, H. (2016). Cross-modal re-organization in clinical populations with hearing loss. Brain sciences, 6(1), 4.

10. World Health Organisation (2021). World Reports on Hearing. Retrieved from:

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/world-report-on-hearing (Accessed 23 November 2021)

11. Wilkins, M., & Ertmer, D. (2002). Introducing young children who are deaf or hard of hearing to spoken language: Child’s Voice,

an Oral School. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 33(3), 198-204.

12. Hoffman, M. F., Cejas, I., Quittner, A. L., & CDaCI Investigative Team. (2016). Comparisons of longitudinal trjectories of social

competence: Parent ratings of children with cochlear implants versus hearing peers. Otology & Neurotology, 37(2), 152-159.

13. Yoshinago-Itano, C., Sedley, A. L., Coulters, D. K., Mehl, A. L. (1998). Language of early and later identified children with

hearing loss. Pediatrics, 102, 1161-1171.

14. Ching, T.Y.C., Dillon, H., Button, L., Seeto, M., Van Buynder, P., Marnane, V., Cupples, L., and Leigh, G. (2017) Pediatrics,

140 (3) e20164274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-4274

15. Moeller, M. P., & Tomblin, J. B. (2015). An introduction to the Outcomes of Children with Hearing Loss study. Ear and hearing,

36, 4S-13S.

16. Herman, R., Roy, P., & Kyle, F. E. (2017) Reading and Dyslexia in Deaf Children [PDF file]. Retrieved from https:/www.city.ac.uk/__

data/assets/pdf_file/0011/382529/Reading-and-Dyslexia-in-Deaf-Chidren-Herman-Roy-Kyle 2017-FINAL.pdf

(Accessed 23 November 2021)

17. National Deaf Children’s Society. (2021) NDCS note on Department for Education figures on attainment for deaf children in 2020

(England). Retrieved from https://www.ndcs.org.uk/media/6917/ndcs_note_on_attainment_data_2020.pdf

(Accessed 8 November 2021)

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