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

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme

In the UK there has been substantial investment in the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP).  The NHSP was introduced first in England from 2001, extending to Scotland in 2003, Wales in 2004 and Northern Ireland in 2005.  This roll out was based on the premise that outcomes for deaf children could be improved by early identification of hearing loss and effective, early intervention (Yoshinaga-Itano, Sedey, Coulter, & Mehl, 199813; Davis et al., 19976).

The NHS provides an overview of screening tests on their website.

In 2013, a performance report on the first seven years of the programme was published.  This illustrated that the NHSP had improved continuously, identifying bilateral permanent childhood Hearing Loss (PCHL) in about 1/1000 children.  The report also showed that the age of identification and management was well within the first six months of life.  However scope remained for further improvement with respect to initiating entry into follow up.

The last statistical report for England was published in 2008

Newborn hearing screening: standards data report April 2017 to March 2018

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