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10 principles of the LSLS AV approach
- Promote early diagnosis of hearing loss in newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children, followed by immediate audiological management and, should their families choose, auditory-verbal therapy.
- Recommend immediate assessment and use of appropriate, state-of-the-art hearing technology to obtain maximum benefits of auditory stimulation.
- Guide and coach parents to help their child use hearing as the primary sensory modality in developing listening and spoken language.
- Guide and coach parents to become the primary facilitators of their child’s listening and spoken language development through active consistent participation in individualized auditory-verbal therapy.
- Guide and coach parents to create environments that support listening for the acquisition of spoken language throughout the child’s daily activities.
- Guide and coach parents to help their child integrate listening and spoken language into all aspects of the child’s life.
- Guide and coach parents to use developmental patterns of audition, speech, language, cognition, and communication.
- Guide and coach parents to help their child self-monitor spoken language through listening.
- Administer ongoing formal and informal diagnostic assessments to develop individualized auditory-verbal treatment plans, to monitor progress and to evaluate the effectiveness of the plans for the child and family.
- Promote education in mainstream schools with peers who have typical hearing and with appropriate services from early childhood onwards.
*An Auditory-Verbal Practice requires all 10 principles.
The term 'parents' also includes grandparents, relatives, guardians and any caregivers who interact with the child.
For more information see the AG Bell website
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