Areas of support include
- Helping babies/children who are deaf or hard of hearing learn to listen and speak
- Understanding the diagnosis of hearing loss
- Development of receptive and expressive language, speech and cognition through play
- Transition support to child care, preschool and school
- Attachment
- Supporting parent to parent connection
- Developing strong pre-literacy
- Developing social and pragmatic skills
- Audiological management
How they do this
- Individual therapy
- Small groups
- Regional and remote services and telehealth (Skype)
- Working alongside parents/carers and key people in the child’s life
- Clinic-based and within community settings including home
- Education and training to teachers and support staff
Tools and programs
- Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT)
- Family centred practice
- Parent guidance and coaching
- Language Analysis Environmental System (LENA)™
- Standardised assessment protocol in line with First Voice, a national body advocating for world-class early intervention practices for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
- Observational and standardised assessments
- Family conferences
- Intensive weeks for regional and remote families
- Articulation therapy approaches
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