Warren Estabrooks - Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research and Practice

AUDITORY-VERBAL THERAPY

Science, Research, and Practice

AUDITORY-VERBAL THERAPY

Science, Research, and Practice

Warren Estabrooks,

MEd, Dip Ed Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT

Helen McCaffrey Morrison,

PhD, CCC/A (Retired), LSLS Cert. AVT

Karen MacIver-Lux,

MA, Aud(C), Reg CASLPO, LSLS Cert. AVT

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Estabrooks, Warren, editor. | Morrison, Helen McCaffrey, editor. | MacIver-Lux, Karen, editor.

Title: Auditory-verbal therapy : science, research, and practice / [edited by] Warren Estabrooks, Helen McCaffrey Morrison, Karen MacIver-Lux.

Description: San Diego, CA : Plural, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020001920 | ISBN 9781635501742 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781635501858 (ebook)

Subjects: MESH: Hearing Lossrehabilitation | Child | Auditory Perception | Language Therapymethods | Speech Therapymethods | Evidence-Based Practicemethods | Infant

Classification: LCC RF290 | NLM WV 271 | DDC 617.8dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001920

CONTENTS

Warren Estabrooks, Helen McCaffrey Morrison, and Karen MacIver-Lux

Carol Flexer and Jace Wolfe

Alice Eriks-Brophy, Hillary Ganek, and Glynnis DuBois

Carolyne Edwards

Ryan W. McCreery and Elizabeth A. Walker

Sara Neumann and Jace Wolfe

Sarah E. Warren, Tina Childress, and Olivia G. Naegle

Helen McCaffrey Morrison

Helen McCaffrey Morrison

Helen McCaffrey Morrison and Warren Estabrooks

Helen McCaffrey Morrison

Rosie Quayle, Louise Ashton, and Warren Estabrooks

Frances Clark and Warren Estabooks

Lyn Robertson and Denise Wray

Karen MacIver-Lux, Elaine Smolen, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, and Warren Estabrooks

Karen MacIver-Lux, Warren Estabrooks, and Joanna Smith

Warren Estabrooks, Louise Ashton, Rosie Quayle, Frances Clark, Karen MacIver-Lux, Sally Tannenbaum, Lisa Katz, and Dave Sindrey

Amy McConkey Robbins

Lindsay Zombek

Helen McCaffrey Morrison, Karen MacIver-Lux, Stacey R. Lim, and Carrie Norman

Karen MacIver-Lux and Stacey R. Lim

Kathryn Ritter, Denyse V. Hayward, Warren Estabrooks, Noel Kenely, and Sarah Hogan

Elizabeth M. Fitzpatrick and Suzanne P. Doucet

Jenna Voss and Susan Lenihan

Emma Rushbrooke, Monique Waite, and K. Todd Houston

Helen McCaffrey Morrison and Cheryl L. Dickson

Anita Grover, Ellie Goldblatt, and Sarah Hogan

As one of the editors of Auditory-Verbal Therapy for Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (Plural Publishing, 2016), I was fortunate to be part of a global writing team that brought the most current knowledge about Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) to practitioners and parents around the world. In subsequent years, much has changed. The world of science and research and the evolving practice trends in AVT continue to transform the dreams of parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing into reality, wherever AVT is found. In lieu of a second edition, the concept of a new book about AVT was proposed primarily for the professional community that continually contributes to the worldwide interest in AVT, but also for those anywhere wanting to know more about the exciting progress that drives this evidence-based and evidence-informed intervention for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families.

In a survey of the Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist (LSLS Cert. AVT) global community, members were asked what they wanted in this new publication. The editors listened, and subsequently for more than two years, Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice was planned, developed, and reviewed to offer the reader a blend of some updates on the book of 2016, along with many additional chapters considered highly relevant.

The inspirational work of the pioneers of AVT is woven like a tapestry throughout the pages of this book in which an international cohort of subject matter experts shares the prevailing science, research, and practice of many interrelated disciplines with Auditory-Verbal practitioners, aspiring Auditory-Verbal practitioners, teachers, special educators, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, psychologists, physicians, surgeons, administrators, students, and parents.

In AVT, parents are respected as the childs first and primary models, most enduring teachers, and most significant agents of change. The partnerships and alliances developed and nurtured by parents throughout their Auditory-Verbal journeys are built on a foundation of shared knowledge, kindness, compassion, respect, gratitude, trust, and mutual commitment. Through professional coaching and guidance, parents who choose AVT become engaged with the practitioners in ways that help them realize the outcomes they greatly desire. Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice demonstrates how these partnerships help to integrate listening, spoken language, and cognitive and social development into the daily lives of their children.

The authors here advocate that all children who are deaf or hard of hearing deserve the opportunity to acquire spoken language if that is the desired outcome of their parents. For this to happen, a purposeful plan needs to be developed, implemented, adjusted, readjusted, and evaluated throughout the familys lifelong journey.

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the number of people with hearing loss to be 466 million persons (6.1% of the worlds population), and that 34 million (7%) of these were children (aged 1 to 15 years). Alarmingly, 60% of children under 15 years of age have hearing loss due to preventable causes; this figure is higher in developing countries (75%) compared with more developed countries (49%). Despite the fact that most children who are deaf or hard of hearing can benefit from hearing technology and early intervention services, global availability of these remains scarce and inequitable. Production of hearing devices meets less than 10% of the global need, and less than 3% of the need in developing countries; intervention and schooling for children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the latter is sadly lacking. WHO estimates that unaddressed hearing loss poses an annual global cost of US$750 billion and predicts that unless action is taken, the projected number of people who are deaf or hard of hearing will grow to 630 million (44.1 million children) by 2030 and may be over 900 million (63 million children) by 2050. The mission of this book is to embrace the future with todays