Service offered at the Auditory-Verbal Communication Center

Services

1. Weekly Parent Guidance AVT sessions

Listening and Spoken Language A-V therapy for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school age children. Parents are guided to be full participants in the sessions.

2. International A-V Consulting

Experience in establishing early intervention programming and training staff at speech and language centers worldwide.

3. Professional Training for the Listening and Spoken Language Certification in AVT from the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Washington, DC.

LOCAL and WORLDWIDE
Speech -Language Pathologists, audiologists, and teachers of the deaf work with the Watsons according to the requirements set forth from the AGBell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language. Visit www.agbell.org to see the specifications.

Each contract for supervision is written according to the needs of the AVCC Intern.
Local professionals visit the AVCC office for consultation, module teaching, and observation. DVDs of their therapy sessions are mailed for critique. Critiques are e-mailed back to AV Intern and discussion of therapy recommendations are made in person or on the phone.
Distance Mentoring is offered for professionals via skype, e-mail, telephone, facebook, and regular mail. Weekly contact keeps the AV Intern in close contact for the process.

4. School consultation

Evaluations of child's current programming participation in a team approach for managing children who are deaf/hard of hearing in the mainstream. See list of over 50 school systems that have paid for AVCC services.

5. School Inclusion sessions

Weekly teaching in the classroom and individual therapy for listening and spoken language development in the child's home school.

6. Adult Therapy

Aural Rehabilitation sessions to improve use of hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, use of the telephone, and general communication.

7. Presentations

Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapists® Jim and Lea Watson are prepared to speak on a variety of topics concerning Listening and Spoken Language Development, Parent Guidance, and all aspects of Auditory-Verbal parent guidance therapy for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Worldwide speakers at conferences, universities, and parent groups, topics include:

Child Development
Hearing Science and Audiology
History and Philosophy of AVT and Spoken Language for children who are deaf/hard of hearing
Auditory-Verbal Techniques
Cochlear Implants
Spoken Language Acquisition
Education and mainstreaming children who are deaf and hard of hearing
Parenting Skills - Behavior Strategies