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Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist, Speech-Language Pathologist, International consultant for LSLS training and children with hearing loss, husband-wife AVCC team, mother of three amazing individuals.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Training in Auditory-Verbal Therapy

Listening and Spoken Language Specialists Jim and Lea Watson offer Professional Training for the Listening and Spoken Language Certification in Auditory-Verbal Therapy according to LSLS Academy of 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 http://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.

News?
The first LSLS Cert AVT in the state of Maine trained at AVCC.

The Watsons spent a year 2006 -07 consulting and training professionals in AVT at the Cora Barclay Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. www.corabarclay.com.au

In 2009 three professionals are currently receiving training from AVCC - Australia, Hong Kong, and Massachusetts.

A graduate student in Speech-Language pathology from Utah State who is training in LSLS AVT visited the AVCC office in January 2009.

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