What does it mean to GUIDE and coach parents?

Guidance offered for:
Understanding
Informing
Directing
Evaluating for appropriate expectations


Parent guidance is a foundation from which the family develops their own way.


GUIDE:
Parent, you are your child's Primary teacher. AVTherapist is only a coach.
parents, please be coachable....

Encourage your full family's involvement -grandparents
Read and embrace the 10 Principles of Auditory-Verbal Practice
Parents, you can adjust to your baby’s sensitivities

UNDERSTAND:
Let's talk and listen to each other. Let's share out thoughts about parenting, deafness, hearing....

Other parents can help:

Talking Twenty Four Seven
by Kerry Dowling
www.talkingtwentyfourseven.blogspot.com


"Welcome to Holland"
by Emily Perl Kingsley

Who Moved My Cheese?
By Spencer Johnson

The Power of the Powerless
by Christopher deVinck

If A Tree Falls
by Jennifer Rosner

Perfectly Imperfect
by Lee Woodruff

"Narrate your own story"
by YOU

Choices in Deafness Edited by Sue Schwartz
Auditory-Verbal Practice Edited by Warren Estabrooks


INFORM
We already know a lot about:

Aspects of deafness and hearing loss
Aspects of development - speech, language, listening, cognition, communication
Aspects of parenting - Love and Logic Pearls of Wisdom

We don't know everytihng, but we can help each other learn when we share information.

DIRECT
We can direct you in the:
Auditory-Verbal Therapy process

We can direct you to other sources of information:
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc
A G Bell State chapters
parent groups


EXPECTATIONS:
We hear with our brains! Auditory-verbal info to the brain first!
Parents are asked to do the Ling Sounds every day and report how their child responds
Create a listening attitude
BE Auditory all day long
3 Es – Expect them to hear. make it as Easy as possible. Enhance listening skills in all they do.
Read 10 Books a day.
Keep an Experience Book!