AUDITORY VERBAL TRAINING - WORKSHOPS - CONSULTATIONS - MENTORING

Bring Sound Waves to Your Community!!

For more than 30 years, Ellen Rhoades has served as a highly experienced AV therapist, director, supervisor, trainer, and coordinator.  Today, she specializes in training Auditory Verbal Therapists and the families of hearing impaired children.  Now you can bring Ellen Rhoades to your community for instructional seminars, training workshops, program evaluations, or family consultations.  We invite you to browse these pages and consider whether the Auditory Verbal Approach is right for you.

The AV Approach.....

The Auditory Verbal Approach has been proven to be a viable communication option for children with significant hearing loss. All over the world, these children have been learning how to hear and speak. Now, with the advent of cochlear implants for profoundly deaf children and with this consultant’s landmark language research findings, Auditory Verbal development has become ‘the buzz word’ for parents of hard-of-hearing and deaf children.

Today, there is no need for our children to be deaf. Today, with all the hearing technology available to us, implementing the Auditory Verbal Approach should be the first option for our children. Today, we have the power to bring the Auditory Verbal Approach to all of our clinics, public school systems and universities. Today, we can make the Auditory Verbal Approach accessible for every deaf child!

Take advantage of the opportunity to learn how to implement the Auditory Verbal Approach right at your own location.

	Use a fast-track Auditory Verbal program based on this consultant’s Developmental AVTSM "road map" for infants, preschoolers, elementary school aged kids.
	Teach newly implanted teens and adults how to use their newfound hearing.
	Develop a telephone training program based on the Auditory Verbal Approach.
	Implement successfully proven Auditory Verbal activities based on sound objectives, strategies, and techniques.
	Incorporate the concept of accountability based on this consultant’s language assessment protocol.
	Enable deaf children to develop "a listening attitude" that permits auditory-only speech discrimination scores of at least 70%.
	Integrate hearing into deaf children’s personalities so that their rate of language development is accelerated, thereby becoming linguistically competent at a level commensurate with their normally hearing peers.

Just what is this AV communication option?

It is truly integrating hearing into the child’s personality so that the child becomes assimilated into our community. It is both embracing and fostering a lifestyle that enables children, in spite of their deafness, to achieve their rightful places in our society. It is a means by which children with significant hearing loss are taught how to hear, how to listen, how to understand the language of their normally hearing parents, and how to effectively speak that same language. It is an approach enabling us to ensure that all of our hearing impaired children attain their civil rights to language and literacy. It is developing effective partnerships between professionals and parents as well as strengthening the family unit.

It is obviously so much more than a method or a bunch of techniques and strategies. The AV communication option significantly alters the concept and practice of school programs for deaf children as they’ve existed for the past 150 years. The deaf child is no longer relegated to a world of silence and illiteracy.

Click here to hear a message from Ellen about the Auditory-Verbal Approach.

THE AUDITORY-VERBAL APPROACH as defined by Ellen A. Rhoades, Ed.S., Cert. AVT: A systematic empirically-based positive family-focused, child-driven, objective-oriented intervention that is constructed on a naturalistic cognitively-oriented auditory comprehension-based developmental model.   © 1999-2003, Ellen A. Rhoades, Ed.S., Cert. AVT

 

Occasionally a group will open up part of its AV training workshop for public attendance. When this happens, we'll include info about it on our Open Workshops page.