Where Can I Secure Free Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) Services for my Child?

As of January 2002, the following North American public school districts, counties, or provinces are the only programs that employ certified auditory-verbal therapists on their professional staff, and AVT is provided at no charge to children who attend the schools within these areas:

USA
Huntsville/Madison Counties, Alabama
CREC Soundbridge: statewide, Connecticut
Gloucester, Massachusetts
District #287-Plymouth, Minnesota
Bergen County, New Jersey
Buncombe County - North Carolina
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Berkeley County, South Carolina
Charleston County, South Carolina
Richland District 2/Columbia, South Carolina
Salt Lake/Davis County & St. George, Utah

CANADA
Montreal, Quebec
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Mississauga/Ottawa/Toronto/Windsor, Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Saskatchewan

This is insufficient. The public sector is obligated to provide the auditory-verbal approach for children with hearing loss. Training is needed if all 50 American states and 10 Canadian provinces are to adequately serve our children. Toward that end, this trainer will provide auditory-verbal training workshops at NO consultation charge to the public school sector providing these workshops are arranged through their respective state and provincial departments of education.

Should anyone learn of another school district, state, or province that includes auditory-verbal therapists on its salaried professional staff, and that program is not yet included in this list, please contact ellen@AuditoryVerbalTraining.com so that this list may be updated.

(Please note that most Cert. AVTs within the USA are in private practice. Some of them contract with public school systems for delivery of A-V services. Because these therapists are not salaried by the public sector, they are not listed here.)

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