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Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) Auditory Verbal Strategies and Techniques

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Learn 12 key strategies to support families on their listening and spoken language journey.

This learning experience will emphasize Auditory-Verbal (AV) teaching strategies to maximize a child's auditory potential from babies to school age.

Dates

Available Mar 1 to Mar 30

Course Type

Introductory Level
Self-Study Course

Audience

AuD, SLP, ToD, and Families

Registration

Open until Feb 28, 2023. Save your spot!

Overview

This learning experience will emphasize Auditory-Verbal (AV) teaching strategies to maximize a child’s auditory potential from babies to school age. Strategies targeting various auditory skill levels to develop exceptional conversational abilities will be presented utilizing videotaped segments. Integrating AV strategies in home, play, and school routines and in sharing books will be highlighted. Participants will gain practical information to facilitate spoken language development through listening in a developmental hierarchy so that children with hearing loss can become engaging conversationalists.

Course Agenda

Featuring

Teresa Caraway PhD. CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT

Teresa H. Caraway, PhD, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT, CEO of Hearing First, an educational endeavor of the Oberkotter Foundation, supports families and professionals on the Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) journey through Awareness, Education, and Community. With more than 30 years’ experience in Auditory-Verbal practice, consulting, and presenting, Dr. Caraway served as the Founding President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director of Hearts for Hearing. She served on the Board of Auditory-Verbal International and was a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.

Financial Disclosures: Dr. Caraway receives compensation from Hearing First as CEO.

Non-financial Disclosures: She is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), holds Certification of Clinical Competency (CCC) from ASHA. She is a member of AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She holds Certification of Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist.

Course Requirements

Learners who request CE credits but do not complete all course requirements will receive an email communication at the end of the course. No partial credit will be awarded.

Technology + Materials

To get the most from your learning you'll need:

  • a digital device such as a laptop or tablet with audio

  • a strong Internet connection with bandwidth minimum of 512 Kbps

  • to download the Adobe Connect app (more details here).

  • to check your browser settings (more details here).

Pre-Learning

Learning Assessment

Certificate of Completion

Learning Outcomes

  • Describe Auditory-Verbal strategies and their importance to maximize a child’s spoken language skills through learning to listen. 
  • Summarize at least 6 Auditory-Verbal teaching strategies and techniques to create a listening environment, facilitate a child’s auditory attention, and enhance a child’s auditory perception of speech. 
  • Summarize at least 6 Auditory-Verbal strategies and techniques to promote a child’s knowledge of language, facilitate spoken language and cognition, and stimulate independent thinking.
  • Describe at least 5 ways to integrate auditory-verbal teaching strategies into the child’s home, play, and social routines including sharing books with a child to facilitate his or her conversational skills.
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  • Course Communications
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Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for this learning experience. Although there’s no cost to you as a participant to register or earn credit for this course, your full commitment to participate and engage in the learning is considered your contribution.

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CE Credits Offered:

10

AG BellCEUs

1.0

ASHA CEUs

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Course Communications

Stay current with all the latest annoucements, information, and learning progress on your course’s homepage. You can also expect several emails from us during the course.

We will email you:

  • Announcements about any pre-learning or other information about the course

  • A reminder the day before a live session, when applicable

  • A course survey and information on how to claim CE credits the day after the course ends

  • In the event of course changes or cancellations

Help & Support

It’s our goal to make your learning experience both simple and straightforward so you can focus on the content and be at your best throughout your learning journey. We’re here to help, which is why we’ve compiled a list of FAQs that will make your learning experience as seamless as possible!

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Hearing First is approved by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language to offer Continuing Education Hours for Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) certification. This program has been approved for a maximum of 10 CEUs. AG Bell Academy approval of this course is based on information shared by the approved provider. Views shared by the presenter(s) may not necessarily reflect the views of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language either in part or whole.

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Registration for this Learning Experience will close on: February 28, 2023

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We're a subsidiary organization of the Oberkotter Foundation, a private foundation with a 35-year history supporting Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) opportunities for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Connect the Dots

An excellent resource for professionals to use with families, this eBook shows the logic chain that connects basic brain biology and how we learn to talk and read. Created with Dr. Carol Flexer, Ph.D., CCC/A, LSLS Cert. AVT, this eBook will help families understand each step on the path, or link in the logic chain, to help their child reach their full potential.

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