LSL Auditory Verbal Strategies and Techniques

Listening & Spoken Language

Introductory

Self-Study

10hr 5min

Continuing Education

10.00 AG Bell CEUs
1.00 ASHA CEUs

Register until Dec. 30, 2026

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Course Overview
Course Outline

Course 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 Timeline

30 Days

Primary Audience

LSL Professionals

Key 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.

Course Outline

AV Strategies and Techniques are Brain Building Tools
2h 30m
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Learning Content
1h
- Introduction and Welcome Video | 5m 44s
- JJ Singing Video 00:01:08 Building a Child’s Brain Video | 12m 01s
- Reading and Writing Float on a Sea of Talk Video | 8m 25s
- Speech Banana Video | 1m 34s
- Listening Must Be Taught Video | 17m 01s
- Ask Me Anything: Facebook Live with Author's LSL Moms Lydia Denworth | 15m 37s
- Corresponding Session Copy - 623 words
Live Session Recording
1h 30m
Tools of the AV Trade
2h 30m
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Learning Content
1h
- The Importance of Hearing for Early Brain Development with Dr Carol Flexer | 15m 40s
- The AV Brain Building Toolbox: Three AV Strategies/Techniques Video | 23m 56s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 1m 42s
- Adding More Tools to the Toolbox: Three More AV Strategies/Techniques Video | 15m 39s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 2m 36s
- Specific Tools for Specific Purposes | 6m 58s
- Corresponding Session Copy - 448 words
Live Session Recording
1h 33m
Tools of the AV Trade Continued
2h 30m
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Learning Content
1h
- And Now We Have 10 Tools in Our AV Toolbox Video | 15m 26s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 1m 22s
- Let's Add 2 More and Make it A Dozen AV Strategies and Techniques Video | 8m 10s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 1m 59s
- Let’s Use Our AV Tools to Create Listening & Language Learning Opportunities Every Day in Every Way Video | 16m 13s
- Corresponding Session Copy - 532 words
Live Session Recording
1h 30m
Powering Up our AV Brain Building Tools
2h 30m
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Learning Content
1h
- Implementing AV Strategies and Techniques to Support Development of Theory of Mind (ToM) Skills Video | 18m 23s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 2m 50s
- Open a Book, Fall into a Conversation Video 00:10:04 Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video | 1m 15s
- Supplemental Intervention Session Example Video 2 | 2m 06s
- Building Blocks: Using Your AV Brain Building Tools Video | 8m 37s
- Corresponding Session Copy - 722 words
Live Session Recording
1h 30m

Featuring

Teresa Caraway
PhD, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT
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Teresa H. Caraway, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT, CEO of the Oberkotter Foundation and Hearing First, supports families and professionals on the Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) journey through Awareness, Education, and Community. With more than 35 years’ experience in Auditory-Verbal practice, consulting, and presenting, Dr. Caraway is the Founding CEO of Hearing First, and 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.

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