Strategies for Listening, Talking, and Thinking AVT PDF

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Strategies for Listening, Talking, and Thinking AVT Strategy refers to a plan You have to have a plan in order to go into a session and be successful Techniques: ways that we target a particular skill, used for us to execute our specific strategy Goals: 1. Create a Listening Environment Strategies: • Control the environment, set the state • Speak within earshot; lean to the child’s better hearing side 2. Facilitate Auditory Attention Strategies: • Present a look of concentration with a verbal prompt • Point to the ear and say, “I heard something!” • Use auditory hooks • Use visual distractors • Prepare the child to “listen first and last” - (auditory sandwich) 3. Enhance Auditory Perception of Speech Strategies: • Speak parentese • Engage in vocal play • Associate sounds with objects and words • Whisper • Sing • Stress selected syllables, words, and phrases 4. Promote Knowledge of Language Strategies: • Focus on the ‘knowing’ rather that the ‘using’ • Take turns • Imitate child’s early vocalizations • Verbalize in synchrony with movement • Speak the language from child’s angle • Talk before, during, and after the action • Pause for grammatical spaces or emphasis • Transition beyond comfort zone • Connect the familiar to the unfamiliar • Recast, expand, and expatiate on child’s words • Emphasize actions, relations, and attributes • Contrast the meaning of words 5. Facilitate Spoken Language & Cognition Strategies: • Lean forward with expectant look • Signal with objects

• Provide self-statements • Ask, “What did you hear?” • Promote auditory-verbal closure • Wait for child’s response • Ask stage-appropriate questions • Scaffold for language production 6. Stimulate Independent Learning Strategies: • Pretend objects are something else • Create the unexpected • Talk with imaginary friends • Accept and make mistakes Parent Coaching Strategies: 1. Have Conversations & Share Information 2. Collaborate in Goal Setting & Activity Planning 3. Demonstrate 4. Guide Practice with Feedback 5. Provide Video Feedback AVT: • • • •

1-4 AVT sessions Short term session should target audition, cognition, etc. (all 5 domains) What are parent goals I want to target this week? Auditory verbal therapy session cycle • First Step: State the objectives to the parents • Second Step: Explain the activity • Third Step: Demonstrate the activity (1-3 times) • Fourth Step: Parent demonstration • Fifth Step: Evaluate the overall effectiveness that came from that activity...