Speech Language Therapy, Aural Habilitation
A SLP may work with you and your child on a weekly basis to provide speech, language and listening therapy, often referred to as aural (re) habilitation. The purpose of aural (re) habilitation is to help children develop their listening skills, using their hearing device, in order to understand and use spoken language. There are multiple approaches to facilitating oral language development. Below are a few of these approaches:
- Auditory-Verbal Therapy
- is a methodology in which spoken language development in children with hearing loss is emphasized through listening
- Hanen
- is a methodology that focuses on teaching parents effective techniques to facilitate language development
- Ongoing therapy
- assists a child in making the most of the hearing he or she receives from his or her hearing aid or cochlear implant, moving through the sequence of auditory development from detection to comprehension. Some children with hearing loss require intervention to work on specific speech sounds that cannot be targeted through listening alone, just as children without hearing loss may need(.......?)
- Short-term diagnostic therapy
- helps to establish a baseline for the child’s auditory and communication skills in a therapeutic environment
- Short-term aural (re) habilitation
- post cochlear implantation can enable children to establish a solid foundation in listening with the implant, with the goal of preparing them to benefit from school-based services that may or may not yet be in place. This short-term auditory training can be especially beneficial with children who receive second-side cochlear implantation.
