Auditory Training/Auditory Verbal Theraphy For Cochlear Implant

This is a hierarchy of treatment with auditory training, beginning with a child that has only recently been aided or implanted. In this child just need to hear and react to sounds

Cochlear implant is a surgically implanted neuro prosthetic device that provides a sense of sound to a person with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss. Cochlearimplant bypass the normal acoustic process instead replacing it with electrical hearing. Sound sensation comes from the sound that is converted into electrical signals directly stimulate the auditory nerve.

Auditory Verbal therapy is a highly specialist early intervention programme which equips parents with the skills to maximize their deaf child speech and language development. The Auditory Verbal approach stimulates auditory brain development and enables deaf children with hearing aids and cochlear implants to make sense of the sound relayed by their devices. As a result, children with hearing loss are better able to develop listening and spoken language skills to maximize their child speech and language development.

The Auditory Verbal approach stimulates auditory brain development and enables deaf children with hearing aids and cochlear implants to make sense of the sound relayed by their devices. As a result, children with hearing loss are better able to develop listening and spoken language skills, with the aim of giving them the same opportunities and an equal start in life as hearing children.