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Auditory-verbal therapy is a method for teaching deaf children to listen and speak using hearing technology (e.g. hearing aids, auditory implants (such as cochlear implants) and assistive listening devices (ALDs) (such as radio aids)). Auditory-verbal therapy emphasizes listening and seeks to promote the development of the auditory brain to ...
A 2019 review found sensory integration therapy to be effective for autism spectrum disorder. [63] Another study from 2018 backs up the intervention for children with special needs, [64] Additionally, the American Occupational Therapy Association supports the intervention. [65]
Cued speech is a visual system of communication used with and among deaf or hard-of-hearing people. It is a phonemic-based system which makes traditionally spoken languages accessible by using a small number of handshapes, known as cues (representing consonants), in different locations near the mouth (representing vowels) to convey spoken language in a visual format.
In school-age children, lipreading of familiar closed-set words such as number words can be readily elicited. [28] Individual differences in lip-reading skill, as tested by asking the child to 'speak the word that you lip-read', or by matching a lip-read utterance to a picture, [29] show a relationship between lip-reading skill and age. [30] [31]
School kids petting a deaf therapy dog wearing a blue harness in front of a \"Welcome Back\" sign. Image credits: Cole the Deaf Dog- The Team Cole Project / Facebook.
A small percentage of these families learn sign language to varying levels and their children will have access to a visual language at varying levels of fluency. [33] Many others choose to pursue an oral mode of communication with their children with use of technology (such as hearing aids or cochlear implants) and speech therapy. [28]
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