The Spoken Path, LLC.

LSLS Certified AVEd. - Auditory Verbal Educator

Listening & Spoken Language Specialists

LSLS Cert. AVT's and AVEds are professionals who are experts in the function of the auditory system and oral communication, uphold a philosophy about hearing and speaking, focus on learning spoken language through listening, and are certified in Auditory-Verbal Strategies and Techniques through the A.G. Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.

LSLS Cert. AVTs are typically Speech-Language Pathologists and LSLS Cert. AVEds are Educators; Teachers of the Deaf & Hearing Impaired. Both specialists can work in schools and/or directly with teachers and families. They are trained to provide educational and therapeutic services and follow a core set of principles to ensure quality care of the child, their hearing abilities and hearing devices, their listening skills, the development of speech and language, self-advocacy skill development, social-emotional growth, and the support of their families and teachers.

The principles are as follows:

Promote early diagnosis of hearing loss in newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children, followed by immediate audiologic management and auditory-verbal therapy.
Recommend immediate assessment and use of appropriate, state-of-the-art hearing technology to obtain maximum benefits of auditory stimulation.
Guide and coach parents to help their child use hearing as the primary sensory modality in developing listening and spoken language.
Guide and coach parents to become the primary facilitators of their child’s listening and spoken language development through active consistent participation in individualized auditory-verbal therapy.
Guide and coach parents to create environments that support listening for the acquisition of spoken language throughout the child’s daily activities.
Guide and coach parents to help their child integrate listening and spoken language into all aspects of the child’s life.
Guide and coach parents to use natural developmental patterns of audition, speech, language, cognition, and communication.
Guide and coach parents to help their child self-monitor spoken language through listening.
Administer ongoing formal and informal diagnostic assessments to develop individualized auditory-verbal treatment plans, monitor progress, and evaluate the effectiveness of the Auditory Verbal Education Educational Service plans for the child and family.
Promote education in regular schools with peers who have typical hearing and with appropriate services from early childhood onwards.

(Adapted by the AG Bell Academy -https://www.agbell.org/Families/Listening-and-Spoken-Language)

What role can a LSL Professionals play in your life?

Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) professionals play a unique role in partnering with families to guide and coach them in becoming their child’s most valuable teachers and advocates.
The professional knowledge and expertise about LSL are combined with the family’s knowledge and expertise about their child and family structure, routines, cultures, and values.
Meeting families at whichever point on their journey they are and empowering them with the knowledge, skills, strategies, and techniques to enable them to help their child’s highest potential.
LSL professionals use specific coaching strategies with parents to provide Auditory Verbal services and build knowledge, confidence, motivation, and capacity in families.
Enable families to learn to make LSL an integrated part of their everyday life, strengthening the ultimate goal of Listening and Spoken Language success.

LSL is a way of life, not just "therapy"

Dedication.

Training.

Expertise.

Determination.

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HOW MANY WORDS do kids learn in the first 4 years of life?!?

Listening Leads to Language Skills

Research tells us that children who hear 40 million words or more in the first four years of life developearly conversational skills, learn to read on time, do better in school, and have more communicationopportunities in the future.
While this word count can seem intimidating, with intention, practice, andcontinual conversations, you can help your child meet their 40 million word goal!(https://www.hearingfirst.org/b/blog/posts/help-your-child-with-hearing-loss-reach-the-40-million-word-goal)