Why choose the Auditory-Verbal approach?
Because it works!
Never before in the history of deaf education
has there been such access to hearing for children
with hearing loss. With improved technology in hearing
aids and cochlear implants, the vast majority of
these children can gain sufficient hearing potential
to learn to listen and to develop spoken language.
Technological and medical devices only give children
access to hearing. Whether children learn to use
this hearing depends on the therapy that they receive
once they have been given this potential. In the
Auditory-Verbal approach, spoken language is developed
through listening and is an ideal teaching method
for the beginning auditory learner.