Clear Speech in Your Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child
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In this essential eighteenth episode, Shefali Shah takes us on an auditory journey, sharing authentic sound bites from her own AVT practice. We listen in as infants and toddlers progress through the natural stages of pre-speech: from early vocal play, to babbling, jargon, imitation and first words as they thrive in environments that support their listening, learning and talking.
The episode offers a rich understanding of how listening, language, and speech are closely intertwined. Talking is the outcome of a consistent period of listening time. Language and speech development follow a universal hierarchy in which listening precedes speech. Speech sounds too follow a natural sequence, with early emerging speech sounds invariably preceding and preparing for the emergence of later developing sounds.
A couple in Shefali’s online practice, shares their delight in the emergence of intelligible speech in their cochlear-implanted toddler as they discover that there is a universal order to the production of speech sounds and learn what to expect and how to monitor and support their daughter’s age-appropriate speech development.
Clear speech is the result of diligent preparation.
This is The Sound Steps Podcast.
🎧 Top Tips from Episode 18
- Clear speech emerges from clear listening: Ensure your child has optimal access to sound with well-functioning hearing devices.
- Talking precedes listening: Talking is the outcome of a consistent period of listening time.
- Train your child’s listening: The presence of hearing loss means that your child needs to be trained to listen, even with modern hearing technology.
- Your baby will talk when she is ready to talk: The simple and daily acts of swallowing and chewing strengthen and prepare your baby’s oral mechanism for speech.
- Pre-Speech development: Vocalisations, babbling and Jargon precede first words.
- Follow the natural stages of development of Speech sounds: There is a universal order to the development of speech sounds.
Time Stamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:10 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents
00:01:25 Choosing Auditory-Verbal Therapy for your deaf or hard of hearing child
00:01:50 AVT facilitates age-appropriate development
00:02:02 Abundant choices open up through AVT
00:02:47 Early identification and the fitting of early and optimal amplification.
00:02:53 A life free of limitations
00:03:06 Introduction to this episode
00:03:42 Show notes, Top tips and Time Stamps
00:03:54 Links and contact details
00:04:00 Resources
00:04:45Development in infants with typical hearing
00:05:19 We talk as we hear
00:06:34 Talking presupposes listening
00:09:39 Your baby will talk when she is ready to talk
00:09:56 Speech readiness
00:11:40 Pre-speech development
00:13:29 Vocalisations
00:14:10 Babbling
00:15:01 Vocalisation Vs Babbling
00:15:27 Delayed or absent babbling
00:15:53 Babbling develops with social interaction
00:17:18 Jargon
00:20:08 First words
00:20:24 new word combinations emerge
00:21:08 Sentences emerge
00:21:30 Conversation is both the base plate and the apex of the Spoken language development
00:22:40 The Hierarchy of speech sound production
00:25:10 Monitor your growing child’s speech development
00:29:19 Engaging your baby through Conversation
00:29:46 Reflection
00:30:57 Our next episode: Noisy Spaces
Resources:
- 💬 Submit your question to the show: https://www.soundsteps.uk/podcast-ask-question/
- 👩⚕️ Face-to-face AVT with Shefali Shah (London): https://soundsteps.uk
- 🌐 Online AVT sessions available via AVT Direct: https://avtdirect.com
- 🎓 Train online as an LSL professional in AVT: https://learnavt.com
- 📧 Contact Shefali directly: shefalishah@soundsteps.uk
📚 Resources
For Professionals and Parents:
- Estabrooks, W., MacIver-Lux, K., & Rhoades, E. (Eds.). (2020). Auditory-Verbal Therapy: For Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (2nd ed.). Plural Publishing.