Getting Ready to Graduate From Early Intervention Services: Your Deaf Child and You
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After all your diligent and consistent follow-up in Auditory-Verbal Therapy, your deaf or hard of hearing child’s development is comparable to those of her peers!
Graduation from Early Intervention Services celebrates this milestone! As you and your family prepare for this major event in your child’s life, you linger, struggling to let go of all those who have supported you to come to this point.
In Episode 22, Shefali Shah, a LSLS Cert. AVT professional, in conversation with Simi and Chandresh Rugani from her in-person practice in London, UK, reflect on the milestones gone by that facilitated age-appropriate development in their now 4 year old hearing-aided son.
They express their gratitude for availing of Genetic Testing.
As they celebrate, these parents like so many others, are wistful as they reflect on all the support they have received through early intervention.
In a lively conversation with Shefali, the Rughanis share heart-warming experiences from their son’s life to illustrate how his confidence and sense of humour have grown significantly as his vocabulary expanded! Confident, self-possessed and with a delightful sense of humour, this wonderful 4 year old jokes about his quirky ear moulds and is enjoying life in his neighbourhood and at school!
Listen. Learn. Talk.
This is The Sound Steps Podcast.
🎧 Top Tips from Episode 21
- Auditory-Verbal Therapy is a finite service: you and your deaf child graduate from early intervention services.
- Pretend Play can be a powerful tool to build language competence and confidence.
- The challenges of school: listening in noise and listening at a distance.
- Developing self-advocacy skills is critical.
- The influence of social skills on self-confidence.
- Genetic Testing is valuable.
- Live one day at a time.
- 00:00 The Auditory-Verbal journey begins
- 01:06 Auditory-Verbal Therapy is modelled on typical development in children
- 01:13 Auditory-Verbal Therapy facilitates age-appropriate development
- 01:58 Readiness to graduate from early intervention services
- 02:30 Introducing our guests: Simi and Chandresh Rughani
- 02:58 Ready to graduate from the early intervention service
- 03:13 Encouragement and positive feedback at school
- 04:10 Confident and interactive
- 04:37 Readiness for talking over the telephone
- 05:27 The challenge of listening at school: listening in noise and at a noise
- 06:04 Developing self-advocacy skills
- 06:48 Listening and following along in class
- 07:27 Keeping up with games and their rules at school
- 09:50 Building friendships with the children in the neighbourhood
- 10:10 Play Dates and birthday parties
- 11:03 Role Play to develop social skills
- 11:34 AV Technique: Sabotage
- 13:13 Having an opinion
- 14:18 Offering an explanation
- 14:58 A sense of humour
- 17:06 Self confidence
- 17:50 A supportive school environment
- 17:59 Niggling worries linger
- 18:18 The value of Genetic Testing
- 18:27 Fear of the unknown
- 18:57 The long term: graduating from services
- 20:29 Self-belief
- 21:00 Living one day at a time
- 21:16 Summary: On-going tracking of your child’s development
- 21:43 Upcoming episode: Raising a Humourous Deaf Teenager!
🔗 Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
- 💬 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