{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Clear Speech in Your Deaf or Hard of Hearing Child","description":"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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nA 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.\n\nClear speech is the result of diligent preparation.\n\nThis is The Sound Steps Podcast.\n\n🎧 Top Tips from Episode 18\n\nClear speech emerges from clear listening: Ensure your child has optimal access to sound with well-functioning hearing devices.\nTalking precedes listening: Talking is the outcome of a consistent period of listening time.\nTrain your child’s listening: The presence of hearing loss means that your child needs to be trained to listen, even with modern hearing technology.\nYour 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.\nPre-Speech development: Vocalisations, babbling and Jargon precede first words.\nFollow the natural stages of development of Speech sounds: There is a universal order to the development of speech sounds.\n\nTime Stamps:\n\n00:00:00 Introduction\n00:01:10 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents\n00:01:25 Choosing Auditory-Verbal Therapy for your deaf or hard of hearing child\n00:01:50 AVT facilitates age-appropriate development\n00:02:02 Abundant choices open up through AVT\n00:02:47 Early identification and the fitting of early and optimal amplification.\n00:02:53 A life free of limitations\n00:03:06 Introduction to this episode\n00:03:42 Show notes, Top tips and Time Stamps\n00:03:54 Links and contact details\n00:04:00 Resources\n00:04:45Development in infants with typical hearing\n00:05:19 We talk as we hear\n00:06:34 Talking presupposes listening\n00:09:39 Your baby will talk when she is ready to talk\n00:09:56 Speech readiness\n00:11:40 Pre-speech development\n00:13:29 Vocalisations\n00:14:10 Babbling\n00:15:01 Vocalisation Vs Babbling\n00:15:27 Delayed or absent babbling\n00:15:53 Babbling develops with social interaction\n00:17:18 Jargon\n00:20:08 First words\n00:20:24 new word combinations emerge\n00:21:08 Sentences emerge\n00:21:30 Conversation is both the base plate and the apex of the Spoken language development\n00:22:40 The Hierarchy of speech sound production\n00:25:10 Monitor your growing child’s speech development\n00:29:19 Engaging your baby through Conversation\n00:29:46 Reflection\n00:30:57 Our next episode: Noisy Spaces\n\nResources:\n\n💬 Submit your question to the show: https://www.soundsteps.uk/podcast-ask-question/\n👩‍⚕️ Face-to-face AVT with Shefali Shah (London): https://soundsteps.uk\n🌐 Online AVT sessions available via AVT Direct: https://avtdirect.com\n🎓 Train online as an LSL professional in AVT: https://learnavt.com\n📧 Contact Shefali directly: shefalishah@soundsteps.uk (mailto:shefalishah@soundsteps.uk)\n\n📚 Resources\n\nFor Professionals and Parents:\n\nEstabrooks, 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.","author_name":"The Sound Steps Podcast","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5160349-the-sound-steps-podcast","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43721374/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}