Book: Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice
By Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT

An expansion of the popular “Auditory-Verbal Therapy for Parents and Professionals” (1994), this text is a must-have for hearing health professionals, students entering hearing health fields and parents who want to explore the theory and practices of auditory-verbal therapy. Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice offers practical guidance to the successful implementation of auditory-verbal therapy and explains how professionals and parents can work together to give children with hearing loss the opportunity to develop age-appropriate language and literacy skills.

Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice includes excerpts from therapy sessions that highlight techniques used by professionals and parents for children ages 0 through age 6. The book also provides insight from family essays that illustrate how auditory-verbal therapy benefits children and an overview of recent research on auditory-verbal therapy.

*This item is recommended for reading by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.

Product Information: softcover/2006

Book: 50 Frequently Asked Questions About Auditory-Verbal Therapy
By Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT

Fifty Frequently Asked Questions About Auditory-Verbal Therapy is the first comprehensive book of its kind. It is a prolific collection of responses to the most frequently asked questions about auditory-verbal therapy and its application for children who are deaf and hard of hearing. Parents and professionals, as well as anyone concerned with deafness and auditory-verbal therapy, will welcome the guidance, encouragement and knowledge found within this collaboration of professionals who have joined both hearts and minds to provide an extraordinary and informative worldwide resource.

*This item is recommended for reading by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.

Product Information: softcover/2001

Book & CD: Songs for Listening! Songs for Life!
By Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT, and Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming, B.A., ARCT

Songs for Listening! Songs for Life! is a song book, CD set and therapy guide. This dynamic new resource was specially designed to teach children with hearing loss how to listen and talk through the use of singing and music. It includes early intervention activities as well as resources for parents and professionals who work to develop audition and spoken language in children with hearing loss and/or other communicative disorders. This publication includes current language-learning theory presented in an easy-to-read format with technical references for professionals. Each lesson found in Songs for Listening! Songs for Life! is designed to achieve several therapy goals and incorporates at least one musical activity, with a particular emphasis on parent participation and interaction.

*This item is recommended for reading by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.

Product Information: book and CD set/softcover/2003

This book was developed as an educational tool for professional use in university classrooms and training environments. As a career development resource, the ABCs of AVT provides an overview of auditory-verbal techniques and guidance on appropriate intervention for children experiencing difficulties with language development. Task analysis exercises are outlined in the manual and demonstrated in the video, which contains excerpts of therapy sessions and longitudinal studies. The exercises and videos are designed to help students and professionals of all experience levels hone their clinical skills.

*This item is recommended for reading by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.

Product Information: book and video set/softcover/VHS (captioned)/2005

Book & CD: The Six-Sound Song
Music and Lyrics by Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed, Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT

The Six-Sound Song is a superb children’s musical storybook. Based on “The Six-Sound Test” developed by the late Daniel Ling, Ph.D., The Six-Sound Song is quickly finding its place as one of the most important children’s books used for both individual and group therapy sessions in auditory and oral environments. Parents and children will thoroughly enjoy the illustrations created by seven-year old Hunter Jackson, who received his cochlear implant at the Auditory-Verbal Centre of the Learning to Listen Foundation in Toronto, Canada. This musical storybook will keep your child entertained while learning.

Product Information: book and CD set/hardcover/2003

Book & CD: Hear & Listen! Talk & Sing!
By Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT, and Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming, B.A., ARCT

Created for teachers and professionals, this music book/CD set integrates songs with speech sounds, enabling young children with hearing loss to develop melodic, natural-sounding voices and enhancing linguistic skills. Songs include sounds that are acoustically relevant to children with severe or profound hearing loss ages 18 months to 7 years. The songs vary in difficulty and are grouped in categories such as animals, weather and holidays.

Product Information: book and CD set/softcover/2006

Book: We Learned to Listen
Edited by Warren Estabrooks, M.Ed., Dip. Ed. Deaf, LSLS Cert. AVT

“We Learned to Listen” features the personal stories of nine individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing and their drive to become part of a hearing world. Through each individual’s distinct experience, readers will discover the triumphs and struggles of learning to listen, to talk and to find their own definitions of success. The book is both inspiring and motivating. We Learned to Listen offers an in-depth view of what it means to live every day with hearing loss.

Product Information: softcover/2005