Advocating for children & families throughout Alaska
Listen 2 Learn Speech Therapy is a private practice that provides speech, language, and listening services to children and adults within the city of Anchorage and throughout Alaska.
Services include:
- Auditory Verbal Therapy
- Total Communication Therapy
- Auditory habilitation for children and adults with hearing aids and/or cochlear implants
- Receptive and expressive language intervention for a variety of language disorders
- Articulation therapy
- Pragmatic language therapy
- Oral motor therapy for repaired cleft lip/palate
- Tele-practice to remote locations within Alaska
Listen 2 Learn Speech Therapy specializes in providing Auditory Verbal Therapy for families who desire their children to learn speech through listening and spoken language.
What is Auditory Verbal Therapy?
Auditory-Verbal Therapy
The Alexander Graham Bell (AG Bell) Academy for Listening and Spoken Language governs the certification of Listening and Spoken Language Specialists (LSLS), the practitioners qualified to provide Auditory-Verbal Therapy. The Academy defines the practice of Auditory-Verbal Therapy as:
“Auditory-Verbal Therapy facilitates optimal acquisition of spoken language through listening by newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Auditory-Verbal Therapy promotes early diagnosis, one-on-one therapy, and state-of-the-art audiologic management and technology. Parents and caregivers actively participate in therapy. Through guidance, coaching, and demonstration, parents become the primary facilitators of their child’s spoken language development. Ultimately, parents and caregivers gain confidence that their child can have access to a full range of academic, social, and occupational choices. Auditory-Verbal Therapy must be conducted in adherence to the Principles LSLS of Auditory-Verbal Therapy” (AG Bell Academy, 2012).