Did you know that deaf children can learn to listen and speak? Please run for AVUK and help us to transform lives.
After a diagnosis of deafness, many new parents grieve for their baby’s imagined loss.
When Sade was diagnosed as deaf, our world was turned upside down. The nursery rhymes we had sung to her every day had not been heard, the stories I had read her had not been heard, she didn’t know our voices, she had lived in a silent world... We had no experience of deafness and had no history of it in our families.
Auditory VerbalUK teaches deaf children with hearing aids or cochlear implants to listen and speak. After three years of family-based language therapy, over 80% close the language gap and enter mainstream schools alongside their hearing friends. Our ‘graduates’ have conversations on the telephone, act in school plays and even learn foreign languages.
Alisha is now in a mainstream school, participates fully and has no trouble keeping up (she also does not stop talking and sings beautifully). That would not have been possible for her without auditory verbal therapy.
