Auditory-verbal therapy emphasizes listening and seeks to promote the development of the auditory brain to facilitate learning to communicate through talking.
First Voice, a membership body which represents organisations that provide listening and spoken language programmes in Australia, New Zealand and across the globe,[1] published a study in February 2015 based on information from more than 600 children with hearing loss.
[2] Data from over 1,400 children and their families supported by First Voice organisations in 2018 across Australia, New Zealand and the UK shows that 86% of the early intervention AV graduates who had hearing loss only are within or above the range for age-matched, typically developing children without hearing loss.
[3] In 2016, Kaiper and Danser[4] published a systematic review looking at the efficacy of the Auditory Verbal (AV) approach.
In the UK, access to Auditory Verbal therapy is available in a limited number of NHS Cochlear Implant Programmes.