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Psychological evaluation and counselling in Kottayam | Kerala support for children with hearing loss is very crucial along with the mainstream treatment. It also helps parents feel more comfortable talking to children about hearing loss, helping them describe their feelings about being a child with hearing loss in a mainstream settings and helping children learn to advocate for themselves about issues related to hearing loss.

Why is Counselling important?

Most children with hearing loss are educated in mainstream facilities. The advantages of a mainstream facility are that children with hearing loss will have typical language models. The typical hearing children have normal academic, social and developmental skills and the same will be expected of the children with hearing loss from other children and the school faculty. The children with hearing loss will also have a better opportunity to develop skills that will serve them as adults. The disadvantage of children in a mainstream education system is that they do not have significant contact with other children with hearing impairments and as result some of them may feel isolated and if the language skills are weak they will have more limited  social opportunities and  not feel good about themselves. That is where the role of counselling becomes significant.

Children who are in the special education setting may need assistance in dealing with people outside the environment. They depend on the school program and may not be able to communicate well with outside people.

What are the Types of Counselling?

There are mainly two kinds of counselling: informational counselling where we make people aware with facts and support counselling where we help them deal with emotions and feelings.

Client-Centred Counselling: focuses on the client and not on the test results. Here the diagnostic process begins with first contact with the family. Along with children, parents too need the opportunity to share their feelings, distress and concerns.

When children gets older, we need to start including children in the diagnostic process because it helps them understands the issues related to their hearing loss and figure out what they might do to make things better.

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AVT Therapy | Kottayam | Pathanamthitta  is a highly specialist early intervention family focused coaching program that equips care takers and parents with necessary tools and knowledge to enhance the development of the child’s speaking and listening skills.

Children with hearing impairment require optimum technology like cochlear implants or hearing aids for better hearing experience. Apart from that, we also need the technology to stimulate auditory cortex-the listening part of the brain. This stimulation process should be done early in a child’s life, best before completing three and a half years of age. AVT Therapy | Kottayam | Pathanamthitta | works to ensure the right technology is provided to assure parents and care takers are given the right strategies to stimulate listening experience and thereby auditory cortex Through this process children with hearing difficulties are provided with a better environment for developing spoken language and listening skills providing them with the equal start and same opportunities in life as that of other children.

Parents are given the right tools and knowledge through play-based therapy sessions – Auditory Verbal strategies and techniques to develop their child’s speaking and listening capability. AVT Therapy | Kottayam | Pathanamthitta   enables parents to equip their child with the best possible use of hearing technology and help themselves to check and troubleshoot by associating with the audiology  team. This helps children’s access to sound so that speaking and listening skills can be developed to the fullest extent possible with the help of technology.

Through play-based sessions children develops a listening attitude along with paying automatic attention to the sound around them. Listening and speaking becomes an integral part of communication in day to day life, be it in schools, playground and eventually in work environment. All learning from the sessions gets implemented on to the daily life usage. This means parents at home can arrange daily life activities such as reading a story or setting the table into a fun oriented listening and learning experience.