Auditory Verbal UK

Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK) supports deaf babies and young children to learn to listen and speak.
They do this through Auditory Verbal therapy, which is an early support approach centred on the whole family.
The therapy teaches parents and carers simple tools they can use every day to help their child develop listening and spoken language.

AVUK works with deaf children from birth to five years old.
The therapy helps children make sense of sound from hearing technology, such as hearing aids or cochlear implants.
It supports them to develop spoken language so they can communicate with confidence.

Therapy Sessions

Families have therapy sessions every two weeks.
All sessions are led by a highly trained Auditory Verbal Therapist.
These therapists are qualified teachers of the deaf, speech and language therapists, or audiologists.
They have also completed at least three years of extra, specialist training.

AVUK is a charity and offers sessions in different ways:

• In person at their Yorkshire location in Roundhay, Leeds
• Online
• A mix of in‑person and online sessions, based on what suits each family

Disability: Deafness or hearing loss

Age: Children aged 0 to 5 years

Contact Details

Website: https://www.avuk.org/ 

Families can find out more by calling 01869 325000 or filling in the online contact form.
An Auditory Verbal Therapist will get in touch to explain the programme in more detail.