Learner Outcomes

1. Describe why some children with hearing loss may have difficulty learning language and skills of play. 
2. Identify four reasons why children may get “stuck” in play. 
3. Explain how professionals and parents can “drive play” and “push in” with language learning opportunities.

Course Presenters

Rosie Quayle, Clinical Lead, Sc (Hons) SLT, Cert MRCSLT, PGDip Auditory Verbal Therapy, LSLS Cert. AVT®

Rosie qualified as a speech and language therapist in London at University College London. She moved to Oxfordshire in September 2007 to join the team at Auditory VerbalUK. She completed her diploma in auditory verbal therapy and qualified as an LSLS certified auditory verbal therapist in 2009, after training at Auditory VerbalUK.

Rosie has undertaken training in the PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) technique for assessment and management of children with oro-motor speech production difficulties. She lectures and delivers training in auditory verbal therapy to parents and professionals across the UK and internationally and mentors professionals towards certification. Rosie has been Clinical Lead at Auditory VerbalUK since April 2013. Rosie is a Churchill Fellow, having undertaken a fellowship visit to AV centres in Australia and New Zealand in 2015.

Contributor to Auditory Verbal Therapy – for Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families and the Practitioners who Guide Them, Estabrooks, MacIver-Lux, Rhoades, Plural Publishing 2016

Louise Ashton, Senior Auditory-verbal Therapist, M.Communication Pathalogy, RCSLT, PgDip Auditory Verbal Therapy, LSLS Cert. AVT®

Louise is dually trained as a speech and language therapist and audiologist and obtained her master’s degree at the University of Pretoria, South Africa in 2004. Louise has specialised in delivering audiology and speech and language therapy across a range of different settings in the NHS to various client groups since moving to the UK in 2004. She completed her postgraduate diploma in Auditory Verbal Therapy with distinction at Aston University in 2011.

Louise was mentored towards LSLS CertAVT after joining Auditory VerbalUK in February 2011 and qualified as an LSLS Cert AVT® in 2012. She is involved in multiple outreach programs across the UK, Malta and the Republic of Ireland, combining clinical work and training. Louise advises on rehabilitation in joint audiology and AV clinics with Josephine Marriage, Audiologist at CHEAR. She delivers training on various AVUK programs and mentors practitioners towards AV certification. She regularly presents at conferences, nationally and internationally, and has contributed to publications and book chapters.

Contributor to Auditory Verbal Therapy – for Young Children with Hearing Loss and Their Families and the Practitioners who Guide Them, Estabrooks, MacIver-Lux, Rhoades, Plural Publishing 2016

Louise works remotely from South Africa and in the AVUK London centre.