Our Mission
The mission of The Hearing House is to teach deaf and hearing-impaired children to listen and speak. We aim to help these children reach their full social and academic potential by ensuring they can listen and speak at the same level as their hearing peers. Today children who are profoundly deaf can have access to sound thanks to scientific advances in hearing aids and the development of cochlear implants. Whether the child learns to understand this sound, fulfil their hearing potential and develop spoken language depends on whether they receive an advanced and specialised therapy called Auditory-Verbal Therapy.
Auditory-Verbal Therapy accelerates the natural way a child would develop language to enable deaf children with a cochlear implant or hearing aid to catch up on the years of listening and language development he or she missed out on before receiving the hearing device. The aim of Auditory-Verbal Therapy is for the child to speak clearly and naturally like their hearing peers and to attend mainstream school by the age of five. In later life the child will experience enhanced education and employment opportunities; enhanced social independence and quality of life; and will be able to fully participate in, and contribute to, mainstream society.
The Hearing House provides other services to maximise the effects the of Auditory-Verbal Therapy Programme audiology, a preschool, parent support, transition to school, and industry training.
