Dame Rachel de Souza visited Auditory Verbal UK (AVUK), the winner of last year's CYP Now early years award, to learn about Auditory Verbal therapy amid rising misconceptions about help for deaf children.
Deaf children and young people shared their stories and achievements with de Souza to emphasise the importance of early and effective intervention for children with hearing loss.
The children’s commissioner also heard about Auditory Verbal therapy, offered by AVUK, which supports deaf children to learn how to make sense of the sound they receive through their hearing technology so that they can talk.
A recent YouGov survey commissioned by AVUK revealed that 35 per cent of adults have no idea a child born profoundly deaf can learn to speak as well as a hearing child if they choose to do so.
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