ConnectHEAR is a nationally recognized program of HEAR Wisconsin providing access to specialized intervention - no matter where a family may live!   With ConnectHEAR, distance doesn’t matter!    Access to professionals with expertise, training and experience working with children who have hearing differences is possible by using the internet and a laptop, smartphone or tablet. Therapy can be provided in a family’s own home or child’s school using this highly successful and evidence-based method of teleintervention.

As HEAR Wisconsin is the only agency, in the state, offering early intervention therapy provided by LSLS Certified Auditory-Verbal professionals, ConnectHEAR was originally established, in 2007, to offer families choice and the opportunity to pursue listening and spoken language for their child.     

As the program expanded, ConnectHEAR offers intervention services across a continuum of communication and educational opportunities.  Additionally, many families have benefited from participation in the fun and learning of TeleToddler Communication Groups.

Benefits of the ConnectHEAR program can include:

• Speech- Language- Pathologist and Audiologist Professionals, who are specially trained and have expertise across therapeutic options providing intervention services to families of children with hearing differences

• Certified Listening and Spoken Language Specialist* - LSLS Certified Auditory Verbal Therapists and Educators with extensive training and experience working with families of children of all ages from infancy through school age and with all types of hearing loss

• Ongoing guidance and support so parents can learn how to implement auditory, speech and language goals in the home

• Individualized suggested activities, resources and learning materials

• Ongoing diagnostic assessment and monitoring of progress

• Consultations with Birth to Three providers, Audiologists, schools and other professionals

* LSLS Certification earned by completion of requirements of the A.G. Bell Academy for Listening & Spoken Language

For more information, contact Amy Lalios.

Check out past publications about telepractice, auditory-verbal therapy, and more:

• ConnectHEAR TeleIntervention Program. By: Amy Peters Lalios, MA, CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT (The Volta Review, Winter 2012)

• Are auditory-verbal services viable using telepractice? By: Amy Peters Lalios, MA, CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT & Deborah Kravit, MS, CCC-SLP, LSLS-Cert. AVEd (AGB - 2012)

• Long Distance Auditory-Verbal Therapy - Using the Internet to Make Services Available (InfoLink Newsletter, Summer 2010)

• Across the Miles - CDHH Launches Long-Distance Therapy Service (InfoLink Newsletter, March 2008)