Auditory Verbal UK
Children, parents, and professionals in partnership


Bignell Park Barns
Chesterton, Oxon
OX26 1TD
+44 (0) 1869 321492

AVUK is a Registered Charity no. 1095133

Copyright © The Oxford Auditory-Verbal Programme 2000

Professional Training: Open Mornings

AVUK are delighted to offer free Open Mornings for professionals interested in finding out more about Auditory Verbal Therapy.

Next Open Morning: Thursday 11 March 2010

Visitors are welcome to join us for an Open Morning at our centre in Chesterton at which there will be an introduction to the Auditory Verbal approach and the particular styles of therapy used at AVUK. Visitors will be guided through a live session of therapy and will have the opportunity to ask questions and comment during the session. After the session, the parents have also agreed to take questions about their experience of the Auditory Verbal approach.

Date: Thursday 11 March 2010
Time: 1000 - 1300 hrs (registration at 0930 hrs)
Cost: No charge
Location: AVUK, Bignell Park Barns, Chesterton, Oxon, OX26 1TD - directions

Download a flyer | Register by emailing courses@avuk.org

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If any parents are attending the Open Morning to find out more about Auditory Verbal Therapy, we would ask that they make their own child-care arrangements.

For more information please contact our administrator Rachel French, on 01869 321492 or email courses@avuk.org.

Previous Open Mornings:

Feedback from previous Open Mornings:

  • "Excellent positive attitude and encouraging environment for the parents and children."
  • "Highly informative. Full of practical ideas and sound reasoning. More holistic than originally thought."
  • "Would recommend that families consider AV."

Report from our first Open Morning: 09 May 2008

The team at Auditory VerbalUK held the first in a series of ‘Open Mornings' to be held during the coming year. We had a group of 8 visitors who had expressed an interest in finding out more about the work of our charity. In particular, we were delighted to welcome Professor Ruth Litovsky from the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who has published widely in the fields of binaural hearing and bilateral cochlear implantation.

The morning started with an introduction to the Auditory Verbal approach. Our visitors were then able to watch a live session of therapy during which Ernie, his Mum and younger sister had great fun with sausages popping and banging. During the session, our visitors were alerted to the purpose of each activity and were able to appreciate the nature of the task whether it be diagnostic or to encourage listening and talking. The session was relayed to a recently installed wide screen monitor that has meant the end to the days when our visitors had to huddle close around our very much smaller screens. We were delighted to be using this new teaching aid for the first time.

As ever, we were very grateful to Ernie and his family not only for allowing their session to be watched by so many visitors but also because Ernie's Mum, Chrissie, then came to meet everyone and to answer their questions. Thank you Chrissie!

Naturally enough, we needed our visitors to be participants in our Open Morning rather than observers! In response to our question “If you were to tell someone about your visit to AV UK , what would you say?”, we had the following responses:-

  • "Excellent positive attitude and encouraging environment for the parents and children."
  • "Highly informative. Full of practical ideas and sound reasoning. More holistic than originally thought."
  • "Would recommend that families consider AV."

For more information about our open mornings please email courses@avuk.org.