Warren Estabrooks

Warren Estabrooks (* 1947 ) is a Canadian educator , pioneer of auditory-verbal education and hearing training for the cochlear implant . He is President and CEO of Listen International Inc. in Toronto , Canada.

life and work

After completing his master's degree as a teacher (Master of Education), Estabrooks worked for seven years in mainstream classrooms in Toronto. He went to the UK for a teaching exchange program, where he taught in an infant school that had a unit for hearing impaired children on campus . He was fascinated by hearing aids, and back in Toronto, he began a graduate school program at The Metropolitan Toronto School for the Deaf , which was primarily a "spoken language" school.

He came across auditory-verbal therapy through the work of Doreen Pollack , Helen Beebe and Susann Schmid-Giovannini , whom he also got to know personally. An audio-pedagogical course conducted by Doreen Pollack in Denver inspired him to train as an auditory-verbal therapist and spoken language specialist (LSLS Cert. AVT®).

In Canada he worked with Daniel Ling for a long time . From 1980 to 2007 he was director of the Auditory Learning Center of the Learning to Listen Foundation at North York General Hospital in Toronto.

He is a member of the College of Teachers of Ontario and an assistant professor in the Medical School of the University of Toronto . As a consultant and lecturer he is active worldwide and teaches auditory-verbal therapy and practice, auditory rehabilitation and auditory learning for deaf or hard of hearing children and adults, their relatives and therapists. It is mainly dedicated to the education and training of professionals in related child and adult disciplines.

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing named him their global ambassador. He is co-founding director of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and Auditory-Verbal International Inc. as well as Honorary Director of the Federal Association for Auditory-Verbal Therapy Germany (BVAVT) and AV Israel .

Honors

• 1999 Susann Schmid-Giovannini-Award for international excellence in auditory-verbal practice
• Professional of the Year Award from the International Organization for the Education of the Hearing Impaired (IOEHI)
• Dr. EW Wight Memorial Scholarship
• Peter R. Newman Humanitarian Award in recognition of his contribution to deaf children and their families around the world.
• in Canada's Who's Who as an influential Canadian.
• The Learning to Listen Foundation received the first International Voice of Deafness Award and was honored twice as Program of the Year by the International Professional Section (IPS) of AG Bell.

• Honoring as namesake for the Warren Estabrooks Center of the Wickramarachchi Speech and Hearing Center (WISH) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Publications

• Do You Hear That? (1992)
• with Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming, Ken Keobke (illustrator), Daniel Ling (introduction): Hear & Listen! Talk & Sing Songs for Hearing Impaired Children. Arisa Publishing, Toronto 1994. ISBN 0969734123
• Auditory-Verbal Therapy for Parents and Professionals . Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 1994, ISBN 0882002058
• The ABC's of AVT. Arisa Publishing, North York / Ontario 1995, ISBN 096973414X (book & video tape)
• Cochlear Implants For Kids . Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 1998 ISBN 0882002082
• The Baby Is Listening. 2000
• 50 FAQs about AVT (50 Frequently-Asked Questions About Auditory-Verbal Therapy). Learning to Listen Foundation, Toronto / Ontario 2001, ISBN 0968897908
• Songs for Listening! Songs for Life! Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 2003, ISBN 0882002147
• The Six-Sound Song . Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 2003 ISBN 0882002155
• Jacob's Journey. 2003
• Listen to this! Volume I, 2004
• We Learned to Listen (Listen to this! Volume II, 2006) Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 2005, ISBN 0882002228
• Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice . Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 2006, ISBN 9780882002231
• 101 frequently asked questions about auditory-verbal practice. Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington, DC 2012, ISBN 9780882000077

literature

• Warren Estabrooks: The auditory-verbal practice . In: Training in hearing - learning to speak: early help for hearing-impaired children. Anette Leonhardt (Ed.), Luchterhand, Berlin 1998

Web links

• Official website of We Listen International
• Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington: Interview with Warren Estabrooks
• The auditory-verbal therapy according to Warren Estabrooks / CA and Susann Schmid-Giovannini / CH
• Federal Association for Auditory Verbal Therapy Germany eV
• Warren Estabrooks: Cochlear Implant Online

Individual evidence

1. ^ Warren Estabrooks: A Career in Auditory Verbal Practice
2. ↑ Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, Inc., Washington: Interview with Warren Estabrooks  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.