First Bite #117 – September 15, 2020

Learning to Listen with Jenine a LSLS Certified AVT SLP

(.1 ASHA and AOTA CEUs) For more info, click here.

Course Description

In this episode, Michelle is joined by the Jenine Entwistle Viole, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT, a Speech-Language Pathologist and Auditory-Verbal therapist with Pediatric Speech and Language Services in North Carolina…and if we are lucky her sidekick Dennis the Golden Doodle, honorary SLP, will join in too! Have you ever worked with a little one who had hearing loss and felt as if you were missing “something” to help them reach their functional language goals? Jenine is here to explain what an Auditory-Verbal Therapist is and how the specialized training and certification process supplies the evidence for that “something” you felt was missing. This is the perfect follow-up episode to compliment Dakota Sharpe, AuD, CCC-A in “The Journey of Cochlear Implants”, from First Bite Episode #109.

Objective

By the end of this PodCourse, participants will be able to identify and describe:

  • The process for becoming an Auditory-Verbal Therapist.
  • What the acronyms LSLS and AVT mean, as well as the differences between the terms.
  • Steps involved in the AVT Certification and how it provides EBP to the world of Early Intervention.

Co-Presenter

Jenine Entwistle Viole, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT

Jenine Entwistle Viole is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Auditory-Verbal therapist with Pediatric Speech and Language Services in North Carolina. She currently lives in Winston-Salem and provides in-home services in the surrounding areas and clinic sessions in Greensboro. She graduated with her Bachelors in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences from the University of Connecticut in 2014 and Masters of Speech Pathology degree from the University of South Carolina as an AVT track student in 2016. Since then, she has been working in private practice and home health with a focus on early intervention services and listening and spoken language for children with hearing loss.

She began her career in Lexington, South Carolina and moved to Winston Salem in June 2018, coinciding with her husband’s family medicine residency program at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. She obtained her LSLS certification earlier this year 2020 and is now a certified Auditory-Verbal therapist. She feels fortunate to have found a career that she is passionate about and truly does not feel like she gets up and “goes to work” each day. She is also Mom to “Dennis”, the perfect fluffy goldendoddle and honorary EI SLP.