Parents are encouraged to apply the same expectations for their child with hearing loss as for their other children. The child's life is transformed into an auditory learning environment so that sound becomes a part of the child's personality and memory for all experiences. AV management teaches the child to attend to sound. This leads to the unfolding of the brain processes for hearing, active and passive listening and verbal communication. As the child's discrimination and memory for sound increase, so does his vocabulary and use of phrases and sentences.
Parents use the events of daily life to advance the child's auditory and verbal skills.
The child is allowed the first few years of listening to lay an auditory foundation for communication. Ongoing evaluation and monitoring of the child's needs. A child's need for various technologies and therapies change over time. Coaching the child for independent functioning for social and educational mainstreaming. With hearing children as friends and attendance at preschool and school with hearing children, the child is immersed in role models for verbal communication and the expectations of the community.