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- EIN 58-1305600
- (404) 633-8911
- 1875 Century Blvd Ne Ste 200 Atlanta GA 30345-3314 USA
- www.avchears.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Deaf & Hearing Impaired Centers, Disabilities, Ear & Throat Diseases, Health, Human Services, Rehabilitative Care
Mission: The auditory verbal center (avc) is a not-for-profir hearing center serving hearing impaired infants, children, adults and their families throughout georgia. Founded in 1977, the center provides a rigorous long-term program of auditory-verbal therapy to assist hearing impaired children learn to hear and speak without the use of sign language or lip reading with the goal of being successfully mainstreamed into normal hearing schools. The agency also provides a full service audiology department to serve hearing impaired individuals of all ages in the community. To hear and see the amazing results of our work from the mouths of profound deaf children who have successfully undergone the rigors of auditory-verbal education, please visit out website at www. Avchears. Org and click on "hear our kids". This is a one minute seventeen seconds video presentation using windows media player.
Programs: The agency served 154 mild to profoundly deaf children in the auditory verbal program during the 2017 calendar year. In 2017 avc graduated 11 clients who are now listening and speaking children using no sign language and mainstreamed in the regular classrooms with their hearing peers. Due to the increase in the demand for auditory verbal therapy services throughout georgia, avc has 2 locations one in atlanta and in macon. In an effort to serve as many deaf or hard of hearing children in georgia, the center now offers tele-therapy for those families who cannot make the drive to one of the physical locations. The audiology department continues to serve clients from birth to seniors with diagnostic testing and dispensing of hearing aids.