Service Guide
Cockburn-Kwinana Area
Hear at Home
Service description
Hear at Home provides “in home” services to families with young children with diagnosed
hearing loss. Parents, who desire for their child to be a competent listening and speaking
individual, integrating fully in the hearing world, work (weekly/fortnightly) alongside an
auditory-verbal therapist.
An auditory-verbal therapist is a professional who has tertiary qualifications in deaf education,
and/or audiology and speech therapy. The auditory-verbal approach focuses on attaining
normal developmental listening and speaking milestones to ensure children with hearing loss
develop just as a child with typical hearing. The approach guides and coaches parents to
facilitate their child’s listening and spoken language potential throughout their everyday life.
Hear at Home therapists capitalise on the everyday life events of a young child’s life and
supports parents to identify listening and spoken language learning opportunities. Parents
become skilled at using many strategies and techniques in the home environment to ensure
optimal listening and spoken language outcomes for their child.
Hear at Home therapists have many years of experience, expertise and knowledge supporting
families with babies, children and adults with hearing loss. Please see the website for more
details: www.hearathome.com.au
Pricing information parents to facilitate
All services are set at $169.00 per 1 hour auditory-verbal therapy session
If the family live beyond 15km radius of the therapist base, a travel allowance will also be
claimed.
Contact details
Contact person: Pia Leeming
Title: Service Coordinator
Address: Mobile Service
Mobile: 0415 313 419
Email: pia@hearathome.com.au
Hear at Home provides reasonable and necessary disability related
supports and services to eligible individuals through contract with the
Disability Services Commission. Individuals and their family or other
stakeholders make independent decisions about which supports or services
they wish to purchase and this guide is provided to support that process.