What Meets the Needs of Families Is What Families Need

Abstract

Reviews the book, Auditory-verbal practice: Toward a family-centered approach by E. A. Rhoades and J. Duncan (2010). This book is a highly readable and well-researched text on the application of evidence-based practice in family centered therapy to intervention with children with hearing loss and their families. This is mostly an advanced text, sections of which would be very useful for graduate students. Experienced speech language pathologists, audiologists, and teachers of the deaf who are hoping to further their understanding of the science behind family-centered intervention and the application of such evidence to Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) will also get a lot out of this book. Although some sections of the book felt repetitive to me, overall I learned a great deal and will definitely refer to this text when I teach as well as when I work with families. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)