PRESS RELEASE: Macon home to Auditory Verbal Center (AVC), a resource to children with hearing loss and deafness and their families

Many are unaware that Macon is home to such an outstanding resource as the Auditory Verbal Center (AVC) (www.avchears.org). 

Operating since 1977 with its first office in Atlanta and now offering teletherapy throughout the state, AVC is a nonprofit that offers truly unique services where children with mild hearing loss to profound deafness are taught to listen and speak without the use of sign language or lip reading, making it one of only a few such centers in the United States offering comprehensive Auditory-Verbal therapy and a full-service Audiology & Hearing Aid Clinic. 

Three out of every 1,000 babies are born with hearing impairments. Debbie Brilling, the Executive Director, and her team are eager to ensure more physicians and parents of children with hearing loss are aware of their services (and ability to assist with scholarships and government funding for their children) as well as the importance for early screenings and the lifelong benefits of starting therapy earlier in life. 

Debbie is not only the Executive Director, but the mother of two graduates of AVC, so she has a true understanding of how this can affect families and the long term opportunities that this affords children including their education and careers.