Explanation of Costs

A Summary of Services, Steps in Process, & Intervention Costs

Session Fee (In-home or remotely) — $90.00/hour with a cap of $450.00 throughout this process.

• Session Fee Cap does not include screening assessment, on-line Moore Auditory-Visual Questionnaire, and equipment rental for auditory integration training. Those fees are shared below along with benefits.

Cheri listens to your concerns and takes a case history. Client receives a Case History Document to review and provide corrections. Follow-up email also typically provides resources, educational information, and summary of next step.

Additional Fees

Screening Auditory-Visual Processing Skills $175.00

Visual Processing Screening Assessment (Approximate 2 hours In-home)  – Observation activities are fun for all ages. Client receives a Moore Auditory Visual Observation Activity Report helping them complete a Moore Auditory Visual Questionnaire (MAVQ) and receive their automatically generated MAVQ Report. To protect confidentiality, client shares MAVQ Report with Cheri. 

• Advocacy Support like an accommodation letter for school, work, and yearly achievement testing

Moore Auditory-Visual Questionnaire (on-line, cost $25.00) – receive an automatically-generated Moore Auditory Visual Questionnaire Report

• Learn intensity and frequency of behaviors associated with sound intolerance, expressive speech, listening with comprehension & remembering in all environments (auditory processing skills)
• Learn  even more about ability to keep vision single and clear with fixed depth perception during all activities.

COST for Additional Family Members

$200.00 dollars due to need to screen, write reports, explain findings, and develop their intervention plan.

First Session

Cheri listens to your concerns and takes a case history. Client receives a Case History Document to review and provide corrections. Follow-up email also typically provides resources, educational information, etc…

Second Session

Auditory and Visual Processing Screening Observation Activities in the comfort of your home lasting approximately 2 hours allowing time to explain findings and provide immediate help. Review accuracy of Case History and provide advocacy help like a school or workplace accommodation letter.

Third Session

Review MAVQ Report, receive resources helping you make a plan of action. When MAVQ Report confirms auditory processing and/or visual processing concerns, client receives:

•  Letter to an audiologist, help finding an audiologist
• Readiness Hearing Evaluation Game activities
• Help finding a neurorehabiliation or developmental optometrist near them
• Advocacy support as you prepare for appointments using case history, observation report, & letter = Self Advocacy

Audiologist and ENT doctors bill your insurance company, which covers the cost of hearing tests, except the Uncomfortable Loudness Test. Please reassure the audiologist that you are willing to pay ____, if insurance does not cover a requested test.

It is the client’s responsibility to call the insurance company to learn if a referral is required for recommended appointment(s).

Additional Sessions

Support through referrals, understanding results, and collaborate to develop an intervention plan. When testing shows concerns in both areas, clients receive an Auditory Visual Training Protocol.

•  Provide educational learning support
• Emotional learning
• Behavioral interventions
• 504 or IEP Support
• Gluten and Dairy Free cooking and baking lesson(s)

Cost Summary of Auditory Integration Training 

Hearing evaluation results, and sometimes additional medical findings, help determine if a client can respond to auditory integration training and maintain progress.

Insurance does not cover the cost of auditory training and equipment. All fees are the responsibility of the client or parents/guardians.

There is no session fee during the in-home visit to finish developing client’s auditory integration training program and support client through their auditory integration training program.

Rental of first Berard Auditory Integration Training is $150.00/month.

10 to 14 days of In-Home Berard Auditory Integration Training

Listening Activities

Equipment Rental: Berard Auditory Training CDs, CD player, and headphones are returned immediately after done with your listening program.

• •  Based on availability, clients within driving distance borrow a CD player.
  • Clients out-of-area purchase their own CD play.

Duration: typically one week to work up to a 30 minute listening session followed by a break, then 10 days of AIT.

Cost of 3 day booster program three months after first program, based on hearing evaluation ($50.00)

Cost of second 10 day listening program is 150.00 (6 months after first program based on hearing test)

Unyte/iLs Integrated Listening Programs (Cheri provides backpack.)

Year access to music,

• $120.00 for Safe and Sound Listening Programs
• $120.00 for ILS Programs

Unyte Listening Equipment (headphones with special device) is purchased by client from Cheri $225.00 plus shipping and tax.

Unfortunately, headphones have consistently been damaged upon their return. Thus, I will buy back equipment minus replacement cost of headphones. Client uses their own iPhone or iPad with an adapter to plug in headphones.