Svetlana Viktorovna Burnos is a professional musician, winner of various competitions, music teacher from Belarus, creator of the method, and mother of a child with CI. Svetlana Viktorovna has been successfully applying the method for many years, helping hundreds of CI users to effectively develop and improve their hearing and speech. Thanks to Svetlana Viktorovna Burnos’s seminars and lectures, specialists in many countries around the world are familiarized with the possibilities of the method and receive practical recommendations for its application.
Inna Vasilievna Koroleva is a leading expert in the field of auditory-verbal rehabilitation of children and adults with hearing impairment, CI users, the author of the “auditory method” of rehabilitation of children and adults with CI, an important part of which is the use of music and singing. Chief researcher at the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Ear, Throat, Nose and Speech. Author of numerous scientific articles, monographs, patents, educational and practical manuals for specialists and parents of children with hearing loss, a world-class professional who provides invaluable support to a huge number of CI users. Thanks to her vast experience Inna Vasilievna contributes to the professional development of hearing rehabilitation specialists from all over the world.
To adopt the method for English speaking countries a team of professionals created a special songs cycle in English.
Karl Buchauer is a musician, composer and lyrics writer. He studied meticulously all the criteria of original special cycle created by the method author and applied them to work on the English songs cycle. As a result he composed 10 songs that perfectly suit the purpose of hearing and speech development of CI users.
Nicole Müller – a beautiful and talented singer, a native English speaker with Srilankan background recorded the songs under the supervision of the method‘s author. She created a great video material to support rehabilitation specialists while applying the method. The videos can be used for daily home practice by CI recipients and also as a future reference for the specialists using the method.
Nicole has also successfully applied the method in Sri Lanka. After a month of online lessons with Srilankan children CI users, a wonderful music video was recorded. More importantly, the method has once again shown its effectiveness and every participant’s improvement in hearing and speech was noticeable.
