Karen MacIver-Lux, M.A., Reg. CASLPO, Aud(C), LSLS Cert. AVT, is the President of SoundIntuition, Co-Founder of Thrive Together and Hearing Navigation Consultants. As President of Sound Intuition, Karen provides multi-media training materials, conferences, and mentoring support for professionals engaged in practices to treat communication disorders in children and adults. As Co-Founder of Thrive Together and Hearing Navigation Consultants, Karen provides aural rehabilitation and consultation services to individuals with hearing challenges of all ages and their families. Karen is a course instructor for Aural Rehabilitation at the University of Toronto, a co-course instructor of Aural Rehabilitation for the Addis Adaba University/University of Toronto, and she frequently guest lectures at the University of Western Ontario and Central Michigan University and has held the position of Lecturer in the School of Human Communication Disorders at Dalhousie University.
Karen currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for VOICE for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Alexander Graham Bell Association. From 2007 to 2020, Karen served as a consultant to WE Listen International Inc. From 1997-2007 Karen worked as an auditory-verbal therapist and coordinator of clinical services at the Learning to Listen Foundation (LTLF), North York General Hospital in Toronto. In addition, she worked as a clinical audiologist for several years. She also served as a director of the board of Auditory-Verbal International, Inc. Karen has a congenital severe to profound hearing loss and is a graduate of LTLF.
Karen was honored by Maclean’s magazine as one of the Top 100 Young Canadians of 2000 and received the Who’s Who in Students of American Colleges and Universities Awards in 1993.
Karen has made significant contributions to the literature including: How the Student with Hearing Loss Can Succeed in College (2nd ed.) (1996), 50 FAQs About AVT (2001), Songs for Listening! Songs for Life! (2003), Listen to This!- Volume 1 (2004), The Listener (2000, 2005), Listen to This!- Volume 2 (2006), Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice (2006), Perspectives on Audiology (2009), 101 FAQs about Auditory Verbal Therapy (2012), and a chapter on Aural Rehabilitation in the text Cochlear Implants (2012). Karen is co-editor of the Auditory-Verbal Therapy For Young Children With Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (2016) and Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice (2020).
She has consulted and lectured internationally and continues to be instrumental in the training of professionals worldwide. She has developed a training and certification program for Auditory Life Skills Training (ALST), a form of aural rehabilitation for older children, teenagers and adults with hearing loss and to date, professionals from Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Canada and the USA hold Level 1 & 2 Certification in ALST granted by SoundIntuition.
Karen currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for VOICE for Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Alexander Graham Bell Association. From 2007 to 2020, Karen served as a consultant to WE Listen International Inc. From 1997-2007 Karen worked as an auditory-verbal therapist and coordinator of clinical services at the Learning to Listen Foundation (LTLF), North York General Hospital in Toronto. In addition, she worked as a clinical audiologist for several years. She also served as a director of the board of Auditory-Verbal International, Inc. Karen has a congenital severe to profound hearing loss and is a graduate of LTLF.
Karen was honored by Maclean’s magazine as one of the Top 100 Young Canadians of 2000 and received the Who’s Who in Students of American Colleges and Universities Awards in 1993.
Karen has made significant contributions to the literature including: How the Student with Hearing Loss Can Succeed in College (2nd ed.) (1996), 50 FAQs About AVT (2001), Songs for Listening! Songs for Life! (2003), Listen to This!- Volume 1 (2004), The Listener (2000, 2005), Listen to This!- Volume 2 (2006), Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Practice (2006), Perspectives on Audiology (2009), 101 FAQs about Auditory Verbal Therapy (2012), and a chapter on Aural Rehabilitation in the text Cochlear Implants (2012). Karen is co-editor of the Auditory-Verbal Therapy For Young Children With Hearing Loss and Their Families, and the Practitioners Who Guide Them (2016) and Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice (2020).
She has consulted and lectured internationally and continues to be instrumental in the training of professionals worldwide. She has developed a training and certification program for Auditory Life Skills Training (ALST), a form of aural rehabilitation for older children, teenagers and adults with hearing loss and to date, professionals from Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Canada and the USA hold Level 1 & 2 Certification in ALST granted by SoundIntuition.