15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/15/2016 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Topical Session 5 | Royal Palm 3/4 | 8 - EHDI Workforce Issues
Preparing Audiologists and Developmental Therapists to Collaborate in EI
Numerous studies examining the impact of EHDI programs have convincingly demonstrated that early intervention (EI) services are associated with improved outcomes for young children with hearing loss. While it has been recognized that high-quality service provision across multiple disciplines (including Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology, and Deaf Education) is ideal, the most recent supplement to the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing position statement indicates that “EI providers may not have sufficient preservice course work and/or practicum experiences that address the needs of children who are D/HH from birth to age 3 years and their families. As a result, they may lack core knowledge and skills to work with this population effectively” (JCIH, 2013). To address this deficiency and to improve interdisciplinary collaboration between professionals working with D/HH children and their families, a pre-service and inservice graduate certification program was developed for professionals across the state of Illinois. In a unique collaboration between professionals in different disciplines, all accepted students in the Illinois State University AIM To Be Ahead certificate program are enrolled for training and take a series of 5 graduate-level courses focusing on interdisciplinary service delivery to families of infants and toddlers with hearing loss. The rationale was to improve the understanding of the relationship between auditory access (e.g. the Audiologist’s specialty) and communication outcomes (Deaf Ed and SLP’s specialty) for all participants, and develop a framework for cross-disciplinary collaboration and teamwork that would demystify each specialty and improve interprofessional communication in future interactions between professionals working with D/HH children and their families.
This instructional session will include a description of the certificate program’s plan of study; pre- and post-training data regarding self-described competencies and needs for interdisciplinary training; and video examples of graduate students from each discipline practicing strategies and techniques for improving listening, language and speech in family-centered interventions.
- describe the certificate program’s plan of study with regard to interprofessional collaboration.
- list strategies and techniques for improving listening, language and speech in family-centered interventions with infants and toddlers with hearing loss.
- develop a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration between audiologists, speech-language pathologists, deaf educators, and other early intervention professionals.
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Presenters/Authors
Maribeth Lartz
(Primary Presenter), Illinois State University, mnlartz@ilstu.edu;
Maribeth Nelson Lartz, Ph.D., is professor and coordinator of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Teacher Preparation Program at Illinois State University. She is the Principal Investigator for AIM To Be Ahead, a U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation grant that prepares early intervention professionals to work with young children with hearing loss and their families. Dr. Lartz received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to working at Illinois State University, Dr. Lartz was a classroom teacher of children with hearing loss in Texas.
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Tracy Meehan
(Co-Presenter), Illinois State University, tmeehan@ilstu.edu;
Tracy Meehan has her BS from Southern Methodist University and her Master’s Degree in Administration from National Lewis University. She is currently a faculty instructor at Illinois State University. She serves as the Project Coordinator for a U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation grant that is preparing early intervention professionals to work with young children with hearing loss and their families. Tracy holds an Illinois credential in Early Intervention allowing her to do evaluations and provide direct service to young children with hearing loss and their families. Her 30 year career has been spent working in deaf education at a variety of levels both administrative and educational. She has been a classroom teacher, itinerant teacher, special education administrator and a private educational consultant.
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Lindsay Bondurant
(Co-Presenter), East Tennessee State University, Bondurant@etsu.edu;
Lindsay Bondurant is a pediatric audiologist and Assistant Professor at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Bondurant leads the Pediatric Auditory Testing, Communication, and Habilitation (PATCH) clinic and training program at ETSU, in addition to teaching the Pediatric Audiology, Pediatric Aural Rehabilitation, and Counseling courses In the Doctor of Audiology program. Dr. Bondurant’s research focuses on ways to improve access to hearing healthcare for underserved populations. She is particularly interested in ways that technology can be used to connect service providers and patients (e.g. through Teleaudiology). She has a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Florida, an M.S. in Audiology from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Texas at Dallas. Other research interests include improvement of audiologic screening, diagnostic, and rehabilitative service-delivery models for children and families.
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