15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/15/2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Topical Session 7 | Pacific Salon 4/5 | 7 - Family Perspectives and Support
Keeping Our Youngest Children Safe: A Softer Approach to a Tough Topic
Our deaf and hard of hearing children are at a higher risk for child maltreatment, from babyhood to young adulthood. Most adults avoid the topic, resulting in a lack of awareness and understanding of maltreatment risk factors and prevention strategies. While conference presentations, newspaper articles, and Webinars help, the learning opportunities are simply too infrequent, too brief, and occasionally too disconcerting to effectively inform and involve parents (or the professionals who serve them) in maltreatment prevention efforts.
This presentation will share how the design, creation and sharing of quilts can provide an informal, ongoing, visually rich, and emotionally comfortable context to discuss, learn, and share how to enhance the safety and success of our children. Participants will leave with strategies about developing their own quilting project, understanding the concepts of prevention, and evaluating their own expertise in identifying and reporting maltreatment in their role as parents or professionals.
- Attendees will identify at least three maltreatment prevention concepts as illustrated on the quilts or in the presentation.
- Participants will examine three strategies to develop a quilt for their own region to to share this information with parents and professionals in a visually rich, comfortable environment, whether in the design phase or during display and discussion. (Quilts may also be available on loan if this is not practical.)
- Participants will evaluate their own level of expertise in identifying and reporting maltreatment in their role as parents or professionals.
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Presenters/Authors
Sara Kennedy
(Primary Presenter), Colorado Hands & Voices, Sara@cohandsandvoices.org;
Sara is a mom of four children, including a daughter who was born at home and later identified with a profound hearing loss. An occupational therapist by training, Sara has worked for Hands & Voices since 2000, currently serving as the Colorado chapter director and the editor for the quarterly newspaper, the Communicator, at the Headquarters level. Sara has a special interest in advocating for hearing screening in the homebirth community. She was a coauthor for the handbook Bridge to Preschool: Navigating a Successful Transition as well as articles and presentations on teaching our deaf/hh children about sex, promoting self advocacy, progressive hearing loss, and the decision process regarding cochlear implants. She finds parenting teenagers to be an even bigger challenge.
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Kellie Berger
(Co-Presenter), Texas Hands & Voices, kellie@txhandsandvoices.org;
Kellie is the Executive Director of the Texas Chapter of Hands & Voices and is a past board member and Parent Guide in the Texas Guide By Your Side program. Kellie was the parent advisor for the Texas NICHQ IHSIS project. She & her husband have three children, her two daughters each have a moderate/severe hearing loss.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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