15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
| - | 1 - EHDI Program Enhancement
Deconstructing Bias: The Impact of Privilege on EHDI Services & Outcomes
Since the mass media coverage of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York, and the Charleston massacre, issues of bias, privilege, and oppression have become hot topics in our society. Members of marginalized, underrepresented, and underprivileged groups are addressing organizations and helping professionals, identifying explicit and implicit ways in which they need different systems of support or collaboration. Questions regarding diversity, accessibility, and inclusion are rampant—and they are relevant to EHDI. How due issues of explicit, implicit, and systematic racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and audism impact our services and outcomes? When we explore these –isms and experiences of oppression, we find that people are experiencing heightened nervous system arousal—increased blood pressure, heart rate, sweating, and alertness. This physiological response may indicate issues of privilege and oppression as an experience of reciprocal relational trauma—both people enter a state of fight or flight. As service providers, we all have areas of bias, expertise, and comfort—how do we work with clients and patients who exist outside of our norms? This breakout session will gently explore these questions and introduce means of nervous system regulation with participants. We anticipate that this information will be helpful to providers wishing to revise or pursue accessibility, inclusion, and social justice in the EHDI context.
- Name and discuss patterns of privilege in the EHDI system.
- Identify markers of nervous system arousal in self and in others.
- Practice methods of nervous system regulation in order to stay in relationship when issues of privilege and oppression arise.
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Presenters/Authors
Leala Holcomb
(Co-Presenter), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, lholcom5@vols.utk.edu;
Leala used to be a preschool and family education teacher working with young Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and their families. Leala created a new enterprise called Hands Land with two other colleagues focusing on developing educational resources through rhymes and rhythms. Leala is currently a first year Ph.D. student at the University of Tennessee conducting research on the benefits of rhymes and rhythms for young Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. Leala also provides professional consultations to schools inside and outside the United States.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
Has a Professional (Cooperating a project to create educational resources for young children)
relationship for Volunteer employment.
Jonathan McMillan
(Co-Presenter), Hands Land, mcmillanx@gmail.com;
Hailing from Washington, D.C., Jonathan McMillan has a Master’s Degree in Sign Language Education and two Bachelor’s Degrees in Sociology and Communication Studies. Being an inveterate traveler, he has participated in various organizations such as AmeriCorps, Global Deaf Connection and World Federation of the Deaf to promote better education and quality of life for Deaf youth throughout the world. In addition to his extensive outreach work in India, Kenya, Venezuela, Finland, and USA, he spent a year as a visiting Research Assistant at Boston University for an ongoing research to assess ASL knowledge and its relationship to English reading in Deaf Children. With a team of people who specialize in Education, Linguistics, and Family Therapy, he is currently working on a project that focuses on developing ASL Rhymes and Rhythms digital resources for young children. He is presently a lecturer with the Communication Studies department at Gallaudet University.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Jessica Dallman
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), Natural Wisdom Counseling, jessicadallmancounseling@gmail.com;
Jessica Dallman is a tri-lingual (English, ASL, Spanish) mental health counselor based out of Boulder, Colorado. She is passionate about weaving together her trainings as a wilderness therapist (Naropa University), special education teacher (Teach for America), and early interventionist (Gallaudet University) to serve her clients and the community. She has an interdisciplinary, relational, and social justice framework that she brings to all of her work. In her free time, Jess can be found rock climbing, hiking with her Great Dane, meditating, reading, dancing, or volunteering.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.