2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/07/2023 | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | What am I saying? What my words and actions communicate to parents of DHH children. | DECC 207/208
What am I saying? What my words and actions communicate to parents of DHH children.
Our understanding of what it means to be DHH is socially constructed through our everyday experiences and interactions. At our last EHDI conference, I provided professionals with a self-assessment to examine their beliefs about deafness and how that may be impacting their interactions with families. In this session, we will continue to reflect on these beliefs. I will provide examples from my dissertation where families shared who had the greatest impact on their understanding of deafness. I will also share some stories from these families where EHDI providers’ words and actions toward DHH people felt like an insult to or praise of their DHH child. Together we will brainstorm specific changes that could be made to improve on these situations as well as in our own practice.
- Participants will identify specific words they use that may be harmful.
- Participants will examine their beliefs about people who are DHH.
- Participants will outline specific ways they will modify their words and actions.
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Presenters/Authors
Bettie T. Petersen
(), University of Connecticut, bettie.petersen@uconn.edu;
Bettie got her M.Ed in Deaf Education Early Intervention from Utah State University in 2006. She has been working for the New Mexico School for the Deaf for the past 15 years in Early Intervention. She recently completed her PhD in Educational Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Her passion is supporting parents and their children and helping them realize their potential. She hopes to use her new-found knowledge to do research that gives voice to more families and improves our EHDI programming. To this end, she is working as a Post Doctoral associate at the University of Connecticut and working on the Family ASL Project.
She is also a wife and mother of two. She believes strongly in the power of family.
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