19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
SHIFT: Driving Families and Children from Learned Helplessness to Self-Advocacy, Engagement and a Growth Mindset!
With an emphasis on hearing technology and language development upon a diagnosis of hearing loss, parents and by proxy, their children, may fall into the cycle of learned helplessness also known as "taught helplessness."
This can lead to habits and self-fulfilling prophecies that become entrenched algorithms difficult to break. Preventative strategies are best learned by caregivers and support systems who can impart them to their children and clients to continue to use as these children grow, mature and eventually, successfully navigate through life.
This presentation will focus on strategies that parents, early interventionists and audiologists can use to infuse and sow the seeds of motivation, self-confidence and self-advocacy. Through personal stories, video clips, ideas, strategies and exploring the expanded core curriculum for deaf and hard of hearing students, participants will walk away with a template and groundwork from which the fruits of these labors will prosper and grow!
Even if some of this learned helplessness appears already entrenched and "fixed," it is never too late to "shift" into a different gear and growth mindset.
- Participants will recognize and label the signs of learned helplessness in children.
- Participants will give examples of verbal feedback that encourage children to persevere in the face of difficult challenges.
- Participants will describe strategies to "inoculate" children against learned helplessness.
Poster:
21060_12550AndreaAmestoy.pdf
Presenter: Andrea Amestoy
Andrea Amestoy, R.N., has been a pediatric and neonatal intensive care unit nurse and teaches classes at St. Luke’s. She has worked for the past 12 years at Idaho Sound Beginnings as a parent outreach consultant in which she markets and promotes Idaho Sound Beginnings, gives presentations and contacts parents for follow up. In addtion, Andrea works for Idaho Educational Services for the Deaf and Blind with children 0-3 who are blind or visually impaired. She earned her Health Science and Nursing Degrees from Boise State University and is a certified teacher of the blind and visually impaired with a Master's in Special Education from Texas Tech University. She recently completed her orientation and mobility certificate from Texas Tech University in August of 2019. She is the mother of three kids, two of whom have Usher's Syndrome.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Lorna Irwin is the mother of a deaf adult daughter and an Idaho Hands & Voices board member. Her educational background is in biology (MS, University of Utah, 1980), so she brought a hard-science attitude into the business of figuring out how to raise a deaf child. Eventually she figured out that every child, deaf or hearing, is an experiment with an N of one.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Personal interest (parent of deaf adult)
relationship for Board membership.