19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
3/10/2020 | 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Parents, ACT! Empowering Parents to Build Language at Home | Chouteau A
Parents, ACT! Empowering Parents to Build Language at Home
Family engagement is a key factor in achieving successful language and communication outcomes for children with hearing loss. Families must ACT! Although there are many resources and services available to parents and caregivers, these families are often overwhelmed by the learning and decision making required at the onset of a diagnosis. It is crucial that parents not only take advantage of support services and resources, but also that they assume an active role in their child’s language acquisition and development. It is not just up to the professionals in the field; it is essential that parents take responsibility to make their child’s language acquisition and development a major, daily priority. This session, given by parents for parents, will focus on strategies parents can use to do this easily and successfully. All parents can and should learn to maximize their resources to best fit their child’s needs.
Parents and caregivers should understand there are many beneficial practices that can be seamlessly weaved into daily living. Simple strategies can be used that encourage children to practice and play with speech and/or sign in ways that promote language development in a meaningful way. Intentionally integrating a few key practices during play, reading, and all other activities can have enormous benefits, creating an effective communication culture in the home. Also, understanding a few key elements of speech such as: stress, tone, duration, pitch, loudness, rhythm and intonation, can empower parents to promote their child’s speech language skills during every interaction. These practices can become a natural part of daily communication in the home.
This presentation will empower parents to “ACT” - Accept Assistance, Create Communication Culture, and Teach Talk! Parents, caregivers, and professionals welcome!
- A - Accept Assistance: Participants will understand how parents/caregivers can maximize the impact of available resources and support services available to families of children with hearing loss.
- C – Create Communication Culture: Participants will identify simple strategies for promoting language development during reading, play, and daily home routines.
- T – Teach Talk: Participants will identify and practice key elements of speech to use in daily home living to promote speech language acquisition and development.
Presentation:
21060_12641HarmonyJarratt.pdf
Handouts:
21060_12641HarmonyJarratt.pdf
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Harmony Jarratt
(), KSD, Parent, caleb.harmony@gmail.com;
Harmony Jarratt is an educator who spent 10 years teaching in the Olathe Public Schools. She currently stays home with her 2 ½ year-old son, Canaan, who is deaf and has Cochlear Implants. Her husband, Caleb, is a vascular access nurse in the Kansas City area. They speak and sign in the home. Aside from taking care of family, she spends most of her time learning ASL and about deaf culture in order to provide her son the “best of both worlds” while being deaf in his hearing family. Harmony recently began Canaan’s Collective to collect and distribute hearing aid and Cochlear Implant accessories to families with children who are deaf/hh. She is also proud to be a parent representative on the EDHI Advisory Committee.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.