19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
3/10/2020 | 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Kansas' Language Assessment Program | Chicago C
Kansas' Language Assessment Program
In June 2016, Kansas passed a law which established a language assessment program for children who are deaf/hard of hearing ages birth through eight. The purpose of this program is to assess, monitor, and track the language developmental milestones of these children in both American Sign Language and/or English. This session will provide information on our first two years of the program, including outcome data. Additional information will be shared on the strengths and the challenges of the program. Presenters will share tips related to collaborating with Part C and Part B, strategies for communicating results to families, and ways we are trying to develop a coordinated system to track progress.
- Participants will be able to describe a potential assessment and tracking process.
- Participants will be able to list three strategies for sharing assessment results with families.
- Participants will be able to describe tips they can use for collaborating with both professionals and families.
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Presenters/Authors
Erin Schuweiler
(), Kansas School for the Deaf, eschuweiler@kssdb.org;
Erin Schuweiler, M.S., Ed. is the Sound START (Birth-Three) Coordinator at the Kansas School for the Deaf (KSD). She is also a Language Assessment Program-Deaf/Hard of Hearing (LAP-DHH) specialist. Erin has worked at KSD for 20 years, 2 years as a preschool teacher and 18 years in birth to three. Erin provides services and resources to service providers and families who have children ages birth to three who are deaf and hard of hearing throughout the state of Kansas. Erin graduated from the University of Kansas with a master’s degree in Early Childhood Deaf Education and Early Childhood Special Education.
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Angie Walker
(), Kansas School for the Deaf, awalker@kssdb.org;
Angie Walker is the coordinator of the Kansas School for the Deaf Language Assessment Program-Deaf/Hard of Hearing (LAP-DHH). Ms. Walker is responsible for coordinating the evaluation, collection, and dissemination of aggregated data to key stakeholders as well as providing training and guidance to LAP-DHH specialists. Ms. Walker received her Master of Education degree from Lewis and Clark College in 1998, and she is licensed by the State of Kansas as a teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing and reading specialist. She has worked in deaf education since 1998 and as an educational diagnostician since 2004.
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