19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
The Importance of Parent Involvement: Incorporating Goals and Targets into Everyday Routines
Children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) benefit from language-rich, experiential learning and well as specific and targeted instruction in order to acquire language similar to their typically-hearing peers. Although children who are DHH receive support in their schools, parent involvement can have a major impact on their child’s language, vocabulary, and academic development. By incorporating meaningful and goal-oriented activities into children’s daily routines, parents can provide their child with the necessary support and exposure to learning opportunities that promote language, literacy, and academic foundations in preparation for transition into the kindergarten classroom. This presentation will describe activities parents can utilize in their everyday routines that focus on specific language, literacy, music, and academic targets, including practical suggestions for embedding these activities across environments and within the daily activities of the family. Suggested modifications to the activities will be provided to address age appropriate language for children ranging from 3 years to 5 years of age and suggestions for individualizing the activities relevant for age- and developmentally-appropriate implementation. These examples will expand on daily activities to include specific targets, goals, and embedded learning opportunities.
- Participants will discuss the importance of incorporating goal-focused language, music, literacy and academic foundations into the daily routines of children who are deaf or hard of hearing to promote kindergarten readiness.
- Participants will describe the importance of a child’s critical age of acquisition and how to embed targets across environments to maximize early learning.
- Participants will discuss the stages of children’s milestones from 3 years of age to 5 years of age and identify strategies to incorporate goal-based activities during each developmental stage.
Poster:
21060_12692MarissaPeak.pdf
Presenter: Marissa Peak
Marissa is currently a graduate student at Utah State University. She is studying Deaf Education with a Listening and Spoken Language Emphasis in Early Childhood Education. She has done coursework in preschool and kindergarten classrooms and early intervention as well as interdisciplinary collaboration with pediatric audiology and speech pathology. She will graduate with her Master of Education degree in May 2020.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Lauri Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. She is the Deaf Education Division Chair, the Director of the Listening and Spoken Language Deaf Education graduate training program and Sound Beginnings. She was one of the co-founders of the Hear to Learn website. She has a dual background as both a pediatric audiologist and LSL deaf educator.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.