2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/06/2012 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Parents Becoming Professional Providers for Children with Hearing Loss: A Dual Perspective | Missouri Pacific | 6
Parents Becoming Professional Providers for Children with Hearing Loss: A Dual Perspective
Approximately 90% of deaf children are born to hearing parents. The vast majority of these parents have little knowledge/experience with regard to hearing loss. For this reason, many parents experience elevated levels of stress and grief as well as feelings of inadequacy. Parents are seen as the key players in the identification of hearing loss, the early intervention process, and in entering the mainstream educational setting. Unfortunately, many parents don’t see themselves this way. As professionals in the field whether it be in audiology, early intervention, Deaf education, or speech pathology, it is important to remember that all parents come to us with a varied amount of information regarding hearing loss, medical/educational terminology, and the choices that are available to them. We as professionals need to focus on empowering parents to realize their roles and the immense impact they can have on their children in their ability to develop language and experience success in all aspects of their lives. Two professionals, a Deaf Educator and a Speech Language Pathologist, chose their careers because of their experience as parents of children with hearing loss. Having sat on both sides of the clinical/therapy table; first as parent and then professional, both individuals possess a unique perspective that enables them to guide and empower families smoothly through the early intervention and educational processes. Both professionals will share how their dual perspective has helped them to better serve their students and their families. The presentation will consist of personal experiences and video clips from their children’s hearing journey, their experience entering professions involving hearing loss, and a video experiment showing what the average person knows about hearing loss and the related terminology.
- * Parents will feel empowered to take the lead in their child's early language development. *Professionals will have a better understanding of parent perspective.
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Presenters/Authors
Marge Edwards
(POC,Co-Presenter,Author), Sound Beginnings of Utah State University, Marge.edwards@usu.edu;
Marge Edwards is a Speech Language Pathologist for the Sound Beginnings birth to three program and has been providing services via Teleintervention to families for three years. She received her Bachelor’s and Masters degrees at Utah State University in Speech Language Pathology. As part of her Master’s Degree, she received specialized training in facilitating auditory learning and spoken language. Her interest in speech language pathology, hearing loss and auditory learning began when she had two sons with hearing loss. After growing up in Colorado, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland and living in Idaho, she has moved to Logan with her husband and two sons to be a part of the Sound Beginnings program.
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Ali Devey
(POC,Primary Presenter,Author), Utah State University, ali.devey@usu.edu;
Ali Devey received her Master’s degree in Deaf Education from the University of Arizona. She has been teaching for the past 9 years. Her interest in the field developed upon learning that her own daughter was born with a severe to profound hearing loss. She has taught at Desert Voices Oral Learning Center, ASDB,was the Program Coordinator at Sound Beginnings at Utah State University, and is currently the toddler classroom teacher and the Family Support Specialist at Sound Beginnings. She has a passion for serving families who have children with hearing loss and feels it is a way she can “give back” after her daughter received such phenomenal services on her path to listening and spoken language.
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