2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
Small Town Practice: The Benefits and Risks of Being an Insider
Providing services to ensure the best child outcomes is a task that all professionals strive to achieve, and being a small town, local provider can have its risk and reward. Working as a Teacher of the Deaf or a Speech-Language Pathologist in a small town means that you are the specialist that people look to. Being that specialist, you have to build rapport with parents, as well as strive to be viewed as a professional. Providers and parents answered a variety of questions regarding the benefits and challenges of providing/receiving services, collaboration experiences and lack thereof, as well as boundaries that arise or need to be addressed.
- Identify professional perspectives on benefits and challenges, collaboration, and boundaries when providing services in a small, local to the provider town.
- Identify parent/caregiver perspectives on benefits and challenges, collaboration, and boundaries when receiving services in a small, local to the parent/caregiver town.
- Identify implications for practice to ensure the best child outcomes.
Poster:
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Presenter: Allison Heideman
Allison Heideman, BS SLPA is a speech-language pathology graduate student at Fontbonne University, where she has received OSEP-funding to specialize in the provision of family-centered early intervention for children who are deaf/hard of hearing and their families. Heideman is interested in family-based interventions and seeks to serve infants and toddlers and their families upon graduation.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.