2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
The Birth to Three: Speech, Language, and Communication Assessment
Based on the EHDI 1-3-6 guidelines, children aged birth-3 should be referred to an SLP to assess their speech, language, listening, and communication skills before and/or after receiving hearing aids or cochlear implants. By completing a listening and communication assessment, the SLP can obtain a baseline of listening and communication skills and provide information to the child’s medical team including the audiologist, early interventionist, parent/guardian, pediatrician, and any other necessary members regarding current levels of function. This valuable information plays a crucial role in determining a path for meeting the family's long-term goals for their child’s communication success. Our center’s SLPs utilize a core set of standardized assessments and criterion-referenced measures when assessing our patients that are considering amplification. Our center focuses on assessing and treating the whole child which includes his/her auditory, speech, receptive and expressive language, cognitive and social skills. We will outline each assessment used to target these various skill areas as well as parent education tools that accompany the evaluation. A structured diagnostic plan will be provided along with exerts of reports and recommendations our center provides.
- Participants will identify assessments and criterion-referenced measures used to assess communication in a diagnostic session.
- Participants will describe parent education tools to be used in a diagnostic session.
- Participants will describe highlighted diagnostic session and outcomes.
Poster:
3353554_14868JestinaBunch.pdf
Presenter: Ashley Irick
Ashley Irick is an Instructor in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Ashley practices in the Child Hearing Services clinic in Knoxville. She specializes in pediatric Aural Habilitation for children who use hearing aids and cochlear implants, aural/oral communication assessments, pre- and post-cochlear implant evaluations, family guidance and education, adult cochlear implant auditory training, and auditory processing disorders.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Jestina Bunch has been with UTHSC since August 2015 as a Clinical Assistant Professor serving children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing. Mrs. Bunch provides aural/oral evaluation, auditory training, and aural rehabilitation treatment to individuals who use cochlear implants and hearing aids.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Autumn Sanderson is an Instructor in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. Autumn practices in the Child Hearing Services clinic in Knoxville. She specializes in pediatric Aural Habilitation for children who use hearing aids and cochlear implants, aural/oral communication assessments, pre- and post-cochlear implant evaluations, family guidance and education, adult cochlear implant auditory training, and auditory processing disorders.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.