2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/05/2019 | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Creating a University-Hospital Partnership to Prepare Early Intervention Professionals to Work with Children with Cochlear Implants and Their Families | International D/E
Creating a University-Hospital Partnership to Prepare Early Intervention Professionals to Work with Children with Cochlear Implants and Their Families
Many early intervention providers lack appropriate training and skills to be able to serve young children who are deaf and using cochlear implants. Providers lack information in two primary areas: 1) understanding the implant devices, the audiological implications and the implant surgery, and 2) how to provide family-centered intervention to the child and family both pre- and post-implantation. The AIM to Be Ahead early intervention deaf/hard of hearing graduate program at Illinois State University documented these needs through pre-surveys of the graduate students enrolled in the program and realized that the ideal training program to meet these needs would include a partnership between a cochlear implant center and the university training program. After months of planning, the partnership was established. The hospital provided CI surgery observations, aural rehabilitation, speech-language therapy, initial implant stimulation and ongoing mapping observations, as well as staff who served as guest lecturers on audiological management of implants. The University provided early intervention coursework, set up and supervised home and clinic-based practicum experiences, and developed competency-based student assessments. Post-survey data indicated an increase in knowledge and skills related to cochlear implants and serving families both pre and post-implantation. We anticipate that the sharing of the process which led to partnership implementation, along with student assignments and assessment data from both sites, will be helpful to early intervention training programs and cochlear implant centers across the U.S. that wish to develop collaborative partnerships.
- After reviewing a step-by-step process for partnership development, participants will identify potential barriers to implementation in their states.
- When shown student assessment measures collected from implant center and university site assignments, participants will suggest additional measures they might use.
- At the conclusion of the presentation, participants will make a list of cochlear implant centers or university deaf education training programs in their states with whom they could collaborate in the training of early intervention professionals.
Presentation:
18878_10468MaribethLartz.pdf
18878_10468TracyMeehan.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10468MaribethLartz.docx
Presenters/Authors
Maribeth Lartz
(), Illinois State University, mnlartz@ilstu.edu;
Maribeth Nelson Lartz, Ph.D., is professor and coordinator of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Teacher Preparation Program at Illinois State University. She is the Principal Investigator for LIMITLESS, a U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation grant that prepares early intervention professionals to work with young children with hearing loss and their families. Dr. Lartz received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to working at Illinois State University, Dr. Lartz was a classroom teacher of children with hearing loss in Texas.
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Tracy Meehan
(), Illinois State University, tmeehan@ilstu.edu;
Tracy Meehan has her BS from Southern Methodist University and her Master’s Degree in Administration from National Lewis University. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. She has served as the Project Coordinator for two separate U.S. Department of Education personnel preparation grants that focused on preparing early intervention professionals to work with young children with hearing loss and their families and vision loss and their families. Tracy holds an Illinois credential in Early Intervention allowing her to do evaluations and provide direct service to young children with hearing loss and their families. Her 40 year career has been spent working in deaf education at a variety of levels both administrative and educational. She has been a classroom teacher, itinerant teacher, special education administrator and a private educational consultant.
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Nancy Young
(), Lurie Children's Hospital Cochlear Implant Center, young.nancy@comcast.net;
Nancy M. Young, M.D., is the Lillian S. Wells Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is head of the Section of Otology and Neurotology, and Research Director, in the Division of Otolaryngology at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a Fellow of the Knowles Hearing Center and an affiliate member of the Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences of the Northwestern University.
Dr. Young founded the Lurie Children’s pediatric cochlear implant program, one of the largest in the United States. She is a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. She co-edited, with Karen Iler Kirk PhD, Pediatric Cochlear Implantation: Learning and the Brain, published in 2016. Dr. Young’s current research collaborations are focused on use of brain neuroimaging to predict language outcomes after cochlear implantation.
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