2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
3/06/2023 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Ensuring Cultural Competency in Early Intervention with our D/HH Families | DECC 230/231
Ensuring Cultural Competency in Early Intervention with our D/HH Families
With approximately one million immigrants arriving in the United States each year, the United States population has become increasingly diverse where families speak a language other than English at home. In 2020, the Pew Research Center found the number of immigrants to the United States has more than quadrupled since 1965, which accounts for roughly one-fifth of the world’s migrants today. This number is projected to double by 2065.
Immigrant families have their own cultures with unique beliefs traditions, rituals, artifacts, activities, languages, practices, and communities that differ from the mainstream American culture. Culture drives the activities, beliefs, expectations, and routines of families. To best serve our diverse families, we need to understand not only their individual cultural beliefs and values but also their knowledge, beliefs and views about hearing differences. Being culturally competent means we need to be aware of any implicit or explicit personal bias while being respectful and embracing diverse cultural perspectives and traditions, along with understanding and effectively interacting with ethnic families supporting their D/HH child. We become better equipped to provide meaningful services for our families, as they are more willing to connect with us. The presenter is a trilingual deaf early interventionist in an urban setting and has a background in childhood mental health.
In addition to highlighting the importance of cultural competency in our work with our multicultural families with young D/HH children, recommendations on developing and implementing culturally responsive practices will be shared. An overview on common cultural beliefs about hearing difference, working effectively with interpreters, and typical stumbling blocks will be addressed. Fostering cultural competency while incorporating these strategies will help increase the likelihood of a successful partnership between yourself and your diverse families.
- Participants will receive an overview of immigration to the United States, understand the cultural make up of the United States and the projected growth of these cultures and languages over the next 40 years.
- Attendees will understand the importance of cultural competency and identify recommendations on developing and implementing culturally responsive practices to incorporate in their interactions with diverse families.
- Participants will be able to describe common cultural beliefs on hearing differences, identify typical stumbling blocks, and examine tips on how to optimize their work with interpreters, which will lend to increased positive communication and interactions with families.
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Robin Getz
(), CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program), rlgetz@csdb.org;
Robin Getz, MA, is a Colorado Hearing Resource Coordinator (CO-Hear) with the CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program) program through the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. She supports urban families with newly identified children, birth to three years of age. Profoundly deaf from birth, Robin began her formal education in Puerto Rico at a bilingual Spanish/English school for Kindergarten and 1st grade before moving back to NYC where she was born. She has lived in many places nationally, and internationally as a child. She earned a double major in Psychology; and Communication Disorders and Speech Sciences for her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds two Master's Degrees: Mental Health Counseling from Gallaudet University, and Deaf Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Robin began her professional career as a licensed Mental Health Therapist, which she practiced for about 8 years, until she realized her heart was in the early intervention field. She has worked as an early interventionist with the CHIP program for 22 years.
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