2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/16/2013 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Foundations in Listening and Spoken Language for Infants and Young Children | Aurora A/B | 3
Foundations in Listening and Spoken Language for Infants and Young Children
This interactive session is designed to provide early interventionists and parents with a comprehensive overview of elements that promote optimal acquisition of spoken language through listening by infants and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The session will give parents and interventionists accurate information about hearing and hearing technology; auditory functioning; spoken language communications; child development; family guidance; strategies for listening and spoken language; and educational issues including the acquisition and advancement of literacy. Attendees who are responsible for helping families make informed choices will find this session a valuable resource in their professional development.
- describe the importance of speech perception for developing spoken language.
- list three strategies families can use to enhance the child's listening environment.
- list three educational accommodations that are typically in place for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and use listening and spoken language.
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Presenters/Authors
Judy Harrison
(POC), AG Bell, jharrison@agbell.org;
Judy Harrison is the Interim Executive Director for the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She is an experienced teacher of the deaf and early interventionist specializing with cochlear implants. She currently represents AG Bell on the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing.
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Donald Goldberg
(Primary Presenter), College of Wooster/CCF, dgoldberg@wooster.edu;
Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP/A, FAAA, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the College of Wooster (Oho) and a member of the Professional Staff for the Hearing Implant Program (HIP) at the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute. Goldberg was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Newcastle’s Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) in North Rocks/Sydney Australia from December 2014 through February 2015.
Dr. Goldberg earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida (UF) in 1985; Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from UF in 1979; and his Bachelor’s degree in Biology/Education from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (1977). He has been a university/college professor, the co-director of one of the largest cochlear implant centers in the United States, and is the former Executive Director of the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center, Easton, Pennsylvania.
The co-author of “Educational Audiology for the Limited-Hearing Infant and Preschooler: An Auditory-Verbal Program” (Pollack, Goldberg, & Caleffe-Schenck, 1997), Dr. Goldberg has written numerous book chapters, published a range of research-based and clinical publications, and has been an invited speaker throughout the United States and Canada, along with gracious invitations and opportunities to present in Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, India, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria, England, Israel, and Argentina. Hewas awarded the Honors of the AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in 2018.
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