2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/04/2019 | 3:35 PM - 4:05 PM | We Are Hands & Voices: Intro to Guide By Your Side | International F
We Are Hands & Voices: Intro to Guide By Your Side
Guide By Your Side™ (GBYS) is a Hands & Voices (H&V) ™ program that provides emotional support, technical assistance, networking, and unbiased information from trained Parent and Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) Guides to families and to the systems that serve them. There is a comfort level that happens naturally between parents who can relate to the experience of raising a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. Facing the challenges of navigating an unfamiliar service system can be confusing, and the benefit of having someone who’s “been there, done that” is inestimable.
The benefits to starting GBYS include developing trained parent leaders, incorporating parental and deaf and hard of hearing perspectives, and embedding parent/professional collaboration into your Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI), educational, and/or family support systems. This comprehensive approach will strengthen the infrastructure and increase the effectiveness of state/territory systems and their capacity to serve families.
Hands & Voices has a strong, credible reputation for balanced, sensitive, and meaningful family support. Implementing GBYS gives your state/territory the advantage of replicating a successful proven model. Plus, when GBYS Parent Guides and/or D/HH Guides have fulfilled their programmatic contact with families, the local Hands & Voices chapter remains as a source to refer families for networking, information and on-going support. This creates a collaborative model that can build sustainable capacity to support families and their children state/territory wide.
This session will cover the concept of GBYS and its flexibility in application to states/territories and included will be information about an evidenced based model that Hands & Voices is utilizing as a framework for their support to families within the Guide By Your Side program implementation.
- Conference participants will be able to name the guiding principles and the programs goals of the Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side Program
- Conference participants will learn about the the process of starting a Guide By Your Side Program
- Conference participants will be able to identify the different models of program implementation within the current Guide By Your Side Programs
Presentation:
18878_10330LisaKovacs.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10330LisaKovacs.rtf
Presenters/Authors
Lisa Kovacs
(), Hands & Voices , lisakovacs@handsandvoices.org ;
Lisa Kovacs is the Director of Programs for Hands & Voices Headquarters and the Director of the Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. She and her husband Brian have four young adult children including her son who is hard of hearing/deaf. Lisa was the 2019 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence recipient. Her professional interest include; Parent Advocacy; Implementation of parent participation and engagement in systems building; Parent to Parent support; Deaf Education Reform; IDEA, ESSA, Part C and Part B Training to Parents, and Parent Leadership Training and Development.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.