2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/06/2012 | 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Tennessee CARE Workshop Tour - Planning and Implementing CARE Training through Statewide Collaboration | Burlington Route | 6
Tennessee CARE Workshop Tour - Planning and Implementing CARE Training through Statewide Collaboration
In 2011, Tennessee’s Newborn Hearing Screening Program recognized that professionals statewide who are involved in the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) process needed updated training on the grief that parents experience after discovering their child has hearing loss. In the same year, Tennessee launched a new Hands & Voices chapter, and discussions among parents revealed a significant desire to help one another during the difficult stages of grieving. As a result, the “Tennessee CARE Workshop Tour” offered coordinated training workshops to meet the needs and desires of EHDI providers and parents statewide. CARE (Counseling Aural Rehabilitation and Education) is a multidimensional tool that addresses the grief associated with hearing loss for individuals, families, communities, professionals and pre-professionals. The training stresses the importance of engaging in active listening with family members to validate their emotional state, a counseling skill that is often not included in professional pre-service or parent-to-parent training courses. The presentation will discuss the collaborative effort between various Tennessee EHDI stakeholders, including parents, which made it possible to plan and host the workshops in a short period of time. It will also address how CARE is currently being implemented across Tennessee in different environments such as early intervention programs, educational facilities, hospitals, and universities. Outcomes of the statewide CARE training were documented and will be reviewed, including the perspective of Tennessee’s Hands & Voices Lead Parent, who is not only the mother of a preschooler with hearing loss but also a hospital newborn hearing screener.
- -define the core elements of CARE training; -determine the extent to which CARE training could benefit individuals, families, communities, professionals, and pre-professionals in their state who are associated with hearing loss; -describe ways to collaborate with EHDI stakeholders in their state to plan coordinated CARE workshops; -describe how CARE training can be implemented with families or individuals in at least 3 different environments; and -describe the impact that CARE training had on a parent of a preschooler with hearing loss.
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Presenters/Authors
Johnnie Sexton
(Co-Presenter), The CARE Project, johnnie@thecareproject.com;
Johnnie Sexton Au.D. has worked with children who are deaf and hard of hearing for 40+ years. With the passage of the Newborn Hearing Screening mandate in North Carolina, he designed the early intervention system for audiology in North Carolina. He has devoted his energy in the past 8 years to redefining counseling for families with children who have hearing challenges and the professionals who provide services for them. He owns a private practice specializing in educational audiology services and has established the nonprofit agency, The CARE Project, Inc., serving as Executive Director, for the advancement of family, professional and preprofessional training opportunities in counseling.
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Susie McCamy
(Co-Presenter), Tennessee Newborn Hearing Screening Program, smccamy@utk.edu;
Susie McCamy is the Deaf Educator / Family Outreach Coordinator at the University of Tennessee Center on Deafness Newborn Hearing (EHDI) Grant which helps provide support, information, training and resources for parents of newly identified children with hearing loss. Susie collects needed child & family data for the HRSA and CDC grants at the TN State Department of Health's Newborn Hearing (EHDI) program. Her responsibilities include partnering with lead parents to help in the development of Family Support endeavors / activities / trainings for families of children with hearing loss throughout Tennessee. Her 30 plus years of experience in the field include being a Parent Advisor / Statewide Supervisor of a home based program for 0-3 children with special needs & their families; TEIS Advisory Consortium. Ms. McCamy is a certified Ski*HI trainer and has served on multiple committees and Boards associated with the field of Early Childhood Special Education.
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Julie Beeler
(POC,Co-Presenter), University of Tennessee Health Science Center, jbeeler8@utk.edu;
Julie Beeler is the Program Liaison at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology in Knoxville. She is also an adjunct instructor for the College of Deaf Education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Melanie Bacon
(Co-Presenter), TN GBYS Program Coordinator, mbacon@tndisability.org;
Melanie is the Program Coordinator for the Guide By Your Side Program in TN. She lives in Memphis,with her two daughters. Her youngest, 7 year old Morgan, was born with bilateral severe to profound hearing loss. Upon learning of her daughter's hearing loss, Melanie's first response was to seek out other parents. She turned to the professionals serving her family, asking about parent support groups, to no avail. She then connected with TN Department of Health EHDI and began working to establish a Chapter of Hands & Voices in TN. In Sept. of 2011, the TN Chapter of Hands & Voices was officially formed. Melanie was the Director of TN Hands & Voices for 3 years and then transitioned into the role of Policies & Procedures for the organization. Other positions include: Baptist Hospital performing Newborn Hearing Screens and Office Manager for the Interpreting Service for the Deaf in Memphis.
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