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3/06/2012 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Closing the Gap: Working With Spanish Speaking Families | Frisco | 3
Closing the Gap: Working With Spanish Speaking Families
Early childhood special education programs are struggling to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations because of language barriers, a lack of understanding of cultural differences and the misguided view of cultural differences as deficits. Durán (2009). This presentation hopes to provide professionals with the tools and the cultural knowledge to improve service delivery to cultural diverse families in particular to Latino families.
- 1)have a deeper understanding of Spanish Speaking Populations 2)will be able to Identify key factors when working with Spanish Speaking populations 3)understand the importance of cultural competence and cultural sensitivity 4) recognize Stereotypes/ ethnocentrism / Biases. 5) How to use an interpreter or cultural broker in a parent session and when administering assessments 5)Recognize a family’s cultural strengths and needs
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Presenters/Authors
Kathryn Bennight
(Co-Presenter), North Carolina Early Intervention for Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, kathryn.bennight@esdb.nc.gov;
Fontbonne University's Early Intervention in Deaf Education program was the opportunity of a lifetime! Working with babies, toddlers, and their families to help ensure children with hearing loss are ready for school, reading, and life is a joy!
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Lucia Quinonez Sumner
(POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author), ELSSP-HI, lucia.sumner@esdb.dpi.nc.gov;
Lucia has a master’s degree in Special Education. She works as a Deaf educator with Early Sensory Support for Children with Hearing Impairments. She is bilingual and has worked in the education and medical field as a professional foreign language interpreter and translator. Her Passion is to advocate for the rights of culturally diverse populations to have equal access & equal quality of care regardless of cultural and languages differences. She enjoys collecting traditional games, rhymes and songs in Spanish to be shared with families and other professionals and created a nursery rhyme DVD for Latino Parents. Lucia created the Merry Christmas Project to deliver toys to children with hearing loss. Lucia is a frequent presenter in state, national & international conferences, has provided training to Head Start, the CDSA, as well as internal training at Early Sensory Support. She has published in the peer reviewed journal JEHDI and in the EHDI e-book & created the “Glossary of Deafness & Audiological Terms -English to Spanish “currently used by Hands and Voices for Spanish speaking families. Lucia’s research areas of interest are cultural competency & sensitivity, bilingual & multilingual development, the role of play in development & issues relating to hearing loss. Lucia was part of the UNC CI team/CARE/Beginnings Planning Committee for the Latino Family Retreat for Families with Children with Hearing Loss & continues to be a member of the EHDI E-book advisory board.
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