EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
Using Infograms to Support Medical Homes and Parents of Infants and Young Children Who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have challenged connectedness in American society. Precautions to minimize community spread of the COVID-19 virus have sometimes disrupted access to medical care. Many educational and intervention services have periodically transitioned to remote delivery, often resulting in decreased service time. These shifts in medical, educational, and intervention services have placed more responsibility on parents to directly oversee and facilitate their children’s developmental progress.
Parents who are pursuing listening and spoken language (LSL) for their infants and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) require a variety of additional supports. These parents need timely guidance to manage their children’s audiological needs and follow-up audiological care. These parents also need mentoring to identify and effectively implement age-appropriate developmental targets and LSL strategies so progress is ensured.
As many children are raised with two working parents, it is often difficult to align availability for both parents to simultaneously meet with a LSL provider. Infograms on appropriate pediatric audiological care or on LSL-based intervention objectives can be directly sent electronically or posted on social media so that parents can access this important information at their convenience. These infograms can also be easily shared with the child’s extended family or caregivers to encourage widespread support of the child’s spoken language development from the child’s significant adults. Infograms can also be shared with medical homes so that medical providers recognize when to promptly refer patients to pediatric audiologists or to LSL specialists and how to recognize optimal developmental progress.
This poster will outline efforts made by the Sound Beginnings Program at Utah State University to create and share informative and supportive infograms with medical homes and parents of young children who are DHH and use spoken language.
- Participants will identify how they can use infograms to promote awareness among medical homes and parents for the appropriate audiological management of infants and young children with hearing loss.
- Participants will identify how they can use infograms to facilitate parents and other significant adults and to use of LSL strategies for young children who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) and are acquiring spoken language.
- Participants will identify ways they can disseminate infograms to promote public and targeted awareness of supports needed for young children who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH) and are acquiring spoken language.
Poster:
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Presenter: Nicole Jacobson
Nicole Jacobson is the Director of Sound Beginnings at Utah State University. She is also a clinical supervisor for students enrolled in the Listening and Spoken Language Graduate Studies program at Utah State University. She has experience both as a speech-language pathologist and as a special educator and is certified as a listening and spoken language specialist, auditory-verbal educator.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Dana Mork is an undergraduate student at Utah State University in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education. She will complete her bachelor's program in May 2021. Dana will pursue a graduate degree in audiology, with an emphasis in pediatrics.
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