2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/10/2015 | 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | It's a Learning Curve: Parents as Adult Learners | Breathitt | 7
It's a Learning Curve: Parents as Adult Learners
In her keynote address at the 2014 Hands & Voices Leadership Conference, Tina Childress an educational audiologist shared that only 2% of professionals refer parents to Parent Support programs.
Meanwhile, National Early Childhood Intervention Council (NECIC) president Datuk Dr. Amar Singh offers his opinion in an article, Parents Must Speak Up, Say Early Childhood Intervention Advocates by The Star Online reporter Tan Yi Liang. He offers, 'They [parents] are a force we have not adequately invested in, especially parents of children with disabilities. They have been viewed as aid recipients. But they are not recipients, they are partners and advocates - and they are a loud voice that can inspire other parents'.
A parent is the fulcrum behind every successful child. Yet, learning their child is deaf or hard of hearing comes with a host of steep learning curves. How then do parents learn the necessary elements to become strong advocates for their child? What are the essential components required for parent engagement to take place? Why is it vital for parents to connect with one another for support?
In this presentation adult-learning theories and assumptions will be defined. Participants will actively become aware of how their own lifelong learning has influenced their successes or created barriers. Lastly, participants will together travel through a transformative learning activity that will demonstrate how unique we all are during challenging situations.
This information will be helpful to family members validating their experiences as an essential ingredient to becoming an informed and engaged parent. It will also provide context for professionals identifying parent-to-parent support as a vital component to parent engagement.
- Attendees will understand Formal, Non-Formal and Informal learning and some basics about learning theories that influence our learning in adulthood.
- Participants will have an understanding of a Lifelong Learning Map to redefine how adult learning occurs.
- Participants will walk through a transformational learning experience. Having a better understanding of the integral components of transformational learning and how this uniquely impacts parents of deaf or hard of hearing children.
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Presenters/Authors
Christine Griffin
(Primary Presenter,POC), Washington State Hands & Voices, christine.griffin@wahandsandvoices.org;
Christine is the mother of two deaf and hard of hearing young adults. She's worked supporting parents for the past 17 years and is the program coordinator of Washington State Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side Program.
Over the years, she has worked closely with Washington State's EHDDI program as a parent leader.
Christine earned a Masters of Education in Adult Learning with focus on parents as adult learners.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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