2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/05/2019 | 11:35 AM - 12:00 PM | No Toy Bag? No Routine? No Problem! Language is Free and Everywhere | Narita A/B
No Toy Bag? No Routine? No Problem! Language is Free and Everywhere
Early intervention is an integral part of helping babies and young children diagnosed with hearing loss access and learn language. Research supports that family-centered, routines-based and strengths- based coaching expands the family’s capacity to support their child’s development. This intervention model eliminates the purpose for the professional to bring a toy bag. Now that professionals have “scrapped the toy bag”, we must analyze current practices to ensure we meet the family in their own time and space and empower them to advance their child’s language development. Are we using the toys they have with our own agenda? How are we engaging the child AND the parent? Are we giving strategies and suggestions that are most important to the family? Whose goals are being met? Furthermore, coaching should encapsulate the family’s own personal values and beliefs represented in their home.
The purpose of this presentation is to identify challenges interventionists encounter when using a family-centered, strengths-based coaching approach. Once identified, participants will collaborate to address these challenges and explore options to implement change. We anticipate through examples, suggestions and reflective conversation, the participants will walk away with practical ideas to enhance delivery of services.
- Participants will breakdown routines and play as they relate to language development in the home.
- Participants will identify current challenges and formulate options to implement change in family sessions.
- Participants will reflect if the strategies and activities given to the family truly mirrors the individual family’s culture.
Presentation:
18878_10300MaureenMallon.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10300EmilyHumphrey.docx
Presenters/Authors
Maureen Mallon
(), Central Institute for the Deaf, mmallon@cid.edu;
Maureen Mallon, MA, CED is a parent educator in the Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center at Central Institute for the Deaf, where she coaches caregivers of children ages birth to three with hearing loss focusing on listening and spoken language strategies. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Central Missouri, and her master’s degree in Early Intervention in Deaf Education from Fontbonne University. Maureen currently serves families in Missouri and Illinois receiving early intervention service.
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Emily Humphrey
(), Central Institute for the Deaf, ehumphrey@cid.edu;
Emily Humphrey MSDE, CED, is a parent educator in the Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center at Central Institute for the Deaf (CID), where she coaches caregivers of children ages birth to three with hearing loss focusing on listening and spoken language strategies. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication Disorders from Southeast Missouri State University and she completed her master’s degree in Deaf Education from Washington University in St. Louis. Emily served as a classroom teacher in the Anabeth and John Weil Early Childhood Center at CID before supporting families in Missouri and Illinois receiving early intervention services.
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