2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/10/2015 | 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Tossing out the Toys: Goal Driven Therapy in a Natural Environment | Clements | 4
Tossing out the Toys: Goal Driven Therapy in a Natural Environment
With the advent of tele-intervention and the transition in early intevention from clinician directed therapy to natural settings, it is important for therapists working with children with hearing loss to maintain a focus on specific speech, language, audition, cognition, literacy and parent guidance goals that follow typical developmental patterns. This presentation will address the research behind therapy in the natural environment, barriers and successes of the approach, and use video of early intervention and tele-intervention sessions to analyze the development of spoken language in a natural environment. Group discussion will include how to address specific goals while using items found within the home and through daily acitivities.
- Learner will be able to discuss the pros and cons of using only items found within the natural environment based on the current literature and regulations for early intervention and tele-intervention.
- Learner will be able to analyze video of early interventionist and tele-interventionist using items within the natural environment to address specific language, speech, audition, cognition, literacy, and parent guidance goals.
- Learner will be able to develop a list of activities to use within the natural environment addressing specific language, speech, audition, cognition, literacy, and parent guidance goals.
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Presenters/Authors
Lillian Henderson
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,POC), Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC, lillian.henderson@unchealth.unc.edu;
Lillian Henderson, M.S.P., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT, earned a Master’s Degree from the University of South Carolina in Speech Pathology and is a LSLS Certified Auditory Verbal Therapist. Lillian works with cochlear implant recipients providing therapy and diagnostics to children who are deaf or hard of hearing learning spoken language. Lillian has also provided training to professionals throughout the United States and graduate students from various universities. She is a consultant with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss in Vietnam.
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Hannah Eskridge
(Co-Presenter), Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC, heskridg@unch.unc.edu;
Hannah Eskridge, MSP, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert AVT, is the NCFI/ Barnhardt CASTLE Director an associate professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has been working with children with hearing loss and their families for over 10 years and became certified in auditory verbal therapy in 2005. She directs the Professional Training Program as well as coordinates staff and various other programs. Hannah also conducts Listening and Spoken language parent participation sessions and tele-therapy sessions through the UNC REACH program.
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Cindy Boyd
(Co-Presenter), Early Learning Sensory Support Program for Children with Hearing Impairments, cindy.boyd@esdb.dpi.nc.gov;
Cindy Boyd is an Early Intervention Teacher for children who are deaf or hard of hearing for the state of North Carolina. She has been a teacher for twenty years, and has taught children from birth through third grade. She currently teaches children birth to three as an itinerant teacher, and the bulk of her experience has been teaching in this age range. She is passionate about helping children who are deaf/ hard of hearing and their families. Her goal is to help each child achieve age appropriate language by the time they turn three. She has had experience with Total Communication, ASL, Bi/Bi, and Auditory Verbal Therapy. Cindy has a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, Birth to Kindergarten Education, and Education of Children who are deaf or hard of hearing. The past few years her developing passion is the use of teaching through daily routines in natural environments. She has co-presented at the National EHDI conference in 2015, provided training to the CDSA, and internal training at the Early Learning Sensory Support Program.
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