2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/05/2012 | 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM | Project ASPIRE Update: Developing a Parent-Directed Curriculum for Underserved Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-hearing | Burlington Route | 3
Project ASPIRE Update: Developing a Parent-Directed Curriculum for Underserved Children who are Deaf or Hard-of-hearing
In the field of pediatric cochlear implantation (PCI), socioeconomic status (SES) has been established as an important determinant of outcomes. Through a Department of Education IES grant, the University of Chicago is developing an evidence-based, parent directed program to address this significant health disparity. Project ASPIRE (Achieving Superior Parental Involvement for Rehabilitative Excellence) is being created as a behavior-change intervention which seeks to improve language development in children with hearing loss and from low SES by increasing parental language output. The foundation of this project is a combination of education, LENA technology, and a novel behavioral strategy we term “linguistic feedback.” Project ASPIRE merges the provision of pragmatic knowledge and skills related to having a child with hearing loss (e.g. Ling Six, implant trouble shooting, wear time etc) with the novel approach of using LENA-provided linguistic feedback as a tool to increase parental language output. We describe our iterative approach to this multimedia, behavior change intervention including the development of animation, video modeling and formative testing. Examples of the multimedia curriculum will be demonstrated as well as pilot data.
- Understand the iterative approach used in the development of Project ASPIRE. Understand the concept of behavior change and behavior change strategies employed in Project ASPIRE with focus on the LENA.
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Dana Suskind
(), University of Chicago Medicine, dsuskind@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu;
Dr. Suskind is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics in the Section of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and directs the Pediatric Cochlear Implantation Program at the University of Chicago. Her research is dedicated to addressing health disparities, specifically early language disparities, through the development of novel multimedia intervention programs that combine parent education with quantitative linguistic feedback. She has conceptualized and initiated development and evaluation of two parent-directed, home-visiting interventions: Project ASPIRE and the Thirty Million Words Project. These interventions, for parents of children with hearing loss and parents of typically developing children respectively, aim to improve child outcomes through parent enrichment of the early language environment.
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Beth Suskind
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author), University of Chicago, bsuskind@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu;
Beth Suskind has a background in television development including executive production of HGTV and Bravo shows prior to turning her experience and talent into intervention development and testing.
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Kristin Leffel
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Chicago, kleffel@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu;
Research Assistant at the University of Chicago
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Shannon Sapolich
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Chicago, ssapolic@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu;
Research Assistant Project ASPIRE
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Mary Ellen Nevins
(Co-Presenter,Author), Consultant, maryellen.nevins@gmail.com;
Mary Ellen Nevins, Ed.D., is an experienced educator of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. A professional learning specialist, her attention to, and publications regarding professional learning for hearing and speech professionals, complement her longstanding work with children using hearing technologies to listen, think, talk and read. Nevins is recognized as a national expert on educational issues associated with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and the needs of the professionals with whom they work.
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Teresa Caraway
(Co-Presenter,Author), Hearing First, tcaraway@hearingfirst.org;
Dr. Teresa Caraway, CEO Hearing First, an educational endeavor of the Oberkotter Foundation, is leading the effort to improve outcomes for children and their families through family and professional support and learning. She is the Founder and President of Learning Innovation Associates, and the Founder of Hearts for Hearing. A Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist, Dr. Caraway served as the founding President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and as a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance. She has previously served as a Director of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, and Auditory-Verbal International. She has been recognized by her peers for outstanding clinical skills. A former Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Dr. Caraway is an international consultant and skillful workshop presenter on teaching spoken language through listening.
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• Receives Salary for Employment from Hearing First.
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• Has a Professional (Certified LSLS Cert. AVT ) (Founding President )
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• Has a Professional (Founding Board Member; Member)
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• Has a Professional (Certified SLP; Member)
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Sally Tannenbaum-Katsaggelos
(Co-Presenter,Author), The University of Chicago, Comer Children's Hospital, stannenbaum@surgery.bsd.uchicago.edu;
Sally Tannenbaum-Katsaggelos is Co-Director of the Pediatric Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implant Program at The University of Chicago Medicine, Comer Children's Hospital. She has been working with children with hearing loss for over 30 years and received the 1999 Helen Beebe Award for Outstanding Therapist. In addition, Sally is a Developmental Therapist specializing with children with hearing loss in the state of Illinois. She has contributed to several books on pediatric hearing loss and lectures both nationally and internationally.
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