2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/03/2019 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Strategies for Engaging Parents in Early Intervention Sessions | Vienna
Strategies for Engaging Parents in Early Intervention Sessions
Early Intervention services provided under IDEA are to be provided in the child’s natural environment. As such, it is critical that the focus of these sessions is based on the routines, activities, and materials available in the child’s natural environment. This session will provide participants with real-life examples of why practitioners need to leave their toys and materials at home and justification for why it is not appropriate to bring the professional’s personal items into a family’s home. This presentation will provide session participants with the parent perspective on participating in parent support using this philosophical approach. The parent perspective will be gained through video clips of parent comments related to the following topics:
1. The manners in which parents are motivated to attend and participate in coaching sessions, including developing relationships and gaining trust.
2. The manners in which parents feel supported by the early interventionist, including real-time embedded feedback and reflection.
3. The manners in which parents find benefit to collaborating with professional, including joint planning.
This presentation will describe for the participants, through lecture, discussion, video clips, and small group discussion how parent-professional collaboration is a highly effective approach to supporting parents in their efforts to accelerate language development in their child who is deaf or hard of hearing.
- 1. At the end of this session, participants will be able to list key elements for engaging parents in Early Intervention sessions.
- 2. At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe at least three factors which motivate parents to engage in parent support sessions.
- 3. At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe components of parent support sessions that are important to parents.
Presentation:
18878_10216Betsy MoogBrooks.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10216BetsyMoogBrooks.rtf
Presenters/Authors
Judy Schlesinger
(), The Moog Center for Deaf Education, jschlesinger@moogcenter.org;
Judy has been in the field of deaf education for more than 25 year. She has worked as a supervisor of other teachers, has extensive experience working with student teachers, has lectured for graduate courses, and is an experienced teacher in the field of Early Intervention. In addition to teaching in the Family School program at the Moog Center where she provides direct service to children, helping them to develop spoken language skills, Judy has also taught in the preschool and in the primary department working to enhance the students' academic skills. She works with families, helping parents develop strategies and techniques for teaching their children with hearing loss to talk. Judy participates in the Moog Center for Deaf Education Teleschool program and provides services to families via the internet. Judy has extensive experience serving children who are deaf or hard of hearing who present with secondary complicating factors.
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