2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/05/2019 | 3:45 PM - 4:10 PM | STARR: Strategies to Enhance Language Development | DaVinci A/B
STARR: Strategies to Enhance Language Development
The real work for families happens outside of the therapy hour. The times parent and child spend with the professional are only sufficient to guide and direct skills, not to establish and stabilize them. Therapists and professionals can only introduce ideas and coaching strategies with the hope that skills will be integrated into the child’s daily living experience. Early listening and language takes place in the home through daily routines and it is the common, repetitive phrases of those routines that are first understood and spoken. Parents must build a healthy parent-child attachment that will have a profound effect on how their child will function in the world. Research into infant attachment consistently shows that babies thrive mentally, socially, and emotionally in direct relation to a parent’s responsiveness and sensitivity. Parents and caregivers are those most appropriate and responsible for inputting the abundant auditory information needed for developing the brain. We are therefore seeking new ways to enhance parental sensitivity using the STARR strategies, a practical and developmentally appropriate method for parents to enhance their child’s listening and spoken language development.
• S – stay close
• T – talk, talk, talk
• A – auditory environment
• R – reciprocity
• R – repeat routines
These strategies transcend parent education, finances, training, environment, and home language, including visual languages. We have adapted STARR to meet the needs of Spanish speaking families through la estrategia CHILE.
• C – cercanía
• H – hábitos rutinarios
• I – interactuar
• L - lenguaje descriptivo
• E - eliminar ruido
By incorporating the STARR/CHILE strategies, parents and caregivers will be bathing their child with spoken language in a meaningful auditory environment. This presentation will expose parents and therapists working with families of young children to these 5 key points as a way to naturally implement listening and spoken language strategies into their daily routines.
- identify five key strategies to facilitate language development
- implement these five strategies in daily living
- modify these strategies to meet individual needs
Presentation:
18878_10150AnnabelNoyola.pdf
18878_10150JuliannaWanek.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
18878_10150JuliannaWanek.docx
Presenters/Authors
Julianna Wanek
(), Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children, jwanek@sunshinecottage.org;
Julianna Wanek graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders, specializing in Deaf Education. She went on to receive her Masters in Deaf Education and Hearing Science from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA). While working on her graduate degree, Julianna volunteered in classrooms and worked as a graduate assistant at Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children. During her coursework, she realized her love for working with children in early intervention and became a parent infant advisor at Sunshine in January of 2015. Julianna is a Certified Educator of the Deaf by the state of Texas and is currently seeking certification as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist. She is also co-teaching Best Practices in Listening and Spoken Language Family Centered Intervention for UTHSCSA.
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Annabel Noyola
(), Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children, anoyola@sunshinecottage.org;
Annabel Noyola graduated from University of Texas San Antonio with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in early childhood. She then received her Master’s Degree in Deaf Education and Hearing Science from the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. Annabel taught Preschool for four years before becoming a Parent Infant Advisor. She recently became certified in auditory verbal therapy as a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist.
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Ana Sei
(), Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children, asei@sunshinecottage.org;
Ana Laura Sei graduated from The University of Texas at San Antonio with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies; specializing in Bilingual Education. Growing up bilingual in a border town, she felt the necessity to maintain children’s native language and use it as an educational tool to foster second language acquisition. Shortly after earning her Bachelor’s degree, she pursued her Master’s Degree in Deaf Education and Hearing Sciences from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, graduating in May 2012. She has been a part of Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children since August 2010, where she has worked as a graduate assistant, teacher assistant, and now serves families as a Parent Infant Advisor.
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