2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 12:00 PM - 12:25 PM | Empowering Latino Families Through Collaboration | Room 12
Empowering Latino Families Through Collaboration
It is known that family plays an essential role in the success of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This holds true for Latino families, but they often encounter increased challenges due to the language barrier, lack of culturally relevant educational resources and support programs. These factors negatively impact the families’ involvement with their child’s education and hearing health care needs.
American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC) is committed to empowering diverse families of deaf* children. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, Latino family support with resources in Spanish. ASDC takes pride in providing support worldwide for Spanish speaking families. It is essential to support these families to ensure all Deaf Latino children and youth have the opportunity to reach their full potential. A key component to helping Deaf Latino children succeed is to encourage family involvement and provide parents with useful information and tools to support their children at home.
MED-EL developed a bilingual program, UnidosOimos (“Together, We Hear”) to provide critical information on understanding the basic function of hearing, types of hearing loss, hearing tests, hearing technology, and beyond in their native language.
Sharing a mutual goal to support deaf children, regardless of their preferred communication choice, MED-EL is the first hearing implant company to partner with ASDC.This collaboration between ASDC and MED-EL includes providing virtual support that enables Spanish speaking families to become better equipped for decision making regarding their child’s hearing health and communication options. ASDC and MED-EL’s collaboration is impactful to Spanish speaking families because of a shared vision working together to address their needs as a priority through resources, encouragement, and support.
*ASDC uses the term “Deaf” to be inclusive of various hearing levels, including those who are seen as, or identify as Deaf, deaf, or hard of hearing.
- Understand the importance of collaboration while supporting families of deaf children.
- Identify the needs for support and resources of Spanish speaking families.
- Learn how to directly connect Spanish speaking families to the support services and resources needed to support raising a deaf child.
Presentation:
3353554_14894YiesellRayon.pdf
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Yiesell Rayon
(Primary Presenter), American Society for Deaf Children , yiesell@deafchildren.org;
Yiesell Rayon is a mother of three young boys. Her middle son, Marcus was identified at birth with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. Marcus attends the California School for the Deaf, Riverside and communicates using both ASL and spoken language.
After acquiring her B.A., Yiesell decided to focus on raising her Deaf son. She quickly discovered her passion for offering support and resources to other parents. Yiesell has worked with families of Deaf children for over 10 years. She applies both her professional and personal experience as an advocate to empower parents to advocate for their own children.
Yiesell is the Latino Outreach Coordinator at American Society for Deaf Children (ASDC). She is passionate about supporting parents, but also the professionals who serve them. Yiesell has presented at various conferences regarding family support and involvement. To better serve and improve Latino family involvement, Yiesell believes there is a demand for heightening awareness of the Latino culture and family dynamics.
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Myriam De La Asuncion
(Co-Presenter), MED-EL Corporation, Myriam.DeLaAsuncion@medel.com;
Dr. De La Asuncion is an audiologist and received her doctorate degree from the University of Florida in 2005. Since then, she has focused her career in working with children with cochlear implants and their families in conjunction with multidisciplinary teams in various clinical settings such as Beth Israel Medical Center/NYEE CI Program, Cochlear Americas, and the Barton G. Kids Hear Now CI Program at the University of Miami. Prior to joining MED-EL she worked over 15 years as a cochlear implant audiologist. She has a passion for the field and in her current role at MED-EL, as the Program Manager for the Bilingual Programs since 2016. She continues to utilize her clinical expertise, counseling, and education to assist Spanish speaking populations in providing appropriate support to candidates, recipients, and professionals that serve them.
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