2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 1:15 PM - 1:40 PM | Examining the "I" in EHDI: Exploring Diverse Language Pedagogies in Early Intervention | Room 6
Examining the "I" in EHDI: Exploring Diverse Language Pedagogies in Early Intervention
As soon as the deaf child is born, language choices for early intervention immediately become critical yet complex. This presentation outlines different language intervention choices and reveal the different ways that schools and early intervention specialists play influential and exacting roles in the creation and maintenance of language for deaf children. Some of the data will be drawn from the presenter's research on various schools; both aural/oral-based and sign-based schools. Schools provide deaf children with a unique opportunity to obtain a valuable education; however, the challenges in defining appropriate academic, linguistic, and cultural pedagogy for deaf children in deaf schools are contested by divergent ideologies of spoken English and sign language – something that has continued for more than 250 years. For effective intervention and placement of language for the deaf child, there is a need for parents and stakeholders to be educated on larger issues of deafness within different types of deaf education to uncover emergent ideologies, identity formations, language, culture, and everyday social constructions. Identifying positive choices for the deaf child involve larger critical justice issues related to deafness through critical, yet collaborative inquiry that have important implications influencing the types of knowledge and identities produced for the deaf child.
- Participants will explore, examine, and understand critical language choices for early intervention
- Participants will learn how schools and early intervention programs play important roles in shaping language choices
- Participants will access first-hand data from the presenter on how language pedagogical choices play a role in the infant's language acquisition process
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Presenters/Authors
Thomas Horejes
(Primary Presenter), Gallaudet University, thomas.horejes@gallaudet.edu;
Dr. Thomas Horejes received his PhD in Justice Studies at Arizona State University and is currently Gallaudet University’s Associate Provost of Student Success & Academic Quality. Prior to his position at Gallaudet, he was former Executive Director of DEAF, Inc.— based in St. Louis—that provides advocacy and interpreting services to the deaf/hard of hearing community. During his role, he collaborated with Moog Center for the Deaf on a successful program to empower parents to understand language choices for their child. He has numerous publications, including a book entitled, Social Constructions of Deafness: Examining Deaf Languacultures in Education. He is also former professor of sociology at Gallaudet University.
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