2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Expanding Visual Language Opportunities in the Classroom and at Home | Room 11
Expanding Visual Language Opportunities in the Classroom and at Home
Visual access to language is critical for deaf or hard of hearing people, regardless of age, residual hearing, or amplification. In order to support success in school and the wider world, it is important that deaf or hard of hearing students have as much access to both signed and spoken and/or printed languages as possible. For decades now, many pre-K-12 programs for deaf or hard of hearing children have championed a bilingual-bicultural approach. But what does that mean, and what does it look like--what are the challenges and where are the opportunities for improvement? The presenters believe that we should look to the lived experiences of deaf people to inform our answers to these questions. During this session, the Amys will share the personal reflections of several deaf adults' experiences with access to--or lack of access to--visual languages. The facilitators will ask participants to draw on those deaf adult models' experiences to shape discussion about best practices in early intervention and language development support of deaf or hard of hearing students. Participants should walk away either having gained some new insights, or having current beliefs confirmed regarding best practices in providing visual access to signed and spoken and/or printed languages. Participants will also leave with at least one SMART goal aimed at improving the program or system within which they work.
- Participants will identify at least two key assertions/areas of needs expressed by adult Deaf models.
- Participants will discuss and/or synthesize at least one belief about what constitutes best practice in providing visual access to language for deaf or hard of hearing children.
- Participants will compare their current practices and potential best practices to create at least one SMART goal for system improvement related to visual language access.
Presentation:
3353554_15059AmyHund.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Amy Crumrine
(Primary Presenter), CueSign, Inc , AmyCrumrine72@gmail.com;
Amy Crumrine owns Crumrine Communications. Consulting with school districts across the country, she provides support, resources, and mentorship to deaf children and their families. Amy is a Cued Speech instructor online at Gallaudet University, a high school American Sign Language teacher, and has given multiple workshops and presentations about how CS and ASL work together.
Amy is also founder and President of CueSign, Inc. A native cuer, Amy was told that CS and ASL did not go hand in hand. After immersing herself in the deaf community as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology and earning a Master's in Deaf Education, she realized it was critical for deaf children to have both CS and ASL for access to literacy and healthy social/emotional development. She is passionate giving families and children opportunities to gain access to literacy and deaf culture. Find more about CueSign, Inc. at cuesign.org.
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Amy Hund
(Co-Presenter), CueSign, Inc., Handjive76@gmail.com;
Amy Hund is in her twenty-fifth year of practice as an American Sign Language-English interpreter, and is in her first year as an ASL instructor at Topeka High School in Topeka, KS. Additionally, she was previously an NCSA certified Cued Speech instructor, and has been a working Cued Language Transliterator for five years. Amy graduated with a BGS from Wichita State University (Kansas) with a concentration in Sociology and minors in Psychology and Communication.
Amy has designed and delivered over one hundred hours of training for ASL interpreters, and for those learning CAE at beginning, intermediate, or advanced levels. Her passion for helping families communicate leads Amy to volunteer or work at several camps that support family communication development every year.
She is a board member of CueSign, Inc., an organization which promotes multilingualism through ASL and CS. When not doing any of the above, Amy is a published writer and blogger. You will find her work at www.alhund.com.
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