2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Positive Touch Access: Invitation to Touch Leads to Self-Actualization | Room 6
Positive Touch Access: Invitation to Touch Leads to Self-Actualization
Over the past decade there has been a major shift in the way touch techniques are labeled and used with DeafBlind adults, particularly through the practice of sign language interpreting. The introduction of haptics, a system established in the Scandinavian countries, and the development of protactile communication, pioneered in the USA, has led to much awakening of the positive means of access through touch for all individuals. With this development has come the exploration of protactile language in infants and toddlers with combined hearing and vision loss. This session will address the need for early identification to enhance meaningful experiences with touch and the critical importance of developing tactile cognition. This session will also explore the different aspects of touch and provide case studies of various learners who are DeafBlind as well as the application across all learners with varying sensory needs.
- Participants will learn the benefits of touch at an early age to encourage the development of trust, social awareness and rapport.
- Participants will learn successful "non-traditional" touch strategies, as modeled by DeafBlind adults.
- Participants will learn Positive Touch Access to encourage self-actualization in DeafBlind children and adults.
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Presenters/Authors
Susanne Morrow
(Primary Presenter), New York DeafBlind Collaborative, susanne.morrow@qc.cuny.edu;
Susanne Morgan Morrow, MA, CI, CT has almost 30 years of experience in the fields of deafness and deafblindness. She earned a masters degree at Gallaudet University in Rehabilitation Counseling for the Deaf and then began her career at Helen Keller National Center and then with the National Technical Assistance Consortium on Deaf-Blindness. In her early career, she obtained national certification as a sign language interpreter and provided extensive training on DeafBlind interpreting strategies. Today, Susanne is the Project Director of the New York DeafBlind Collaborative, a federally funded grant for NYS, and is the owner of DeafBlind Training, Interpreting & Professional Development (DB-TIP, Inc.). Susanne’s work aims to bring the lessons learned from adults who are DeafBlind with lived-experiences to young learners who are DeafBlind to enhance communication access and rapport with the world.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Personal,Professional (Since this work is directly with people, there are many overlapping interests in the Deaf and DeafBlind fields and communities.) (Since this work is directly with people, there are many overlapping interests in the Deaf and DeafBlind fields and communities.)
relationship for Volunteer membership on advisory committee or review panels,Other volunteer activities.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with New York DeafBlind Collaborative, DeafBlind Training, Interpreting & Professional Development (DB-TIP).
Nature: Director of federally funded grant and owner of small side business.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.