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| Presenter 1: |
Name: Jean Moog
Affiliation:
Jean Sachar Moog is internationally renowned for her work in oral deaf education as a teacher, researcher, consultant and administrator and has been an invited speaker and consultant to programs throughout North America, as well as in South America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific. She has developed assessment and rehabilitation procedures for children with hearing loss, many of which have been have been translated into other languages and used worldwide by educators, audiologists, and speech-language pathologists. Also, her research in childhood deafness has been widely published. Jean is currently the Executive Director of the Moog Center for Deaf Education in St. Louis and there are currently eight Moog Curriculum Schools throughout the United States and one in Argentina, which she and the Moog Center staff helped to establish.
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Name: Betsy Brooks
Affiliation:
Betsy Moog Brooks is the Director of the Moog School and Family School at the Moog Center for Deaf Education. She received her Masters degree in Speech and Hearing from Washington University and is certified in Deaf Education, Behavior Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Early Childhood Education and is a LSL Cert AVEd. She has been in the field of deaf education for over twenty-five years and has been working in the field of early intervention for more than twenty years. She created a Toddler Curriculum and a language curriculum, which are used in all Moog Schools. Betsy is the author of the book, My Baby and Me: A Book About Teaching Your Child to Talk. She works as a consultant to other Moog Schools in the United States and South America and she has lectured extensively throughout the US, in South America, Europe and at International Conferences.
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| Abstract Information: |
| Title: |
Deaf Children Can Talk: The Impact of a Focused Program |
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3-Early Intervention
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| Keyword(s): |
spoken language, high achievement, model program, focused instruction |
Abstract: |
Changes in the treatment of early childhood hearing loss have had a significant impact on the practice of deaf education. The combination of earlier diagnosis and intervention and improved access to sound have made it possible for deaf children to develop spoken language skills that approach those of their hearing age-mates. This session will describe a model intervention program at the Moog Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The tests used to evaluate spoken language skills and the results will also be discussed.
A recent study at the Moog Center evaluated the effectiveness of the birth-to-three program and the preschool program in terms of children with hearing loss learning to talk. Vocabulary skills were evaluated when the children were three years of age and both vocabulary and language skills were measured when they were five. An overwhelming majority of the children achieved age-appropriate vocabulary skills by age three when compared to children who had no hearing loss. At age five, these children maintained age appropriate skills in both vocabulary and language skills.
Critical elements of the Moog Curriculum that will be discussed are 1) getting started early, 2) capitalizing on hearing through effective audiologic management, 3) developing listening and spoken language skills through techniques that capitalize on the first two. Video segments will illustrate children at various levels of development in spoken language. Test results will be discussed with a focus on factors which may account for these children reaching these excellent levels of achievement, including the impact of early intervention, highly supportive parents, average or better cognitive abilities, and early intervention and preschool programs that were very focused on the development of all aspects of spoken language skills. |
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