<< BACK TO AGENDA

ABSTRACT INFORMATION
Presenter Information:
Presenter 1: 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.
Author Information:
Author 1: Name: Betsy Moog Brooks
Affiliation: The Moog Center for Deaf Education
Abstract Information:
Title: Coaching Parents: Working with Families to Enhance Communication
Primary Track: 3-Early Intervention
Keyword(s): parents, spoken language development, working with families

Abstract:

Early identification combined with early amplification can have a big impact on a child with a hearing loss learning to talk. But just helping a child hear better may not be enough, especially for children with severe and profound hearing loss. For these children to learn to talk, parents and teacher/therapists need to help the children learn to use the amplification to “hear” as much as possible and to capitalize on what they hear to learn to understand and produce spoken language. Almost all (90%) prelingually deaf children have hearing parents. And, in fact, typically, for parents of deaf children, their own child is their first experience with deafness. Parent involvement in their child’s education contributes greatly to their child’s learning to talk. For young children, parents are their child’s first teacher and play an integral part in providing vocabulary, language and auditory stimulation throughout the child’s day and in a variety of environments. It is important for parents to know how to communicate with their child and how to help their child learn to talk. This presentation will provide innovative techniques for coaching parents during parent education sessions. Video segments will be used to demonstrate effective coaching. A specific protocol for engaging parents in effective teaching activities with their child will be described. Also included in this presentation will be specific ideas for creating an effective learning environment for parents and specific techniques for the delivery of information related to hearing and hearing loss. Data regarding the progress of the children, whose parents have engaged in parent education sessions using the described coaching techniques, will be presented as evidence of the effectiveness of the coaching program.
Presentation(s): Not Available
Handouts: Not Available