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'Anatomy of a First Home Visit' |
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8-Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance
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Scaffolding parent support |
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Participants will identify strategies for establishing productive relationships with newly referred families in early intervention. The session will focus on the following strategies: knowing one's bias or personal belief system and buttressing weaknesses, anticipating questions, making a quick analysis of the parent(s)’s learning style, using knowledge to diffuse fear of the unknown, and outlining the process ahead versus the event at hand.
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This presentation will focus on the dynamics of the first home visit and give strategies for establishing productive relationships with parents of newly referred families. The questions, emotions and barriers that parents face when discovering that their baby has a hearing loss are diverse and sometimes consuming. Professionals and Parent Guides need to have a plethora of strategies available 'in the moment' to be able to champion these parents to move forward in assisting their baby to develop to his or her highest potential. This presentation will set the stage for understanding best practices for visits with Parent Guides, professionals and joint visits from the first visit through transition to school services and beyond.
Participants will have the opportunity to brainstorm special situations including late identification as well as 'the hand on the doorknob” questions as visits are concluding. |
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Handout is not Available
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Sara Kennedy - Colorado Hands & Voices
Credentials: Director
Other Affiliations: OT
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Sara is a mom of four children, including a daughter who was born at home and later identified with a profound hearing loss. An occupational therapist by training, Sara has worked for Hands & Voices since 2000, currently serving as the Colorado chapter director and the editor for the quarterly newspaper, the Communicator, at the Headquarters level. Sara has a special interest in advocating for hearing screening in the homebirth community. She was a coauthor for the handbook Bridge to Preschool: Navigating a Successful Transition as well as articles and presentations on teaching our deaf/hh children about sex, promoting self advocacy, progressive hearing loss, and the decision process regarding cochlear implants. She finds parenting teenagers to be an even bigger challenge. |
Denise Davis-Pedrie - Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
Credentials: M.A. CCC-Sp. Speech/Language/Hearing Pathologist
Other Affiliations: Colorado EDHI Regional Team member
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Denise Davis-Pedrie is a speech-language pathologist and teacher of the deaf with a specialist certification in Infant/Toddler Special Education. She is a Colorado Hearing Resource Coordinator with the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, supporting families with newly identified children, birth to three years of age. Additionally, Denise has more than 20 years of experience as a preschool teacher for children with hearing loss in an inclusive classroom. Denise is a member of the Board of Directors for Colorado Families for Hands and Voices. |
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