15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/15/2016 | 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Topical Session 8 | Pacific Salon 3 | 3 - Language Acquisition and Development
Using Language Samples to Effectively Plan and Evaluate Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss
Children with hearing loss require careful clinical management to ensure optimal progress in expressive language acquisition. Clinicians analyze a child’s language samples to determine expressive language targets have been acquired, are emerging, or are not yet seen. The clinician then prescribes increasingly challenging language targets. Children with hearing loss often require direct instruction of language targets that their typical hearing peers acquire via incidental learning. Diagnostic teaching strategies identify the direct instruction and scaffolding needed to support continued growth. Further language samples document generalization of past targets and emerging success with new targets.
A clinician collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to facilitate a child's success in demonstrating language targets across settings and conversational partners. Various professionals determine when a lack of progress indicates a needed referral for audiological services.
Clinicians use language samples to continually inform parents of ongoing progress. A clinician communicates specific targets for a parent to hold their child accountable for at home or other social settings. A clinician coaches parents in how to use language samples to advocate for appropriate services for their child's mainstream educational settings.
Language samples become an invaluable tool in training graduate students and new professionals in clinical settings. Experienced clinicians mentor the process of using language samples to drive effective instruction for a child’s acquisition of targets. Newer professionals and graduate students learn professional writing skills needed to collaborate with the multidisciplinary team and parents.
Language samples truly become an indispensible tool for ensuring that a child with hearing loss receives instruction and support needed to acquire spoken language. Clinicians use language samples to identify appropriate language targets, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, educate and empower parents, and refine clinical skills of graduate students and new professionals.
- Analyze language samples to determine appropriate expressive language targets and evaluate effectiveness of intervention for a child with hearing loss.
- Utilize language samples to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, to educate and empower parents, and to compare a child's success in generalizing expressive language targets across settings.
- Design a language sample template that tracks a child's progress in achieving his/her individualized goals and objectives in expressive language.
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Nicole Martin
(Primary Presenter), Sound Beginnings at Utah State University, Nicole.Martin@usu.edu;
Nicole Martin is the Director of Sound Beginnings at Utah State University. She is also a clinical supervisor for students enrolled in the Listening and Spoken Language Graduate Studies program at Utah State University. She is certified in both speech-language pathology and special education with listening and spoken language emphasis.
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Lauri Nelson
(Co-Presenter), Utah State University, lauri.nelson@usu.edu;
Lauri Nelson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education in the Listening and Spoken Language Deaf Education program at Utah State University. She has a dual background in both clinical audiology and LSL deaf education and currently directs the LSL deaf education graduate training program at Utah State University.
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