18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
3/04/2019 | 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Ethical and Accurate Psychological Assessments of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children | Narita A/B
Ethical and Accurate Psychological Assessments of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Language deprivation occurs due to a chronic lack of full access to a natural language during the critical period of language acquisition, when there is an elevated neurological sensitivity for language development during the first 5 years of a child’s life. Psychologists must understand that access to language and language development is an important part of the clinical presentation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and adolescents. Ethical and accurate assessment of these children requires expert knowledge on how to differentiate between language deprivation and developmental issues that impact the diagnostic profile. This presentation will explain the impact of language deprivation, the subsequent dysfluency and the negative long term impact while introducing a model of psychological assessment that will enable practitioners to develop a clearer understanding of how evaluate Deaf and Hard of Hearing children for Special Education services. This presentation will further explain how to assess the individual and the educational environment to help determine crucial questions such as FAPE and LRE. Participants will leave with a number of resources to help them develop recommendations for the full range of children with various hearing levels: Deaf, Hard of Hearing, with and without Hearing Aides, Cochlear Implants and even Unilateral Hearing loss.
- Define language deprivation and how it muddies the diagnostic profile of young children needing to be assessed.
- Learn how to use assessment tools to conduct accurate and ethical evaluations so as provide data to the education team to justify development and implementation of an IEP.
- Partner with and educate general education teams who do not understand the needs of students with a hearing loss and provide excellent resources.
Presentation:
18878_10310NatashaKordus.pdf
Handouts:
18878_10310NatashaKordus_1.pdf
18878_10310NatashaKordus_x.pdf
Transcripts:
18878_10310NatashaKordus.docx
Presenters/Authors
Natasha Kordus
(), CDERC / CSDR, nkordus@csdr-cde.ca.gov;
Dr. Kordus graduated with her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Gallaudet University, She's worked in Deaf Education for 25 years and specializes in the assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, ages 0 to 22. She supervises two departments at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside: Assessment Services and the California Deaf Education Resource Center. Dr. Kordus feels fortunate to work with an awesome team that provides services to CSDR as well as districts all of Southern California. Dr. Kordus is also an adjunct professor for the Rochester Institute of Technology and provides training to mainstream programs on how to provide the most accessible environment for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children and adolescents.
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Jennifer Willey
(), California Deaf Education Resource Center, jwilley@csdr-cde.ca.gov;
Jennifer is a Family Education Coordinator at CDERC/CSDR. She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Work from Rochester Institute of Technology and is a graduate student at Gallaudet University, studying for her master's degree in sign language education. Jennifer's primary focus is to ensure that the families are being wholesome with their deaf children with language development and acquisition.
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