18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
4/16/2013 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Intervention Efficacy: What does intervention really look like? | Cascade F | 9
Intervention Efficacy: What does intervention really look like?
With the advent of universal newborn infant screening, many children with hearing loss are able to attain speech and language skills commensurate to age-matched hearing peers. Therapy targeting speech, language, and/or auditory skills is typically a component of treatment program during the birth to 3 years. This study is an initial investigation into quantitatively describing the characteristics of this intervention using LENA (Language Environment Analysis). The preschool setting and therapy setting will be discussed.
The first study demonstrates benefit of access to summer preschool services for children with hearing loss. In general, it is difficult to demonstrate language change over a short period of time on standardized tests that are designed to be administered annually. However, use of LENA proved to be a powerful tool in documenting the language environment of the preschool and home. Within a single day, the language stimulation that occurred during the preschool experience was equivalent to the average language stimulation that a hearing child is exposed to in a 10-16 hour day. For the children in the most enriched home language environments, preschool allowed them to double their amount of access to spoken language and that in turn, doubled their conversational turns and their child vocalizations. Results indicate that summer educational programs can significantly increase amount of language exposure.
The second study uses LENA and demonstrates that it is a promising tool to characterize therapy sessions by number of adult word count, child word count, and conversational turns of a therapy session. Two specific models with preliminary data will be presented. First, we will consider the characteristics of a master clinician as compared to a novice clinician. Second, we will consider whether LENA can quantify the impact of continuing education.
- Participants will be able to describe how LENA (Language Environment Analysis) can be used to quantify intervention.
- Participants will be able to consider whether LENA (Language Environment Analysis) may be a useful tool for evaluating or measuring program improvement within their own state.
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Presenters/Authors
Mallene Wiggin
(POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author), University of Colorado-Boulder, Mallene.Wiggin@colorado.edu;
Mallene Wiggin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University of the Pacific. She continued her studies at University of Kansas and earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology. Mallene specialized in children with hearing impairment and worked in cochlear implant centers, early intervention, and educational settings prior to completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include speech, language and auditory development in young children with cochlear implants.
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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Colorado-Boulder, Christie.Yoshi@colorado.edu;
Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is a Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, Professor Emerita, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Visiting Professor, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Centre for Deaf. She has over 125 published articles and chapters with a focus on universal newborn hearing screening and predictors of developmental outcomes of children with hearing loss with an emphasis on children and families from multicultural/linguistic backgrounds, and those with socio-economic and linguistic challenges. She presented on this topic throughout the United States and globally. She received Honors from the American Speech/Language & Hearing Association and was a Jerger Career Research Awardee from the American Academy of Audiology. She serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Audiology and is a member of the Audiology committee for the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP).
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