18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
4/14/2014 | 11:05 AM - 11:35 AM | Language Outcomes of Young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Across 11 States: Strengths, Limitations, and Predictors of Success | City Terrace 7 | 3
Language Outcomes of Young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Across 11 States: Strengths, Limitations, and Predictors of Success
In response to guidelines established by both the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing and the Centers for Disease Control, the National Early Childhood Assessment Project (NECAP) is supporting states in establishing statewide accountability systems to examine the effectiveness of early intervention programming for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Current project goals include incorporating these outcome data within each state’s EHDI database. This would allow states to track children from screening through completion of an early intervention program. As part of this presentation, we will describe the NECAP project and provide information on how to join this national effort.
To date, 11 states have contributed over 1,200 assessments to the NECAP project creating a large national database of language outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing from birth to 3 years of age. In this presentation, we will describe the language strengths and limitations of children assessed through this large, multi-state project. Commonalities and differences in outcomes across states will be highlighted along with a discussion of child, family, and state characteristics that are predictive of more successful language outcomes.
- Describe the National Early Childhood Assessment Project (NECAP)
- Characterize the language strengths and limitations of children with hearing loss across 11 states
- Discuss the commonalities and differences in young children's language skills across states and identify characteristics that may contribute to more successful language outcomes.
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Presenters/Authors
Allison Sedey
(Primary Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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• Receives Salary for Employment,Management position from Centers for Disease Control.
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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(Co-Presenter), 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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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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Mallene Wiggin
(Co-Presenter), 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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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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