18th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 3-5, 2019 • Chicago, IL
4/15/2014 | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | For Better or Worse: Could Having a Deaf/Hard of Hearing Child Enhance the Parental Relationship? | City Terrace 7 | 7
For Better or Worse: Could Having a Deaf/Hard of Hearing Child Enhance the Parental Relationship?
Ninety-five percent of all DHH babies are born into hearing families. While early identification is ideal, it also occurs at a time when parents are at the height of all that comes with a newborn. Families with no prior experience or perspective with hearing loss or deafness are challenged with stresses and issues unimagined prior to their child's identification. Parents come to grips with the news from different perspectives and expectations. As the family moves ahead, they will need new tools, information and perspectives as they navigate a world of diagnosis, prognosis, communication, specialists, and technologies and for some families, financial difficulties. The stresses of these factors can become stresses in the family and between the parents.
The session will ask if and how it would be possible for early intervention to positively or negatively impact the parent’s relationship? Participants in this session will take time to share strategies and ways that they have gently asked questions and provided support to families when the relationship between parents may be perceived as strained.
This presentation aims to support families and parents as they dive into their new and unexpected normal. Through personal and anecdotal evidence the presenters aim to bring the parents and providers new tools and perspectives to better equip them in their lives together.
- have more understanding of the stress having a deaf/hh child can have on the parental relationship.
- identify some tools parents and EI providers can use to alleviate stress in a relationship.
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Presenters/Authors
Helen Cotton Leiser
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), Hands & Voices, helen@handsandvoicesor.org;
Helen is the parent of two deaf children. Through her years advocating for her girls and using technology, she has become quite versed on the realities of being a hearing parent raising two deaf children. In her role with Hands & Voices in Oregon and with HQ, she has had the privilege of speaking with, and learning from hundreds of families and professionals across the country. Providing the resources for our deaf and hard of children to achieve their personal successes is paramount to Helen.
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Stephanie Olson
(Co-Presenter), Children's Hospital Colorado, stephanie.olson@childrenscolorado.org;
Stephanie Olson, B.A., is the Family Consultant for the Bill Daniels Center for Children’s Hearing at Children’s Hospital, Colorado. Stephanie has been in this position for 18 years and serves as a liaison between families and the audiology health care system. Previously she worked with families and children from birth to three through the Colorado Home Intervention Program and for Hands and Voices Headquarters.
Stephanie has traveled to Northern China, London, South Africa, Brazil and New Zealand and St. Petersburg, Russia, and FCEI Austria- Family Centered Early Intervention in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022. Stephanie’s passion is to increase the understanding and impact of deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the parenting journey and with the professionals who work with those families. Stephanie was identified deaf/hard of hearing at the age of three and brings a variety of perspectives into her work and presentations.
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