EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/02/2021 | 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM | Empowering Caregivers through Language Sampling Practices | Topical Breakout
Empowering Caregivers through Language Sampling Practices
Parents and caregivers are the primary facilitators of language development in the early years. The shift to receiving services through tele-intervention has created a need for more tools and strategies to further empower parents and caregivers to become even more engaged in the language development and progress monitoring activities. In our tele-intervention practice with families around the world we see that language samples of spontaneous utterances and parent-child interactions are a powerful tool to coach and empower the families to monitor and facilitate their child’s language development across ages, stages, and also languages.
In this presentation we will share how we have empowered families to document and evaluate their child’s language development through systematic language sampling. First, we will identify how families can be coached to take language samples of their child at various ages and stages (even before first words). Second, we will discuss how our modified language sampling approach can be used as a tool to help families reflect on the quality and quantity of language input in one or more languages. This approach allows parents to analyze and evaluate their child’s stage of language development as well as the listening and spoken language strategies the parents are using. By using specific prompts for analyzing the language sample that take into account sentence structure, word choice, complexity of ideas, and pragmatics, parents can obtain a comprehensive picture of the child’s language use. Finally, we will share our TEAM TALK strategy parent-professional collaboration. Example videos and resources will be shared.
- Describe how language sampling can be used to empower caregivers to support the language of the home and heart
- Explain how language sampling can be used as tool to monitor progress across ages, stages, and languages
- Identify components of the TEAM TALK strategy to promote collaboration between families and professionals
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Presenters/Authors
Uma Soman
(), Listening Together, uma.soman@listeningtogether.com;
Dr. Uma Soman is an educator of deaf or hard of hearing students and a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Auditory-Verbal Educator (LSLS Cert. AVEd). Over the last twenty years, Dr. Soman has worked directly with children and families in a variety of settings. She has also worked with graduate students and mentored professionals pursuing Listening and Spoken Language Specialist certification.
Currently, Dr. Soman serves in two roles. She is the co-founder and the Director of Listening Together, a nonprofit organization that advances the education and rehabilitation of children who are deaf and hard of hearing around the world through parent empowerment, professional development, and public awareness. She is also an assistant professor in the Communication Disorders and Deaf Education Department at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, MO, USA. In both of these roles Dr. Soman works to prepare teachers, speech-language pathologists, and audiologists to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families in a variety of settings. Dr. Soman has served on the boards of OPTION Schools and AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language.
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Ahladhini Rao
(), Listening Together, ahladhini.dugar@listeningtogether.com;
Ahladhini Rao Dugar, M.E.D. is an early interventionist and educator of the students who are deaf or hard of hearing, with more than 15 years of experience working in the United States and India. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Parent Empowerment at Listening Together, a nonprofit organization that advances the education and rehabilitation of children who are deaf and hard of hearing through parent empowerment, professional development, and public awareness around the world. Ahladhini provides family-centered tele-intervention to children and families from varied socio-economic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
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