EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/03/2021 | 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM | Intervention services across the nation -- are they enough? | Topical Breakout
Intervention services across the nation -- are they enough?
This presentation will describe the impact of intervention on children who receive different amounts of intervention in a national sample of children with hearing loss enrolled in early intervention. Children with hearing loss may receive a variety of types of services such as toddler groups, OT/PT, in home intervention, or group intervention. Demographic factors will be considered such as degree of hearing loss, type of amplification, mothers level of education, language in the home, race/ethnicity, presence of additional disability and severity of additional disability, and age of identification.
- The learner will be able to describe the variation in intervention services across the country.
- The learner will be able to describe the impact of amount of intervention on outcomes.
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Presenters/Authors
Mallene Wiggin
(), 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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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Allison Sedey
(), 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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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(), 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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• Receives Salary for Employment from University of Colorado, Boulder Disability Research Dissemination Center.
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• Has a Professional (Scientific Advisory Board)
relationship for Board membership.
Craig Mason
(), University of Maine, Craig_Mason@umit.maine.edu;
Craig Mason is the associate professor at university of Maine, and he is a consultant of the EHDI team, Centers for Disease control and Prevention
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