2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER
3/06/2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Striving for Consistency in Early Intervention Programming: Colorado's Scope and Sequence for Early Intervention Providers | DECC 201/202
Striving for Consistency in Early Intervention Programming: Colorado's Scope and Sequence for Early Intervention Providers
The Joint Commission on Infant Hearing (2013) states “Informed decision-making is a fluid and ongoing process that requires a family to consider new knowledge, information, experiences, language assessment results, and their personal family goals and values as they make decisions.” This highlights that families need to be fully informed about approaches to language and communication in order to make the best decision for their child and family.
Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) Facilitators are the early intervention providers in the Colorado system, and work with families to meet IFSP goals, developmental milestones and language outcomes. These professionals collaborate with families, in order to provide essential information, assessments and experiences that support families’ informed decisions. Inherently, early intervention services are to be family-centered, respecting the unique priorities and goals of the family. Additionally, each CHIP Facilitator has a different background, different experiences, and different areas of expertise which they bring to their role.
So how do we find consistency in a statewide program that depends on the individual professional and their own expertise, while holding to the standards of families being fully informed? How do we set aside biases to provide critical information to each family, but still remain family-centered and support specific preferences and decisions? This breakout will highlight an online tool used in Colorado to attempt to provide consistency in the materials and information shared with parents, while still allowing individualized intervention.
- Participants will learn about and see the revised Scope and Sequence and padlet for Early Intervention providers working in the Colorado EHDI system
- Participants will identify potential roadblocks within state systems that impact consistent information being shared with families
- Participants will be able to consider and create a similar process for interventionists in their own state using the resources from Colorado, as needed
Presentation:
3420032_15518AshleyRenslow.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
3420032_15518AshleyRenslow.docx
Presenters/Authors
Ashley Renslow
(), Colorado EHDI, Arenslow@csdb.org;
Ashley Renslow is the Early Education Coordinator with Outreach Programs at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. In her role, she coordinates the Colorado Hearing Resource Coordinator (CO-Hear) and Colorado Home Intervention Programs (CHIP),the Colorado Shared Reading Project (CSRP) and the Little Language Learners Toddler Program. She also programmatically oversees the Early Literacy Events. A speech language pathologist by background, she has worked in Deaf residential Schools for 10+ years in varying roles, and has served local families as a CHIP facilitator (0-3 early interventionist). Outside of work, when she's not chasing her kindergartner and toddler, Ashley enjoys being outside, traveling, and lounging with a good book.
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Robin Getz
(), CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program), rlgetz@csdb.org;
Robin Getz, MA, is a Colorado Hearing Resource Coordinator (CO-Hear) with the CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program) program through the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. She supports urban families with newly identified children, birth to three years of age. Profoundly deaf from birth, Robin began her formal education in Puerto Rico at a bilingual Spanish/English school for Kindergarten and 1st grade before moving back to NYC where she was born. She has lived in many places nationally, and internationally as a child. She earned a double major in Psychology; and Communication Disorders and Speech Sciences for her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds two Master's Degrees: Mental Health Counseling from Gallaudet University, and Deaf Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Robin began her professional career as a licensed Mental Health Therapist (LPC), which she practiced for about 8 years until she realized her heart was in the early intervention field. She has worked as an early interventionist with the CHIP program for 23 years with families from diverse cultures. She enjoys reading, traveling, and trying new ethnic foods
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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