2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
| Evidence-based parenting intervention for families with deaf or hard of hearing children
Evidence-based parenting intervention for families with deaf or hard of hearing children
A randomized-controlled trial has been underway for the past 3.5 years, evaluating an evidence-based parenting intervention, The Family Check-Up (FCU), that was adapted for use with families with deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children. With data collection ending in May 2025, the study will assess whether this adapted intervention (the “FCU-DHH”) improves parent and child outcomes, and it will investigate whether the program is desirable and feasible for the families and the parent coaches who deliver the intervention.
The study enrolled 125 families with 3- to 6-year-old DHH children who wear hearing aids or cochlear implants. Enrolled families complete research measures every 6 months for up to 3 years, including standardized measures of parenting and child behaviors, parent depression, parent-child interactions, and child receptive and expressive language skills. After baseline data collection, families were randomized to either the control or intervention (FCU-DHH) arm.
Up to 6 FCU-DHH sessions are offered per year to families in the intervention arm. FCU-DHH sessions focus on reinforcing parenting strengths and learning/practicing effective positive parenting strategies. Formative research indicated that parents wanted to learn these skills from other parents of DHH children. The interventionists for this study were identified from the Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side program. They received specialized training and ongoing supervision in the FCU-DHH program.
This poster will present preliminary quantitative results of parent and child outcomes for families who received the FCU-DHH intervention compared to families in the control arm.
- Describe the research study design
- Describe one adaptation made to the evidence-based intervention
- Describe differences in parent and child outcomes between the intervention and control arms of the study
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Julie Jacobs
(Primary Presenter,Co-Author), University of Kentucky , julie.jacobs@uky.edu;
Julie Jacobs, MPH, is a research director at the University of Kentucky, where she has worked for the past 10 years with Dr. Christina Studts on grant-funded projects that focus on increasing access to evidence-based interventions to address the needs of underserved populations, particularly for children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Ms. Jacobs earned her Master of Public Health degree at Saint Louis University in 2010, and she started her public health research career 15 years ago at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Laura Bellnier
(Co-Author), University of Kentucky, laura.bellnier@uky.edu;
Laura Bellnier, MPH, is a research associate at the University of Kentucky. Her work in hearing healthcare research began as a graduate assistant while pursuing her Master of Public Health at the University of Kentucky. Ms. Bellnier assists with several grant-funded projects that focus on increasing access to hearing health care and evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes for children and adults who are deaf or hard of hearing. Prior to joining the University of Kentucky, Ms. Bellnier spent seven years providing educational access and affordable housing services to underserved families in Appalachia and Central Kentucky.
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Kelsey Karnik
(Co-Author), University of Kentucky , kelsey.karnik@uky.edu;
Kelsey Karnik is a Biomedical Data Scientist in the Biostatistics Consulting and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Lab (Biostat CIRCL) in the Department of Biostatistics. Before working at the University of Kentucky, she received her Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She enjoys working with researchers and scientists outside the field of biostatistics through statistical collaboration and consulting.
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Philip Westgate
(Co-Author), University of Kentucky, philip.westgate@uky.edu;
Dr. Philip Westgate is the Interim Chair and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Kentucky. His methodological areas of interest include cluster, group, or community randomized trials, longitudinal studies, and clustered data in general. Furthermore, he has applied interests in a variety of areas, including pediatrics and the substance use area.
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Christina Studts
(Co-Author), University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus , CHRISTINA.STUDTS@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU;
Dr. Studts is an associate professor of pediatrics and implementation scientist in the Adult & Child Consortium for Health Outcomes Research & Delivery Science (ACCORDS) at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Her research focuses on increasing access to evidence-based parenting interventions among understudied and underserved populations, including parents of young children who are deaf or hard of hearing and who use hearing aids or cochlear implants. In addition to leading her own program of community-engaged research, Dr. Studts serves as an implementation scientist on teams studying the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based practices in a variety of topical areas, and she directs and teaches in the Dissemination and Implementation Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Colorado.
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