2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
| The Working-Together Continuum: Enhancing Collaboration Across EHDI Systems
The Working-Together Continuum: Enhancing Collaboration Across EHDI Systems
What does effective collaboration look like to you within your scope of practice? When you utilize collaborative practices, how do you strive towards a common goal? Collaboration could easily be described as professionals allocating time to share their ideas with one another to work towards a common goal. Mitchell et al.(2020) research highlights the importance of specifically defining collaboration practices, analyzing the type of collaboration occurring and determining where it may fall on the “working-together continuum”. Effective collaboration is essential for the enhancement of early hearing detection programs. As professionals working in collaborative spaces, it is critical to evaluate the systems in which intervention is provided to determine the areas of improvement. Mitchell et al.(2020) first presented the working-together continuum, to assist in identifying the elements of shared-creation collaboration. Those elements include “increasing degree of interaction, intensity of engagement and mutuality” (Mitchell et al., 2020, pg 735), among the professionals working together. The working-together continuum can support professionals in identifying where their collaborative practices fall within the range of the continuum. Each early intervention providers’ standards and ideals about collaboration may differ, so we should first understand our own workplace systems to determine how we may incorporate the elements of the working together continuum. Reflecting on your current workplace, can you identify an area that could be improved with further knowledge on meaningful and effective collaborative practices?
- Describe the collaboration continuum, in order to enhance their understanding of ideal forms of collaboration that are useful in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs
- Analyze and evaluate their current workplace collaboration practices and identify the characteristics within their collaborative efforts and where it may fall on the collaboration continuum
- Prioritize one action to enhance collaboration within their current workplace to improve outcomes that are sustainable for young children and their families
Presentation:
3545975_18336BreAnneWhite.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
BreAnne White
(Primary Presenter), breanne.white@outlook.com ;
Bre'Anne White is an Academic Preschool Teacher at the Texas Hearing Institute, where she specializes in fostering early learning and language development in deaf children. Passionate about creating inclusive and engaging learning environments, Bre’Anne integrates evidence-based practices to support her students' unique needs.
Currently pursuing her graduate degree at Fontbonne University, Bre’Anne is dedicated to advancing her expertise in early intervention and collaborative practices.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Grants for Other activities from Office of Special Education Programs.
• Receives Salary for Employment from Texas Hearing Institute .
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Melinda Webb School at The Texas Hearing Institute
Office of Special Education Program Scholar .
Nature: Salary
Tuition Scholarship .
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.