2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/19/2024 | 3:30 PM - 3:55 PM | Sensory Processing Differences in Children with Hearing Loss: Increasing awareness in order to increase a child’s success in accessing and developing language. | Granite A-C
Sensory Processing Differences in Children with Hearing Loss: Increasing awareness in order to increase a child’s success in accessing and developing language.
We all process a multitude of sensory information throughout our day and at times we all seek or avoid sensory input. Having a thorough understanding of a child’s sensory processing can greatly improve the quality of parent-child interactions and speech and language development.
Over the past 12 months the therapists at the Listen Foundation have been working closely with and learning from an OT who specializes in very young children with sensory processing differences. Through this collaboration we have increased our knowledge and use of sensory activities and effective strategies in sessions. In addition, we have also expanded our view of the role sensory processing plays in the children/families we serve.
We often we think of a very active toddler bouncing off the walls as a sensory seeking child. But what about our really calm and very quiet children? These children are often struggling with speech and language. We will discuss the various components that make up our sensory system and share and discuss activities the family can incorporate throughout their day and strategies early-intervention providers can implement into sessions to help regulate young sensory systems.
Understanding sensory processing in children and teaching families to implement effective strategies can improve audiology visits, increase speech production and auditory comprehension and of course can increase attention to task.
- 1. Participants will be able to state 3 child behaviors associated with tactile, vestibular and proprioceptive sensory systems.
- 2. Participants will identify 3 strategies for each of the above sensory system that can be utilized throughout the day.
- 3. Participants will create a plan to put into practice 3 activities that feed the sensory system and help regulate behaviors.
Presentation:
3478265_16299JoannaStith.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Joanna Stith
(Primary Presenter), The Listen Foundation, joanna@listeningforlife.com;
Dr. Joanna Stith has been working with children with hearing loss and their families for over 25 years. She currently lives in Erie, Colorado and has a private practice, Listening for Life, where she provides listening and spoken language therapy for children and adults. She serves as an adjunct professor with the University of Colorado-Boulder, is a Listen Foundation therapist, provides early-intervention, mentors therapists working toward becoming LSLS certified, and facilitates Love and Logic Parenting courses.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Nanette Thompson
(Co-Presenter), Listen Foundation, Inc., nanette@listening2learn.com;
Nanette is a an SLP and a LSLS Cert. AVT. She works closely with the Listen Foundation and the Colorado Home Intervention Program, University of Colorado Hospital, and Rocky Mountain Cochlear Implant Center providing diagnostic services and weekly speech, language, and listening therapy to families, children, and adults.
She also provides training and mentoring to professionals across the United States in the areas of parent coaching, auditory skill development, language expansion, and speech production.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.