2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/19/2024 | 3:00 PM - 3:25 PM | Thoughtful Family Engagement | Mineral Hall B/C
Thoughtful Family Engagement
In promoting and enhancing family engagement, it is important to consider the language used with multicultural families with children recently identified as deaf or hard of hearing during the initial entry into the world of early intervention. Moreover, this process is not merely a procedural evaluation but involves a comprehensive assessment with intricate complexities, challenges, and opportunities. The framework is usually based on language acquisition, namely which communication approach the families want to pursue. Each family’s experience is distinct and influenced by various factors, including emotional responses, professionals' backgrounds, access to resources, and the support network in place. These experiences will be shared and discussed to tailor both empathetic and effective engagement strategies that resonate with each family's diverse needs and expectations. Research and practice, as applied with hundreds of families, inform us of how to balance the imperative for language acquisition and development and multicultural considerations, serving as the cornerstone for the child’s cognitive, social, and educational growth. The aim is to foster environments where families are active participants and promote intervention strategies as dynamic and diverse as the children and families they are designed to serve.
- To describe with the perspective of multicultural lens how the initial intake process could be adjusted.
- To articulate and share specific examples of authentic family engagement.
- To identify intervention strategies that adapt to the diverse needs and cultural backgrounds of each family, enhancing overall effectiveness and inclusivity.
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Presenters/Authors
Tawny Holmes Hlibok, Esq.
(Co-Presenter,Co-Author), Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf, director@ceasd.org;
Tawny Holmes Hlibok serves as Language Policy Counsel at Gallaudet University along with being an Associate Professor in the Department of Deaf Studies. She graduated from University of Baltimore School of Law. In addition to her law degree with a family mediation & law certification, she has a Master of Arts in Family Centered Early Education. Ms. Holmes Hlibok has worked four years in teaching deaf and hard of hearing students, mainly in the early childhood education field. As part of her position, she focuses on improving/establishing federal and state policy related to early intervention and education of deaf and hard of hearing children. Ms. Holmes Hlibok strongly believes in the power of collaboration and has contributed a significant amount of her work towards this endeavor, in varying ways, from promoting parent resources to inclusion of deaf and hard of hearing adult professionals.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Salary for Employment from CEASD.
• Receives Salary for Employment from Gallaudet University.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Melissa Herzig
(Co-Presenter,Co-Author), Gallaudet University, melissa.herzig@gallaudet.edu;
Dr. Melissa Herzig is the Director of Bilingual Evaluations, Testing, and Assessment Center. She was a Director of the Translation in the Science of Learning Center of the Visual Language and Visual Learning and the Co-Founder and Assistant Director for the Ph.D. in Educational Neuroscience program at Gallaudet University. She has a BA in Biology from Gallaudet University. She received an MA and her Doctoral Degree in Teaching and Learning at the University of California, San Diego. She worked at The Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, at the Language and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at San Diego State University, and at the Center for Research in Language at UCSD. She was a teacher at a mainstreamed high school for 8 years, and a supervisor for student teachers and interns at UCSD and National University. She has published numerous articles about language learning, bilingualism, and motivation for reading.
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Genie Gertz
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Gallaudet University, genie.gertz@gallaudet.edu;
Dr. Genie Gertz, a professor of Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University, having been in the field for over 25 years. She has a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from Gallaudet University, a master’s degree in organizational development in higher education from New York University, and a doctorate in cultural studies in education with an emphasis on racial/ethnic studies. Her dissertation coined the term of dysconscious audism. She also co-edited the Deaf Studies Encyclopedia and has served in several capacities, as a faculty, administrator, researcher and activist. Born Deaf to hearing parents, Genie emigrated to the United States from St. Petersburg, Russia when she was eight years old and her upbringing deeply instilled in her the values of diversity in language and culture, that is instrumental in her teaching and scholarship and is also passing on to her six-year old Deaf child.
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