2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/19/2024 | 1:45 PM - 2:10 PM | It's All About Natural Language | Mineral Hall D/E
It's All About Natural Language
Whether you are a parent, teacher, speech-language pathologist, or early intervention provider, utilizing and creating the opportunity for natural language use provides an avenue to generalize functional language and communication skills that are at a child’s personal zone of proximal development. Natural language encourages a parent or educator to follow a child’s lead while still achieving language goals and targets. To demonstrate this, we will start with family routines and parent instruction on LSL strategies during the early intervention years. We will then review session clips showing classroom instruction of five children aged four to six with diverse and complex hearing loss etiologies in a listening and spoken language program. The areas of focus range from family routines, a structured literacy and science lesson, to an unstructured drawing break, all of which highlight the usefulness of natural opportunities for children 0-6 to practice language. The goal will be to show how applying listening and spoken language strategies, encouraging communication partner interaction, and following child interest can provide opportunities for children of all language development levels to listen and to use language in complex and meaningful ways.
- At the end of the sessions, participants will be able to: Identify and distinguish between natural language opportunities and structured/directive activities
- At the end of the sessions, participants will be able to: Integrate strategies to provide the most opportunities to use and generalize language and communication skills one-on-on and with peers.
- At the end of the sessions, participants will be able to: 3. List three ways to take a structured lesson and integrate natural language use.
Presentation:
3478265_16444AlexandraLewis.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Laurel Graham
(Co-Presenter), Spokane HOPE, laurelgraham2@gmail.com;
Laurel is from Spokane, Washington and moved to Bellingham, Washington to complete her undergraduate degree at Western Washington University. She graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders in the spring of 2015. Laurel moved to Logan, Utah the summer of 2015 in order to start Utah State University's Masters of Education program in Deaf Education and graduated in 2017. Laurel is in her third year as an early intervention provider at Spokane HOPE.
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.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Alexandra Lewis
(Primary Presenter), Spokane HOPE: Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children, alexandra.m.lewis@gmail.com;
Alexandra Lewis, M.Ed received her master’s degree in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education from Utah State University in 2019. She is currently a fifth-year teacher at Spokane HOPE in Spokane, Washington working towards her AVEd Certification.
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.