2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
2/26/2017 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Demonstrating Key Steps in Achieving Literacy | Hanover C
Demonstrating Key Steps in Achieving Literacy
The first five to seven years in a child’s life is the optimum period for language acquisition and development. Parents/care providers are the best suited to promote and guide their children’s acquisition of language, being the ones that their children interact with the most. However, parents and caregivers often have their plate full, balancing responsibilities such as work, child care and other duties. They are often hard pressed to find time to ensure that their deaf or hard of hearing children is acquiring language at an age-appropriate rate. This workshop will provide simple and demonstrative ways for early intervention professionals to show parents and caregivers ways and specific strategies to stimulate their child’s language acquisition with the child's deaf and hard of hearing identity foremost in mind. Parents and caregivers will learn how to apply these methods at various times, such as during mealtimes and going out to the grocery store. Resources and tips are gathered from actual parents of deaf children, along with research-based information on incorporating language development in your child’s life on a regular basis. The presenter will also show how parents and caregivers can establish communication plans for relatives. Due to being an instructional session, hands-on activities, videos, and discussion will also be provided to ensure every concept is clear and take-home. Early intervention professionals and family members will enjoy this visual presentation with information they can use right away.
- Demonstrate family-friendly methods to effectively stimulate their children's language acquisition using a variety of methods
- Be able to detail resources available to enhance language acquisition
- Be able to list research-based strategies to incorporate language-related activities throughout the day
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Presenters/Authors
Tawny Holmes Hlibok, Esq.
(Point of Contact,Primary Presenter), 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:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from CEASD.
• Receives Salary for Employment from Gallaudet University.
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.
Melissa Herzig
(Co-Presenter), 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.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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