2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
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Cultural Humility: Fostering Family Engagement in Early Intervention
With approximately one million immigrants arriving in the United States each year, the United States population has become increasingly diverse including families that speak a language other than English at home. In 2020, the Pew Research Center found the number of immigrants to the United States has more than quadrupled since 1965, which accounts for roughly one-fifth of the world’s migrants today. Immigrant families have their own cultures with unique beliefs, traditions, rituals, activities, languages, practices, and communities that differ from the mainstream American culture. To best serve diverse families, EI professionals need to understand how culture drives the activities, beliefs, expectations, and routines of families with children who have hearing differences. When EI professionals engage in self-reflection and self-examination of their own culture (Cultural humility) they are then able to enter into a relationship with the family with the intention of honoring their beliefs, customs and values (Cultural responsiveness). This trusting relationship provides a solid foundation for family engagement in early intervention. This instructional session will support participants to begin an exploration into how they can develop cultural humility and work with interpreters and cultural brokers to provide culturally responsive assessment and intervention to diverse families within the EHDI system. An overview on common cultural beliefs about hearing differences, working effectively with interpreters and cultural brokers, and overcoming challenges will be addressed. Recommendations and resources will be shared.
Due to the complex and individual nature of this topic, it will best be shared in an interactive instructional session. Participants will have a greater opportunity to share their own cultural journeys, and practice skills relevant to family-centered intervention. Participants will receive the research evidence for these practices in long-term developmental outcomes, examples of how providers can educate themselves about the culture, language, expectations of their families and modify their early intervention strategies
- Attendees will define cultural humility and responsiveness and begin an exploration of their own cultural views.
- Participants will review recommendations and resources on developing and implementing culturally responsive practices in family-centered early intervention practices.
- Participants will be able to describe common cultural beliefs on hearing differences, identify typical stumbling blocks, and examine tips on how to optimize their work with interpreters and cultural brokers, which will lend to increased positive communication and increased family engagement.
Presentation:
3478265_16206SandyBowen.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(Co-Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Christie.Yoshi@colorado.edu;
Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is a Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, Professor Emerita, Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Visiting Professor, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, Centre for Deaf. She has over 125 published articles and chapters with a focus on universal newborn hearing screening and predictors of developmental outcomes of children with hearing loss with an emphasis on children and families from multicultural/linguistic backgrounds, and those with socio-economic and linguistic challenges. She presented on this topic throughout the United States and globally. She received Honors from the American Speech/Language & Hearing Association and was a Jerger Career Research Awardee from the American Academy of Audiology. She serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Audiology and is a member of the Audiology committee for the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP).
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Sandy Bowen
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), University of Northern Colorado , sandy.bowen@unco.edu;
Sandy Bowen, Ph.D., is a Professor in the area of the education of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Bowen has worked with infants, children and youth who are deaf/hard of hearing in Utah, Texas, Arizona and Colorado for 34 years. Dr. Bowen received a Ph.D. in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of Arizona. She has a Masters degree in Deaf Education and a Bachelor degree in Elementary Education. Dr. Bowen’s research interests include: early intervention, teacher preparation, D/dHH students and families who are culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse, and deafblindness. In addition to her university assignments, Dr. Bowen is an early interventionist in the Colorado Early Intervention Program. She works with infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families from diverse cultures.
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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Robin Getz
(Co-Presenter), CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program), rlgetz@csdb.org;
Robin Getz, MA, is a Colorado Hearing Resource Coordinator (CO-Hear) with the CHIP (Colorado Home Intervention Program) program through the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. She supports urban families with newly identified children, birth to three years of age. Profoundly deaf from birth, Robin began her formal education in Puerto Rico at a bilingual Spanish/English school for Kindergarten and 1st grade before moving back to NYC where she was born. She has lived in many places nationally, and internationally as a child. She earned a double major in Psychology; and Communication Disorders and Speech Sciences for her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds two Master's Degrees: Mental Health Counseling from Gallaudet University, and Deaf Education from the University of Northern Colorado. Robin began her professional career as a licensed Mental Health Therapist (LPC), which she practiced for about 8 years until she realized her heart was in the early intervention field. She has worked as an early interventionist with the CHIP program for 23 years with families from diverse cultures. She enjoys reading, traveling, and trying new ethnic foods
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