2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
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3/18/2018 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Using LENA Technology to Enhance Intervention, Progress Monitoring and Assessment | Capitol 2
Using LENA Technology to Enhance Intervention, Progress Monitoring and Assessment
This session will present the benefits of LENA mobile for providing families with information that can enhance their child’s language development. Information about how Adult Word Count, Conversational Turns, and Child Vocalizations can be used to provide parents with information that can support goals of early intervention. Parents receive information about quantity, percentile rank and standard scores. Interpretation of the daily total and the hourly data. Examples will be provided for audience analysis. Additionally, interpretation about the environmental data: percent in silence, in noise, with TV/radio, overlapping speech, distant speech and meaningful speech is also provided. Examples of children with unusual levels of noise, silence, TV/radio, overlapping speech, or meaningful speech will be provided for audience interpretation. Information is also provided from the Automated Vocalization Analysis, providing information about the quality of the child’s vocal production. Case studies for interpretation will be provided for audience analysis and interpretation. The length of the child’s vocal utterance is also provided, the vocal productivity score and cases will be presented. Information using the social adaptation risk factor, as an autism screen, will also be included. Longitudinal data on some children will also be provided and discussed, particularly on complex cases.
- Participants will identify parent input variables that impact child language outcomes
- Participants will identify child variables that indicate risk factors for additional disabilities
- Participants will design early intervention strategies relevant to the LENA data
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Presenters/Authors
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(Primary 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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Dinah Beams
(Co-Presenter), Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind, dbeams@csdb.org;
Dinah Beams is the program coordinator for the Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP), a statewide, in-home, family-centered early intervention program for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing that is part of the Outreach Department of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB). Previous experience includes working as an Outreach Specialist at Beginnings for Parents of Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing in North Carolina and as both a classroom and itinerant teacher in Colorado. Dinah is the author of the CHIP Parent Manual and the Curriculum for Sign Language Instructors, and co-developer of materials for the Integrated Reading Project, part of CSDB’s Early Literacy Development Initiative for young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dinah also serves on the board for Colorado Families for Hands and Voices.
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Mallene Wiggin
(Co-Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Mallene.Wiggin@colorado.edu;
Mallene Wiggin received her Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders from University of the Pacific. She continued her studies at University of Kansas and earned her Master of Arts degree in Speech Pathology. Mallene specialized in children with hearing impairment and worked in cochlear implant centers, early intervention, and educational settings prior to completing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado - Boulder. Her research interests include speech, language and auditory development in young children with cochlear implants.
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