2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/03/2019 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Listening and Spoken Language: From Start to Finish | International F
Listening and Spoken Language: From Start to Finish
This session is designed to help attendees understand, “from start to finish,” the foundational and developmental aspects of listening and spoken language. Early interventionists, clinicians, and educators working with young children who are deaf or hard of hearing are often challenged by “what to do.” Parents who are interested in helping their child learn to talk and develop age-level speech and language skills may have no idea how to make that happen or that it’s even an option. The presenters will address the critically important components of knowledge, skills, abilities, and services that need to be in place to meet the comprehensive needs of young children and their families as they pursue listening and spoken language. Professionals and parents who attend this session will gain an appreciation of what is needed to develop and enhance listening and spoken language skills from the point of identification/diagnosis to arrival at school “kindergarten ready.” The following topics will be woven into the developmentally aligned structure of this presentation:
• An overview of the range of communication modes/possibilities for teaching children and their families
• Principles of Auditory-Verbal Therapy and Auditory-Verbal Education;
• The basis and explanation of terms and phrases such as "neurodevelopmental emergency," "the ear as the doorway to the brain," and 'brain access devices;"
•Audiological management and indicators of excellence in audiology services foundational to teaching a child to listen through hearing;
•Aspects of a comprehensive assessment of a child's listening and spoken language development;
•Schedules of development;
•Listening and spoken language, parent coaching and guidance strategies
Active learning will take place in small and large group activities. Videotape samples will be used to address the above areas of focus. A host of resources will be reviewed/shared. “Ask Anything” question and answer periods will be offered as part of this session.
- Participants will be able to list the range of communication and language opportunities for teaching infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Participants will be able to describe the critical importance of excellence in audiology as the foundation of listening and spoken language development
- Participants will be able to detail key components of assessment and intervention that equip professionals, parents, and, ultimately, children in optimizing access to hearing and, therefore, spoken language.
Presentation:
18878_10217GaylaGuignard.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Gayla Guignard
(Primary Presenter), Alexander Graham Bell Association, gguignard@agbell.org;
Gayla Hutsell Guignard is the Chief Strategy Officer for the Alexander Graham Bell Association. She was the Indiana State EHDI Coordinator for six year and also spent two years as the inaugural Director of the Indiana Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education. Gayla also as many years of direct experience in providing services to children who are deaf/hard of hearing and their families and training of undergraduate and graduate audiology, speech-language pathology and deaf education students. Gayla's work as an audiologist, speech-language pathologist, certified listening and spoken language specialist, and non-profit and government program administrator has provided her with multi perspectives of the field.
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• Receives Salary for Employment from AG Bell.
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Financial relationship with AG Bell.
Nature: FL3 Advisory Committee, HRSA EHDI Committee, World Hearing Forum.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Donald Goldberg
(Co-Presenter), College of Wooster/CCF, dgoldberg@wooster.edu;
Donald M. Goldberg, Ph.D., CCC-SLP/A, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Full Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the College of Wooster (Oho) and a member of the Professional Staff for the Hearing Implant Program (HIP) at the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute. Goldberg was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Newcastle’s Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) in North Rocks/Sydney Australia from December 2014 through February 2015.
Dr. Goldberg earned his Ph.D. at the University of Florida (UF) in 1985; Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from UF in 1979; and his Bachelor’s degree in Biology/Education from Lafayette College in Easton, PA (1977). He has been a university/college professor, the co-director of one of the largest cochlear implant centers in the United States, and is the former Executive Director of the Helen Beebe Speech and Hearing Center, Easton, Pennsylvania.
The co-author of
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• Receives Royalty options or other ownership interest for Other activities from Blue Tree Publishing.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Financial relationship with Blue Tree Publishing (Edmonds, WA) is the publisher of the Test of Auditory Functioning. .
Nature: Dr. Goldberg will receive a portion of each test sale (following the publication of the TAF, which is expected for October/November 2023).
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Carol Flexer
(Co-Presenter), The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, cflexer@uakron.edu;
Carol Flexer received her doctorate in audiology from Kent State University in 1982. She was at The University of Akron for 25 years as a Distinguished Professor of Audiology in the School of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. Special areas of expertise include pediatric and educational audiology. Dr. Flexer continues to lecture extensively nationally and internationally about pediatric audiology issues and has authored more than 155 publications. She has co-edited and authored thirteen books.
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