2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/05/2019 | 3:45 PM - 4:10 PM | Tele-Intervention and Enhanced Family Engagement | International F
Tele-Intervention and Enhanced Family Engagement
Telepractice has been demonstrated to shift intervention from more traditional child-focused intervention to caregiver-focused coaching. Tele-intervention providers work from a remote location providing instruction, guidance, and feedback to help parents learn strategies to support their child’s development. This coaching model encourages providers to engage parents, and teaches parents to use learned skills with their child throughout their daily routines.
We will examine specific coaching strategies that have been demonstrated to be effective in early intervention sessions with families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and will present video clips that demonstrate the strategies. We will share tools to monitor the use of coaching behaviors, and discuss the benefits of feedback given by the provider to the caregiver during an early intervention session.
We will present a study of providers’ use of coaching strategies in family-centered early intervention, delivered in the telepractice condition. Results demonstrated that some coaching strategies occurred more frequently in telepractice than in the in-person condition.
We will discuss how a learning community, dedicated to the use of telehealth, coaching, and early intervention best practices, offers an opportunity for providers to learn from one another, share their experience and knowledge and advance the field of tele-early intervention.
- Participants will learn three effective caregiver coaching behaviors that therapists can use in both early intervention delivered via telepractice and in traditional home visits.
- Participants will understand 3 ways that telepractice can be used to support children who are deaf/hard of hearing, their families , and the professionals that work with them, including bringing specialty providers into a rural family’s home.
- Participants will learn how coaching (either via telehealth or through in-person sessions) supports parents’ engagement and competence in carrying out strategies to support their child’s development throughout their daily routines.
Presentation:
18878_10437PamelaDawson.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Kim Hamren
(Co-Presenter), Listen and Talk, kimh@listentalk.org;
Kimberly Hamren, M.Ed, CED, LSLS Cert. AVT, is a Teacher of the Deaf and Birth to Three Specialist at Listen and Talk. She has over 35 years of teaching experience and has worked at Listen and Talk since 1997 in a variety of positions including, preschool teacher, Listening and Spoken Language Auditory-Verbal Therapist, and Birth to Three Coordinator. Kim received her Teacher of the Deaf certification and her B.S. in Education from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and her M.Ed in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Kim has been a LSLS Cert. AVT since 2003. She is grateful for the opportunity to participate in the journey with families as they support the listening and spoken language development of young children with various hearing levels.
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Arlene Stredler-Brown
(Co-Presenter), Colorado EHDI, astredlerbrown@coehdi.org;
Arlene Stredler-Brown, PhD, CCC-SLP provides consultation and technical assistance to programs working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing in the United States and internationally. She has graduate degrees in Speech/Language Pathology, Education of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing, and a doctoral degree in Special Education. Her recent research focuses on telehealth and the use of coaching strategies in the delivery of family-centered early intervention. Having worked many years in program administration and policy development, Dr. Stredler-Brown brings this skill set to her role as Director of the Colorado Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program. Common themes guiding her work are: inclusiveness, collaboration, evidence-based practice and a commitment to infants and toddlers who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families.
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Pamela Dawson
(Primary Presenter), Hear ME Now, pdawson@hear-me-now.org;
Pam has been working in the field of Early Intervention for over 20 years. She holds a Masters degree in Early Intervention from the University of Maine.
As the director of hear ME now, a listening and spoken language program in Maine, she works to promote access to qualified LSL providers to all families, regardless of geographic location. hear ME now has been successfully using tele-intervention to coach families for over 6 years.
Pam serves on the Board of Directors for OPTION, the EHDI Planning Committee, and facilitates the NCHAM Tele-Intervention Learning Community. She has also served as co-chair of the Maine Part C Interagency Coordinating Council and a Northern New England Collaborative to examine access to services for families in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
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Natalie Lutkewitte
(Co-Presenter), Central Institute for the Deaf, Nlutkewitte@cid.edu;
Natalie Lutkewitte holds a Master’s Degree in Deaf Education from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, MO. She has certification from the Council on the Education of the Deaf (CED).Natalie is credentialed as an early intervention provider in the states of Missouri and Illinois. Natalie has worked in the field of deaf education for eleven years.
As a parent educator in the Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center at Central Institute for the Deaf, Natalie provides home visits and teletherapy for families of children age birth to three in the early intervention program. She coaches and educates parents on issues related to hearing loss, language and speech acquisition, and auditory skill development. She also attends audiology appointments with families, attends and participates in IFSP and transition meetings, provides in-service and instruction at childcare facilities, and supervises student teachers from area graduate programs.
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Beth Cole
(Co-Presenter), CDHS/OEC/DCFS/EI Colorado, beth.cole@state.co.us;
Beth Cole is the Fiscal Accountability Manager for Early Intervention Colorado, the early intervention (Part C) program at the Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Early Childhood. Prior to coming to work for the State, Beth was the Part C Coordinator in a local Part C program for seven years. Previous work experiences include serving as a Part C service coordinator and leading a local parent advocacy organization. Beth has a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from Regis University and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado Denver. She has two adult children, one of whom has a diagnosis of autism. She uses her experience as a parent, as well as an early childhood professional, to help improve supports and services for Colorado families.
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