2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/05/2019 | 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | Vocabulary Acquisition and Predictors of Accelerated Vocabulary Growth in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing | Narita A/B
Vocabulary Acquisition and Predictors of Accelerated Vocabulary Growth in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Young children typically acquire new words at an astonishing rate, increasing their expressive vocabulary by an average of 35 new words per month from 18 to 36 months of age. Given the strong relationship between expressive vocabulary size and later reading ability, it is important to examine the vocabulary growth trajectory of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and to identify factors that increase the likelihood that their rate of vocabulary learning meets age expectations. In this presentation we will describe the rate and patterns of vocabulary acquisition of children who are deaf or hard of hearing relative to typical developmental benchmarks. Factors that are associated with delayed vocabulary acquisition over time will be discussed as well as child, family, and intervention characteristics that contribute to more typical, rapid, vocabulary learning. This information will be drawn from the National Early Childhood Assessment Project (NECAP) which includes results from over 3,000 assessments on children in 15 different states. Assessments were collected at regular intervals allowing for a longitudinal examination of vocabulary growth from 1 to 3 years of age.
- Characterize the typical rate of vocabulary growth across the birth to 3 period in both children who are hearing and those who are deaf or hard of hearing
- List risk factors for expressive vocabulary delays
- Identify factors associated with more successful vocabulary growth outcomes
Presentation:
18878_10504AllisonSedey.pdf
Handouts:
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Transcripts:
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Presenters/Authors
Allison Sedey
(Point of Contact,Primary Presenter), University of Colorado-Boulder, Allison.Sedey@colorado.edu;
Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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• Receives Grants for Employment from Centers for Disease Control.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Financial relationship with University of Colorado-Boulder.
Nature: Receives a salary from a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control supporting the collection of language outcomes.
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Christine Yoshinaga-Itano
(Co-Presenter,Author), 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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Craig Mason
(Co-Presenter,Author), University of Maine, craig.mason@maine.edu;
Craig A. Mason, Ph.D. is a Professor of Education and Applied Quantitative Methods at the University of Maine. He is a research methodologist with interests in quantitative methods and informatics, including large-scale, longitudinal, population-based data collection and analysis. As a methodologist, he has published, presented, and taught on multivariate analysis, multi-level modeling, epidemiological analysis, structural equation modeling, and growth modeling. He has been PI or Co-PI on $20 million in grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Education, and others. He has over 100 publications on topics ranging from the impact of the prenatal environment on child health and development, to designing healthy communities for Hispanic seniors.
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Mallene Wiggin
(Author), 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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