2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
| Measuring the Spoken Language Development of Deaf Children using the SLC
Measuring the Spoken Language Development of Deaf Children using the SLC
Current practices in the field of deaf education encourage the evaluation of deaf and hard-of-hearing children in manners that suggest these children are simply “hearing children who cannot hear” (Marschark & Knoors, 2012, p. 136), with practices based on the assumption that the use of auditory phonics provides full access to language. To remedy such issues, the Spoken Language Checklist (SLC) was developed with the intent of measuring deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s spoken language acquisition to provide parents with information to best stimulate their child’s language development. The SLC was developed to monitor and identify developmental milestones in a user-friendly checklist format that includes norms. The availability of the SLC will help parents and professionals monitor the spoken language development of DHH children and provide interventions should any delays be observed. Recognizing the delays early could prevent any insurmountable effects for cognitive development and further language development. Does current research indicate that the SLC shows that deaf and hard-of-hearing children acquire spoken language at a similar rate as their hearing peers?
- Participants will gain an understanding of how to use the Spoken Language Checklist with DHH children.
- Participants will access research that shows how spoken language acquisition is happening with deaf children.
- Participants will better be able to identify areas of weaknesses in spoken language development and how to remedy such weaknesses.
Presentation:
23278_13635AshleyGreene-Woods.pdf
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Presenters/Authors
M. Diane Clark
(Primary Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Lamar University, diane.clark@lamar.edu;
Dr. M. Diane Clark, is a full professor and chair of the Department of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education at Lamar University. Prior to coming to Lamar, she was a full professor and Program Director for their Ph.D. program in the Critical Studies in the Education of Deaf Learners at Gallaudet University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro in 1985 under her advisor, Marc Marschark. She was a founding member of the NSF funded Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning. Diane co-developed the Visual Communication and Sign Language (VCSL) Checklist as the only normed ASL assessment for children birth to 5 years of age. Recently, she worked with DSDE faculty and students to develop a parallel Spoken Language Development checklist. Deaf children from 0-5 can be monitored for language development in ASL and/or English.
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Ashley Greene
(POC,Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Lamar University, agreene7@lamar.edu;
Ashley Greene-Woods attended Texas Women's University for her Bachelor's and Master's in Education of the Deaf. She graduated with a doctoral degree from Lamar University in May 2020, where she also serves as a full-time faculty member. She has worked in the field of Deaf Education for ten years serving various roles from Pre-K to 12th grade, teaching different subjects. Her research interests include language acquisition, language assessments, and classroom best practices.
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