2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/18/2024 | 1:55 PM - 2:20 PM | Read to Me: Story-sharing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children | Capitol 5
Read to Me: Story-sharing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children
Story-sharing, or reading a book with a child, is key to their development of language and literacy skills. This presentation aims to teach professionals how to work with families on productive story-sharing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. The research-based curriculum will discuss positioning your child and the book while reading and will explore the ways Deaf parents read to their children and how to incorporate that for families, regardless of the child's language modality. We will also cover rereading a text and how families can expand on literacy skills with each repetition. Through the presentation, we will touch on some examples of picture books that were written for a DHH audience and which serve as positive representation for Deaf and Hard of Hearing children.
- Participants will be able to position themselves and the DHH child in an optimal way for story-sharing.
- Participants will be able to identify techniques for successful story-sharing.
- Participants will be able to define the importance of reading with DHH children.
Presentation:
3478265_16305MaddieHinkle.pdf
Handouts:
3478265_16305MaddieHinkle.pdf
Transcripts:
3478265_16305MaddieHinkle.docx
Presenters/Authors
Maddie Hinkle
(Primary Presenter), CHS Youth and Family Connections, mhinkle@anixter.org;
Maddie Hinkle has been involved in the Deaf community for the past ten years and is fluent in American Sign Language. After receiving an undergraduate degree in English from Oberlin College, she went on to attend Gallaudet University to complete her MA in Deaf Studies: Early Language Advocacy. During her graduate degree, Maddie worked for the Northwestern Illinois Association in various deaf educator roles with a range of age groups, most recently with preschool students. Now, Maddie is the Youth and Family Connections Coordinator at CHS, working to provide access to support services and resources for families of children who are Deaf, DeafBlind, or Hard of Hearing. As a disabled person, she is especially passionate about accessibility and inclusivity. She specializes in the early development of Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing children. Her master's thesis focused on this specialty topic of positive representational literature in picture books aimed at young Deaf audiences.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment,Management position from Chicago Hearing Society: A Division of Anixter Center.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.