2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/18/2024 | 10:05 AM - 11:00 AM | The Importance of Touch for Young Learners with Hearing & Vision Loss | Capitol 3
The Importance of Touch for Young Learners with Hearing & Vision Loss
Over the past decade there has been a major shift in the way touch techniques are labeled and used with DeafBlind adults, particularly with making distinctions between traditional Tactile American Sign Language (TASL) and Protactile American Sign Language (PTASL). While these advances are happening in the adult DeafBlind community, this movement has gone on without much consideration for the way in which congenitally DeafBlind children have been educated. Research in the field of DeafBlind education has indicated for decades the critical aspect of touch in early cognitive and communication development (Nicholas, Jude. “From Active Touch to Tactile Communication: What’s Tactile Cognition Got To Do With It?” DBI Review Number 45 (2010), Moss, Kate. “Some Things to Learn from Learning Through Touch” SEE/HEAR Newsletter (2005) and Miles, Barbara “Talking the Language of Hands to the Hands” DB-LINK (2003).) This presentation will address the critical needs to link practices being put to use by DeafBlind adults to those of young learners with combined hearing and vision loss.
- Participants will learn how the emotional and distinctive aspects of touch cannot be separated in the processing of information.
- Participants will learn the benefits of touch at an early age to encourage the development of trust, social awareness and rapport.
- Participants will learn successful "non-traditional" touch strategies, as modeled by DeafBlind adults.
Presentation:
3478265_16370SusanneMorrow.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Susanne Morrow
(Primary Presenter), New York DeafBlind Collaborative, susanne.morrow@qc.cuny.edu;
Susanne Morgan Morrow, MA, CI, CT has almost 30 years of experience in the fields of deafness and deafblindness. She earned a masters degree at Gallaudet University in Rehabilitation Counseling for the Deaf and then began her career at Helen Keller National Center and then with the National Technical Assistance Consortium on Deaf-Blindness. In her early career, she obtained national certification as a sign language interpreter and provided extensive training on DeafBlind interpreting strategies. Today, Susanne is the Project Director of the New York DeafBlind Collaborative, a federally funded grant for NYS, and is the owner of DeafBlind Training, Interpreting & Professional Development (DB-TIP, Inc.). Susanne’s work aims to bring the lessons learned from adults who are DeafBlind with lived-experiences to young learners who are DeafBlind to enhance communication access and rapport with the world.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Personal,Professional (Since this work is directly with people, there are many overlapping interests in the Deaf and DeafBlind fields and communities.) (Since this work is directly with people, there are many overlapping interests in the Deaf and DeafBlind fields and communities.)
relationship for Volunteer membership on advisory committee or review panels,Other volunteer activities.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with New York DeafBlind Collaborative, DeafBlind Training, Interpreting & Professional Development (DB-TIP).
Nature: Director of federally funded grant and owner of small side business.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.