17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
3/20/2018 | 2:20 PM - 2:45 PM | Starring in Their Own Stories: Language Experience Books for Children with Hearing Loss | Quartz A/B
Starring in Their Own Stories: Language Experience Books for Children with Hearing Loss
Children with hearing loss from families with limited resources struggle to develop language commensurate with their peers with typical hearing. In fact, the literature indicates that these children often have less sophisticated language than their same aged peers with similar hearing losses from more affluent families. Early intervention, including coaching parents, has been shown to improve the outcomes for young children with hearing loss, especially those from families with lower socioeconomic backgrounds (SES). One strategy that the professionals working with these families can utilize to teach vocabulary, language and syntax is language experience books. In this presentation, participants will explore the research that supports the use of language experience books and learn their key components. They will then acquire specific strategies for coaching a family with low SES, limited caregiver education and/or inadequate resources, on how to create a language experience book for their own child. Finally, participants will create a sample language experience book that can be used as an exemplar in their own practice.
- Participants will examine the existing research that supports the use of language experience books for children with hearing loss.
- Participants identify the key components of a language experience book.
- Participants will demonstrate to families of children with hearing loss when and how to create language experience books.
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Presenters/Authors
Melissa Jensen
(), Presbyterian Ear Institute, melissa.stone.jensen@gmail.com;
Melissa Jensen, EdD CED LSLS Cert. AV Ed. is a Deaf Educator and currently serves as the Director of Early Learning at Presbyterian Ear Institute. She received her undergraduate degree in Deaf Education, her Master’s Degree in Early Intervention in Deaf Education and her Doctorate in Education, all from Fontbonne University in St. Louis, MO. She is a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist Certified Auditory-Verbal Educator (LSLS Cert. AVEd), a credentialed Early Intervention Specialist (Developmental Therapist, Hearing), and a certified Teacher of the Deaf in Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. She is also the parent of an adult daughter with bilateral cochlear implants.
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