Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Educational Audiologist Scope of Practice

    • Educational Audiologists and Clinical Audiologists

    • Supporting DHH Students through Collaboration

    • IDEA

    • Collaborate Much? Roles and Responsibilities of SLPs/TODs/AuDs

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: Hearing support professionals such as the educational audiologist, clinical audiologist, teacher of the deaf, and speech pathologist, are partners on the school education team. Together they address the deaf and hard of hearing students’ needs and promote language and communication access that is necessary to for participating and learning in the students’ educational environment. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Section 504, and the ADA all contain regulations relating to the services and accommodations. The Educational Audiology Association created outcomes exemplifying best practice and developed a tool which assigns and organizes the responsibilities of the professional partners to ensure that all services are provided without gaps. Case studies demonstrating use of the tool will be discussed.

Agenda:

5 minutes: Introduction

15 minutes: Role of the educational audiologist vs. clinical audiologist

10 minutes: Role of the SLP and TOD

15 minutes: Best practice: Student Outcomes

25 minutes: Survey Data: how do school districts use hearing support professionals

5 minutes: Development of EAA’s Tool

15 minutes: EAA Tool and how it can be used. Benefits

15 minutes: Case studies


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. List five best practice outcomes for deaf/hard of hearing children
  2. Discuss the unique responsibilities of each hearing support professional, as well as shared responsibilities
  3. Describe EAA’s organizational tool to delineate responsibilities and benefits to its usage

Instructor(s)

Susan Dillmuth-Miller

Susan Dillmuth-Miller has 25 years of experience as an audiologist in the clinical and educational settings. She is an associate professor at East Stroudsburg University and teaches in the graduate SLP program. She serves on the Educational Audiology Association Board of Directors and has contributed to their position statement Shared and Suggested Roles of Educational Audiologists, Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and Speech-Language Pathologists and presented nationally on this topic. She has a minor in Deaf Education.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Susan is receiving an honorarium from Language First for presenting.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Susan is on the Board of Directors for the Educational Audiology Association.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs.