Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Immigrant Families with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: This presentation will go over best practices when interacting with immigrant families with DHH children. It will include common barriers experienced by the immigrant community as well as ways to overcome those barriers.

Agenda:

5 minutes: Hands United explanation

20 minutes: Current data

20 minutes: What are the current barriers?

15 minutes: Possible solutions to barriers


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Define barriers experienced by the immigrant community

  2. Describe multiple solutions to these barriers

  3. State how to find data on DHH communities by area

Instructor(s)

Celena Ponce

Celena Ponce is trilingual in English, Spanish and ASL. She founded and runs a nonprofit that works with immigrant families with Deaf and hard of hearing children. Through her organization she teaches ASL classes in spoken Spanish, connects families with resources and develops curriculum for professionals and parents alike.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Celena is receiving royalties from Language First for this presentation.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Celena is the founder of Hands United nonprofit.

Content disclosure: Celena discusses her nonprofit in this presentation.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs.