Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint slides

    • Language Skill Hierarchy

    • Error Data

    • Infographic - IEP and Goal Writing

    • Infographic - Hierarchy of Intervention

    • Inclusive and Accurate IEP and Goal Writing for Deaf Students

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Units

Course info

Course Description: This presentation will cover why it’s so difficult to write goals for Deaf students who speak American Sign Language (ASL). It will provide an overview of the Language Skill Hierarchy for Deaf children with language deprivation and how clinicians can use it to write appropriate and achievable goals. Accurate IEP writing will be discussed, including how to write present levels that correctly represent a Deaf child. Finally, we will review examples of goals written for Deaf children with language deprivation who speak ASL and discuss how to individualize them to the child.

 

Agenda:

15 minutes: Challenges of IEP and goal writing for deaf students

15 minutes: Overview of the Language Skill Hierarchy and how that can help us write goals

30 minutes: Writing accurate present levels and goals

15 minutes: Goals for older students

 

Learner Outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Explain how to use the Language Skill Hierarchy to write goals
  2. State 3 ways to make present levels more accurate for Deaf children
  3. Give 3 examples of achievable goals for Deaf children with language deprivation who speak ASL

Instructor(s)

Kimberly Ofori-Sanzo

Kimberly Ofori-Sanzo is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) who has experience working at a school for the deaf, as well as presenting and publishing on topics related to language acquisition, bilingualism, and language deprivation. She earned her B.A. in Psychology and in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Vermont in 2010, her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from Gallaudet University in 2012, and her Doctor of Speech-Language Pathology (SLPD) in 2022. She is a board-certified specialist in child language (BCS-CL) through the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders and is co-founder of the American Board of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialists (ABDHHS).

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosure: Kimberly is the owner and founder of Language First and received payment for this course.

Nonfinancial disclosure: Kimberly is a member of the American Speech and Hearing Association and the American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs.