Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint slides

    • Reading Intervention for Deaf Children

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course info

Course description: 

This course will aid speech-language pathologists and other professionals to support reading in DHH children. It will review relevant models and research on reading and evaluate reading interventions based on sound, sign, and print. It will provide practical resources for implementing these approaches with your own clients, including a sample lesson plan and several case studies.

 

Agenda: 

20 minutes: Introduction to reading 

40 minutes: Speech-based interventions 

40 minutes: Sign-based interventions 

40 minutes: Print-based interventions 

20 minutes: Case study/sample lesson 

10 minutes: Wrap-up 

10 minutes: Resources 

 

Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Define the components involved in reading and describe how they apply to deaf individuals
  2. Describe characteristics of deaf readers
  3. Apply information about sound-based, sign-based, and print-based interventions for reading to hypothetical case studies.

Instructor(s)

Kristen Secora

Dr. Kristen Secora is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She has been an SLP since 2016 and has worked with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children who use ASL in a public school setting. She is passionate about language development in DHH children.

Brittany Lee

Dr. Brittany Lee is a clinical fellow at Lake Murray Speech and Language in San Diego. She has experience teaching English to DHH students at the university level. She is passionate about literacy development in DHH children.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Dr. Secora receives a salary from the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Dr. Lee receives a salary from Lake Murray Speech and Language.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Both Dr. Secora and Dr. Lee are members of the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA). 

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.30 ASHA CEUs.