Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Rethinking Aural Rehab

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: This presentation will provide an overview of the history of our fields and their roles in upholding the medical model of disability and upholding a view of the way people should communicate that oppresses the DHH community and sign language. This includes establishing a common vocabulary that is necessary for understanding how to rethink aural rehab. The presenters will share journeys of how they came to teach aural rehabilitation through a lens that prevents language deprivation, values the contribution of DHH adults, and views the Deaf community as part of human diversity. We will share resources used in preparing students to be practitioners who are aware of their own biases and the harm that has historically been done to DHH clients by SLPs and audiologists. There will be time for discussion of ways that all practitioners can serve DHH clients in a culturally affirming way that prevents language deprivation.

Agenda:

10 minutes: Introductions, our own experiences

20 minutes: Definitions of common vocabulary; why are we here? What does it mean to rethink aural rehab? Overview of the history of our field in relation to DHH people, discussion of power and privilege (hospital professionals vs. community and school-based professionals), myths and facts

30 minutes: Kym and Michelle will each share how they have adjusted their syllabi to rethink aural rehab

40 minutes: What can you do in your capacity as an educator/supervisor? This will include workshopping syllabi.


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Identify three examples of systemic oppression (historically or currently) in relation to our professions and the deaf community that has led to the need to rethink aural rehab 

  2. Develop three learning or therapy objectives/SMART goals that will allow them as practitioners, their students, or their supervisees rethink and reframe their aural rehab practices and perspectives

  3. Identify three possible individuals or systems of support that can assist them in applying a #RethinkingAuralRehab framework to higher education, supervision, or clinical work

Instructor(s)

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Kym and Michelle are receiving roya. Kym is an assistant professor at Worcester State University and a consultant deaf educator for The Learning Center for the Deaf and through public school partnerships. Michelle receives a percentage of her Iona University salary through the U.S. Department of Education grant, which funds the IACD, of which she is a co-director. 

Nonfinancial disclosures: Kym has no relevant nonfinancial disclosures. Michelle is the co-director of the IACD, which promotes a bilingual/bimodal approach to language development for deaf children.

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.15 ASHA CEUs.