Course curriculum

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    Course content

    • PowerPoint

    • Spoken Language Checklist and Manual

    • Spoken Language Checklist Spanish

    • Using the Spoken Language Checklist with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

    • Quiz

    • Evaluation

    • Continuing Education Credits

Course information

Course description: Changes in legislation require more frequent evaluation of Deaf children using ASL and English assessments. To date, there are an insufficient number of ASL and English evaluations that are normed and can appropriately be compared to one other. The Cognition in Context lab led under Dr. M. Diane Clark at Lamar University collected data from hearing children to develop norms for an English checklist. The purpose of this checklist is to measure the language development Deaf children who use spoken language. The audience will learn about the process of developing the checklist, what the data tells us about typical children's language development, and how we can use this checklist with Deaf children.


Agenda:

10 minutes: Language acquisition

5 minutes: Language access & language deprivation

10 minutes: Language processing in the brain for auditory and visual languages

5 minutes: Parent choice

5 minutes: Bimodal bilingualism

5 minutes: Legislation

5 minutes: Available assessments

5 minutes: Informal vs formal assessments

5 minutes: Parent-friendly checklists

10 minutes: Development of SLC

10 minutes: Administration and evaluation of SLC


Learner outcomes:

Participants will be able to:

  1. Explain the process of developing a normed checklist

  2. Explain the process of collecting data for evaluation

  3. Evaluate language acquisition of Deaf children

Instructor(s)

Ashley Greene

Ashley Greene, Ed.D. earned her degree in Deaf Education and Deaf Studies from Lamar University in 2020. She is currently an assistant professor at Lamar University. Prior to earning her Ed.D., she worked at two different public school districts in Texas as a Deaf Education teacher. Her experience as a teacher includes the pre-k age group up high school. Her research includes language acquisition of deaf children with a focus on bimodal bilingual children. She was part of the team that developed the Spoken Language Checklist (Clark et al., 2021) and is currently doing a study with a residential school for the deaf to evaluate their young students’ language acquisition in either ASL or spoken English, or both if the child uses both languages.

Speaker disclosures

Financial disclosures: Ashley is salaried by Lamar University and is receiving royalties for this course.

Nonfinancial disclosures: Ashley is a ACE-DHH board member.

Content disclosures: This presentation focuses only on the Spoken Language Checklist (SLC).

Continuing Education

This course is offered for 0.10 ASHA CEUs.
This course is offered for 0.10 RID CEUs.