Early Intervention for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Marilyn Sass-Lehrer

Overview

A "must-have" for every professional studying or working with the families of deaf and hard-of-hearing infants and toddlers, Dr. Marilyn Sass-Lehrer provides readers with the evidence-based knowledge needed to implement interdisciplinary and collaborative early interventional programming for professionals and students.

Featuring a collaborative team of expert contributors across a variety of backgrounds and disciplines - including educators, audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and health care providers - Early Intervention for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families presents students and specialists with the fundamental knowledge they need to effectively design and deliver care to this population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199957743
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/20/2015
Series:	Professional Perspectives On Deafness: Evidence and Applications
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Marilyn Sass-Lehrer is Professor of Education at Gallaudet University and Co-Director of its Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program. She has published and presented internationally on topics related to early intervention. She is co-author of Parents and Their Deaf Children: The Early Years (2003) and co-editor of The Young Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Child: A Family-Centered Approach to Early Education (2003).

Table of Contents

Foreword
Manfred Hintermair

Preface
Marilyn Sass-Lehrer

List of Contributors

Part I. Early Intervention Foundations

1. What Every Early Intervention Professional Should Know
Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, Mary Pat Moeller, and Arlene Stredler-Brown

2. Developing and Sustaining Exemplary Practice Through Professional Learning
Mary Ellen Nevins and Marilyn Sass-Lehrer

3. Families: Partnerships in Practice
Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, Ann Porter, and Cheryl L. Wu

4. Legislation, Policies and Role of Research in Shaping Early Intervention
Barbara Raimondo and Christine Yoshinaga-Itano

5. Collaboration with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities
Paula Pittman, Beth S. Benedict, Stephanie Olson, and Marilyn Sass-Lehrer

Part II. Early Intervention Practices

6. Getting Started: Hearing Screening, Evaluation and Next Steps
Rachel St. John, Linda R. Lytle, Debra B. Nussbaum, and Angela Shoup

7. Developmental Assessment
Amy Szarkowski and Nicole Hutchinson

8. Collaboration for Communication, Language and Cognitive Development
Maribel Gárate and Susan Lenihan

9. Individualized Family Service Plans and Programming
Rosemary J. Gallegos, Kristi Halus, and Jodee Crace

10. Early Intervention in Challenging National Contexts
Claudine Störbeck and Alys Young

Editorial Reviews

"This book will serve as an invaluable resource to those who serve or are planning on serving families who have young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. This book captures the essence of the principles and guidelines of early intervention for this population and takes a big picture view of good intervention, and then narrows it down for practical application for the individual provider serving an individual family and child. As a parent myself, I often refer to my daughter's early intervention provider as 'Our Lifeline' in those early years. This book dissects in a thorough and research based manner exactly what that means."
—Janet DesGeorges, Executive Director, Hands & Voices

"Having embraced newborn screening for hearing sensitivity across the country and in many countries across the world, the promise of early identification of children who are deaf or hard of hearing is fulfilled only if access to language stimulation and timely and effective medical, audiological, and family-centered intervention services are provided. Marilyn Sass-Lehrer describes the principles which are the keys to fulfilling that promise. This new text covers theoretical and practical information that will be valuable for a wide audience of readers."
—Terrell A. Clark, Director of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program, Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Pediatric Psychologist; University Lecturer in Child Development

"The book is a useful resource for practitioners and trainees to keep at hand. It not only reminds early childhood professionals of the obligation to fully inform any and every family about all possible options for best serving them and their DHH infant or toddler, but provides rationales as well as information on different approaches families should be equally educated about...I found this book incredibly useful as a practitioner in training! Even though it is not written for children in primary school and beyond, I found the information on key early foundations specifically for DHH individuals immensely beneficial...Furthermore, the book supplies practitioners with a way to be consistent in implementing evidence-based practices and continuously reflecting on the process of the development of families as well as their DHH infants or toddlers."
—Paige Johnson, review in American Annals of the Deaf

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