Tag Archives: Professionals

Co-Managing Behavior with Parents

Behavior is a tricky, touchy subject.  Every family parents differently and has different experiences, expectations, and emotions regarding how best to help children learn to behave within the norms of their family and culture.  Usually, parents are the primary disciplinarians, the ones setting the standards for their children and dealing with the tantrums, disagreements, andContinue reading “Co-Managing Behavior with Parents”

ADVANCING PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES IN POVERTY

Susan Lenihan Ph.D., CED Jenna Voss Ph.D., LSLS Cert. AVEd Colleen Kinsella Approximately 1 in 5 children in the US live in poverty.  How can listening and spoken language professionals better serve them?  

DIG DEEP: BUILDING A MENTORING MINDSET

Sherri Fickenscher M.S., CED, LSLS Cert. AVEd Ashley Garber M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT Fickenscher and Garber shared their four pillars of mentoring, asking the audience questions that prompted self-reflection on the role of mentors and mentees as “learning partners” during the LSLS certification process.

ACCELERATING PARENT EFFECTIVENESS: AN EVIDENCE-BASED COACHING MODEL

Maribeth Lartz Ph.D. Tracy Meehan M.A., DT-H Wendy Deters M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVEd The presenters, faculty members from the AIM TO BE AHEAD listening and spoken language graduate certificate program at Illinois State University, shared their five-step checklist that helps students improve their parent coaching skills.  

2020: REASSESSING TEACHER PREPARATION – THE NEXT DECADE

Dan Salvucci M.Ed., M.E.D., CCC-A Jenna Voss Ph.D., CED, LSLS Cert. AVEd The Fontbonne Clarke Northeast Collaborative is a distance learning program providing a master’s in deaf education for students both at Fontbonne’s home campus in St. Louis, Missouri and students at various oral school practicum sites across the Northeastern US.  

FROM “DREAMERS” TO “VELVET BULLDOZERS”: STOKES’ 6-STAGES

Louise Honck Cert. MRCSLT, PG. Dip. AVT, LSLS Cert. AVT Susannah Burden Cert. MRCSLT, Pg. Dip. AVT, LSLS Cert. AVT This presentation focused on parents’ journey from initial identification of their child’s hearing loss to acceptance and advocacy.