Language Assessment and Outcomes in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Title: Language Assessment and Outcomes in Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

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Description:

Documenting and understanding the language outcomes of children who are deaf or hard of hearing is a critical step in maximizing the language skills of this population. This webinar will explore language outcomes from a variety of perspectives. First, we will cover important considerations when selecting language assessments in terms of both measuring an individual child’s language abilities and when documenting language strengths and challenges across a program or state. General considerations for all children as well as specific issues for sub-groups will be shared. Additionally, we will present information about the language abilities of children with differing hearing levels along with factors that are associated with higher language skills and characteristics that put some children at more risk for language delay.

Learning Objectives

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• • • Suggest specific fields to include in a developmental outcomes database
    • List considerations when selecting language assessments for children who are deaf/hard of hearing, including specific sub-groups of children (e.g., children with unilateral hearing differences
    • State at least two important considerations when selecting assessments to monitor child language skills state- and/or program-wide
    • Describe factors that are associated with higher language outcomes in children who are deaf/hard of hearing and factors that put some children at more risk for language delay

Presenter: Allison Sedey 

Allison Sedey is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and researcher at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the assessment and accountability coordinator for the Early Intervention Outreach Program at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. Dr. Sedey received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied language acquisition in children who are deaf/hard of hearing as well as in children who have Down syndrome. Since that time, she has served as the project coordinator on a variety of grant-funded research projects examining predictors of developmental outcomes in young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Dr. Sedey is currently the director of the Outcomes and Developmental Data Assistance Center for EHDI Programs (ODDACE) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

This webinar was previously provided live on November 3, 2023.