The first purpose of this course is to provide the participant with an understanding of the impact hearing loss has on communication and language development.
The second purpose of this course is to provide the participant with the ability to identify specific needs of individual deaf and hard of hearing students (ages 0-21), towards achieving linguistic and communicative competence.
The third purpose of this course is to provide the participant with the skills to translate student needs into developmentally appropriate IFSP/IEP goals, lesson plans and direct interventions.
COURSE COMPETENCIES
Infants – Toddlers
1. Identify the basic aspects of human communication including the dimensions, features, and terminology of communication, speech and language.
2. Identify the development of communication and language for infants and toddlers. Describe the impact of hearing loss on this development.
3. Discuss current research supporting early intervention and the impact on language development.
4. Analyze language assessments for infants and toddlers with hearing impairment, including observation, play based assessment, parent interview and formalized assessment.
5. Identify the goals of early intervention for infants and toddlers with hearing impairment. Write IFSP outcomes in the area of communication and language development.
6. Identify intervention strategies for infants and toddlers in the area of communication and language development. Develop activities to support goals and strategies.
Pre-Schoolers (3-5)
1. Describe major approaches historically and currently used to teach language.
2. Describe best practice in designing a preschool language program.
3. Identify language goals for preschool children with hearing impairments.
4. Identify techniques for promoting communicative interaction in preschool.
5. Identify techniques for building vocabulary and facilitating specific language structures and syntax.
6. Identify strategies to promote language through thinking skills.
7. Analyze both formal and informal language assessment for preschoolers.
8. Write IEP objectives based on assessment.
9. Develop lesson plans and activities to support IEP objectives.
10. Develop instruction techniques that accommodate several language levels.
11. Understand and develop instruction to develop early literacy skills.
Elementary and Secondary Students
1. Describe typical language development in young children and adolescents.
2. Analyze the relationship of language and cognition.
3. Demonstrate understanding of conversational competence.
4. Identify pragmatic and extended discourse goals and requisite semantic and syntactic structures.
5. Evaluate and implement established language curriculums.
6. Analyze both formal and informal language assessments for elementary and secondary students.
7. Identify language goals for elementary, junior high and high school students, in a variety of educational settings.
8. Develop strategies and activities to promote language goals for elementary, junior high school and high school students.
9. Identify techniques for analyzing the written language of students with hearing impairment.
10. Identify techniques for promoting the development of written language for students with hearing impairment.
11. Identify techniques for analyzing the reading skills of students with hearing impairment.
12. Identify techniques for promoting the development of reading skills for students with hearing impairment.