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Family Journeys: Exploring Communication Opportunities

Join Cathy Glover and Corri Saunders in this webinar to learn about the wide range of communication opportunities available for Deaf and hard of hearing children and their families, including Auditory Verbal, American Sign Language, Auditory Oral, Cued speech, Signed English, and Bilingual Bimodal. Hear real-life experiences from parents and discover the importance of language development for your child.

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Family Journeys: Exploring Communication Opportunities

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  1. Family Journeys: Exploring Communication Opportunities Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Presented by Cathy Glover & Corri Saunders

  2. Introduction • During this webinar, we will provide an overview of the wide array of communication opportunities available to Deaf and hard of hearing children and their families. • These opportunities include: Auditory Verbal, American Sign Language, Auditory Oral, Cued speech, Signed English, and Bilingual Bimodal. • This webinar will highlight parent’s individual experiences exploring each communication opportunity. The most important goal is that your child develops language!

  3. Auditory Oral • Development of listening and spoken language • Encourages consistent use of hearing assistive technology. • Encourages use of natural gestures, face to face communication, and speech reading.

  4. Auditory Oral Video

  5. American Sign Language • Development of whole and fully visual language. • Does not rely on the ability to hear. • Signs can represent words or concepts. • Unique grammar and syntax • Encourages the use of hands, body and facial expressions as well as fingerspelling.

  6. American Sign Language Video

  7. Auditory Verbal • Development of spoken language through audition (listening) only.Unisensory. • Need for a language-rich environment with families encouraging meaning listening. • Early fitting and consistent use of hearing technology is critical. • Development of listening skills without the use of visual support or speech reading.

  8. Auditory Verbal Video

  9. Bilingual Bimodal Two language using two modalities ASL and Spoken English Hearing assistive technology is encouraged for the development of spoken language. Parallel development of both languages… …independent of one another.

  10. Bilingual Bimodal Video

  11. Cued Speech • A communication system to represent the sounds of any spoken language. • Uses eight hand shapes representing consonant sounds. • And four positions representing vowels. • Cued Speech is used in conjunction with speech reading, amplification and spoken language.

  12. Cued Speech Video

  13. Signed English/Pidgin • Several signed systems are used to produce, “English on the Hands” • Encourages speaking and signing simultaneously. • Uses manual signs in English word order. • Additional ‘sign markers’ are often used to represent the verb tenses, plurals and other parts of English.

  14. Signed English Video

  15. Resources • Schwartz, S. (2007) Choices in Deafness: A Parent’s Guide to Communication Options. Woodbine House, 3rd Ed. • Seaver, L. (2013) The Book of Choice- Support for Parenting a Child Who is Deaf or Hard of Hearing. Hands and Voices., 3rd Ed. • A Parent’s Guide for Infants & Children with Hearing Loss; Maine Newborn Hearing Program, Bureau of Health, Division of Family Health; Maine Department of Health and Human Services. • Hands and Voices – www.handsandvoices.org

  16. Questions? • Cathy Glover, M.Ed. • 207-945-3581 • cathy.glover@mecdhh.org • Corri Saunders, M.E.D., M.Ed. • 207-781-6210 • corri.saunders@mecdhh.org

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