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Essential Family Support for Children with Hearing Loss

Learn the importance of family support in habilitation for children with hearing loss. Explore key considerations, including parenting skills, various support types, and respecting cultural differences. Understand the roles of education, guidance, and counseling in assisting families through the stages of grief. Discover how to provide effective support and guidance to families navigating the complexities of hearing loss.

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Essential Family Support for Children with Hearing Loss

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  1. Emotions and Family Support(Not just “touchy-feely” stuff)Noel D. Matkin, Ph.D.Professor EmeritusUniversity of Arizona

  2. PREMISE COOPERATIVE, INVOLVED CARGIVERS ARE CRUCIAL TO SUCCESSFUL HABILITATION OF INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN WITH A HEARING LOSS

  3. Key Considerations: Comprehensive Family Support Program • Premise 1: Adequate Parenting Skills • Premise 2: Three Types of Support • Premise 3: Support Over Years • Premise 4: Use Various Approaches • Premise 5: Consider Non-traditional Family Structures • Premise 6: Respect Differences Across Cultures

  4. EDUCATION • 90% Two normal hearing parents • 60% First child • 40% Different culture

  5. GUIDANCE • Telling someone what you believe they should do is often mistaken for guidance • Deals with helping a family recognize what options exist for children with a hearing loss • Also entails clinician’s support of the parents as they make an educated choice – which may not be the choice the clinician would make

  6. COUNSELING • Information sharing is often mistaken for counseling. • Deals with emotions, coping and the reaction to one’s feelings about the hearing loss • Is an ongoing process during clinical work; it is not an isolated activity Schum, 1989

  7. STAGES OF GRIEF ACCEPTANCE DEPRESSION NEGOTIATION ANGER DENIAL Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

  8. TWO MODELS: GRIEVING

  9. NESTED MODEL:CLINICIAN – CLIENT INTERACTION DOMINANT CULTURE FAMILY SYSTEM INDIVIDUAL TYPE PARENT GUIDE

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