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Auditory Development and Function - 2023

Introductory
| Continuing Education Credit Available
Live Session Dates

Tuesdays, Oct 24, 31, Nov 7,14
from 8-9:30 PM ET

Registration

Closed

Overview

The learning experience will provide detailed information on the hierarchies, strategies and techniques that facilitate auditory learning of spoken language by children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Learners will focus on auditory function, listening as a process and the stages of auditory skill development. Emphasis will be placed on functional assessment, planning for and monitoring each stage of auditory development integrated within the LSL intervention sessions and carried over to home and classroom environments.

Course Agenda

Featuring

Beth Walker Wooten M.Ed., C.E.D., LSLS Cert. AVT

Beth Walker Wooten, M.Ed., C.E.D., LSLS Cert. AVT, is the Coordinator for Hearing First's Professional Learning Community. Beth has been teaching and learning from children with hearing loss and their parents for over 35 years, working in schools, clinics, homes, and through tele-intervention. She is currently a practicing LSL specialist, mentor, and educational consultant in private practice, with a zeal for coaching and mentoring aspiring LSL professionals. She lives with her husband and four sons in a testosterone cloud in Alabama.

Financial Disclosures: Beth Walker Wooten receives compensation from Hearing First as a Mentor as well as Coordinator for the Professional Learning Community.

Non-financial Disclosures: She is a member of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the deaf and hard of hearing. She is also a mother of two sons with hearing loss.

Course Requirements

Learners who request CE credits but do not complete all course requirements will receive an email communication at the end of the course. No partial credit will be awarded.

Technology + Materials

To get the most from your learning you'll need:

  • a digital device such as a laptop or tablet with audio

  • a strong Internet connection with bandwidth minimum of 512 Kbps

  • to download the Adobe Connect app (more details here).

  • to check your browser settings (more details here).

Pre-Learning

Live Session

Learning Assessment

Certificate of Completion

Learning Outcomes

  • Examine similar features and milestones of auditory brain development in children who are hearing and in children who deaf/hard-of-hearing in a LSL approach. Identify strategies that promote auditory learning in typical, day to day interactions.
  • Identify components of a framework for planning auditory intervention with children who are deaf/hh in the early stages of LSL development (the Auditory Learning Guide, part 1) and concurrent behaviors in speech and language.
  • Identify components of a framework for planning auditory intervention with children who are deaf/hh in the later stages of LSL development (the Auditory Learning Guide, part 2) and concurrent behaviors in speech and language.
  • Develop lesson plans for LSL intervention including selection of appropriate auditory goals, activities, auditory strategies and carry-over ideas for home and classroom intervention.
  • Continuing Education
  • Registration
  • Access Your Course
  • Course Communications
  • Help & Support

Continuing Education

Continuing education credits are offered for this learning experience. Although there’s no cost to you as a participant to register or earn credit for this course, your full commitment to participate and engage in the learning is considered your contribution.

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CE Credits Offered:

8

AG BellCEUs

0.8

ASHA CEUs

0.8

AAACEUs

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Course Communications

Stay current with all the latest annoucements, information, and learning progress on your course’s homepage. You can also expect several emails from us during the course.

We will email you:

  • Announcements about any pre-learning or other information about the course

  • A reminder the day before a live session, when applicable

  • A course survey and information on how to claim CE credits the day after the course ends

  • In the event of course changes or cancellations

Help & Support

It’s our goal to make your learning experience both simple and straightforward so you can focus on the content and be at your best throughout your learning journey. We’re here to help, which is why we’ve compiled a list of FAQs that will make your learning experience as seamless as possible!

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Hearing First is approved by the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language to offer Continuing Education Hours for Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) certification. This program has been approved for a maximum of 8 CEUs. AG Bell Academy approval of this course is based on information shared by the approved provider. Views shared by the presenter(s) may not necessarily reflect the views of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language either in part or whole.

Logo: American Academy of Audiology - Continuing Education in Audiology

Hearing First is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.8 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy's Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.

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