Parent Guidance and Coaching in LSL Intervention

Listening & Spoken Language

Introductory

Self-Study

10hr 13min

Continuing Education

10.00 AG Bell CEUs
1.00 ASHA CEUs
1.00 AAA CEUs

Register until Dec. 30, 2026

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Course Overview
Course Outline

Course Overview

This learning experience will move beyond coaching theory and models and focus on practical and ready to implement strategies and techniques to coach parents of children with hearing loss in listening and spoken language (LSL) early intervention. It’s all about the parent coaching strategies, whether delivering face to face intervention in a program or the home or through telepractice. Through videotape excerpts and interaction, participants will examine and discuss tools and strategies designed to build highly effective parent-professional partnerships and expand the family’s abilities to promote their child’s listening and spoken language skills throughout their daily, play and social routines.

Course Timeline

30 Days

Primary Audience

LSL Professionals

Key Outcomes

Identify five steps to structure the Auditory-Verbal session to maximize parent coaching and engagement.
Define practical strengths-based coaching techniques to guide and coach families of children with hearing loss in Auditory-Verbal practice
Describe at least 5 specific parent coaching strategies to guide families to expand on existing strengths and build family capacity
Explain how parent coaching strategies can be implemented to build family capacity to maximize their child's listening and spoken language development in their daily, play, and social routines.

Course Outline

Adults Aren't Just Big Babies
2h 53m
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Learning Content
1h 30m
- Adults Aren’t Just Big Babies | 27m
- Give Me Five! Five Steps to a LSL session | 8m
- The Greeting | 9m
- Setting the Stage | 9m
- Learning and Practicing | 8m
- Reflecting, Sharing, Summarizing | 11m
- Evaluating | 8m
Live Session Recording
1h 33m
Coaching Parents to Create a LSL Life
2h 11m
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Learning Content
41m
- Introduction | 14m
- Show and Share | 5m
- Test Drive it Together | 2m
- Leading By Example | 3m
- To the Point | 5m
- Guided Experiment | 5m
- Summary | 5m
- Put it All Together | 2m
Live Session Recording
1h 30m
Coaching Parents to Create a LSL Life Part 2
1h 58m
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Learning Content
38m
- Meeting Families Where They Are in the LSL Journey | 5m
- New Commentator | 3m
- So What? | 7m
- Secret Message | 1m
- Fake Out | 2m
- Making the Connection | 4m
- Summary | 3m
- Observe and Analyze | 2m
Live Session Recording
1h 31m
#ParentPower!
3h 5m
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Learning Content
1h 35m
- Parent Guidance and Coaching: Serve and Return | 8m
- Coaching Conversation with Colleagues 1 | 24m
- Coaching Conversation with Colleagues 2 | 41m
- Building Capacity in Parents to Create a LSL Life | 22m
Live Session Recording
1h 30m

Featuring

Teresa Caraway
PhD, CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT
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Teresa H. Caraway, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT, CEO of the Oberkotter Foundation and Hearing First, supports families and professionals on the Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) journey through Awareness, Education, and Community. With more than 35 years’ experience in Auditory-Verbal practice, consulting, and presenting, Dr. Caraway is the Founding CEO of Hearing First, and served as the Founding President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director of Hearts for Hearing. She served on the Board of Auditory-Verbal International and was a founding board member of the American Cochlear Implant Alliance.

Financial Disclosures: Dr. Caraway receives compensation from Hearing First as CEO.

Non-financial Disclosures: She is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), holds Certification of Clinical Competency (CCC) from ASHA. She is a member of AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She holds Certification of Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist.

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