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Wake Children's Hearing Intervention Program
What:
Program to address critical shortage of professionals with necessary training to develop spoken language in deaf children.
From:
Center for Acquisition of Spoken Language Through Listening Enrichment (CASTLE), a department of the Carolina Children's Communicative Disorders Program (CCCDP) in the Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery at UNC - Chapel Hill
Contact:
Beth Whitfield, M.Ed., Cert AVT, CASTLE Program Coordinator
Carolyn J. Brown, M.S., CCC-SLP/A, CCCDP Program Director
Purpose:
Realize the potential for children with even the most profound hearing loss to use spoken language.
How:
Train 20 professionals (15 from Wake County Public Schools and 5 from the Office of Education Services in the NC Department of Health and Human Services) with:
- A series of seven academic workshops
- A one week hands-on internship at CASTLE
- Eight on-site visits from a consultant expert in auditory learning
- Attendance (for 10) at two week summer institute at CASTLE
Outcome:
- Pre-test/post-test of ability of trainee to apply academic information to intervention
- Use of teaching behaviors ranked for mastery by CASTLE staff
- Trainee evaluation with post-training videotape for identification of teaching behaviors with patients
- Program evaluation by trainee to improve program effectiveness
Cost/Term:
$103,171 over five years.
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