Presentation: Language and
Guest Speaker: Sharon Moore, CED, Cert AVT, NBCT
Resources Support Program
Sharon Moore discussed normal auditory development, from birth through preschool age. She discussed 4 major areas in which all hearing impaired children should be evaluated and supported:
1) Speech and articulation
2) Vocabulary (expressive and receptive)
3) Language structure (ie sentence structure, tense, etc), expressive and receptive.
4) Auditory comprehension
All of these are key areas for the development of normal language and for optimal literacy. Vocabulary is a key area which can be supported by extensive reading exposure. The vocabulary in books tends to be more complex than that that we use in everyday speech. Vocabulary should include verbs, adjectives, prepositions, nouns, etc. Expressive language should include first words by 1 year, 20-100 by 18 months, 300 by 2 years (and this should include words of all types, including prepositions, etc), 900 by 3 years, 1500 by 4 years, and 2500 by 5 years. For higher education, a vocabulary of 100,000 words is required. Sharon Moore emphasizes that you cannot read what you cannot speak; complex vocabulary and reading structure/ language are required for real reading. There area 5 key areas in teaching people to read:
1) Phonemic awareness
2) Phonics
3) Fluency
4) Vocabulary
5) Text comprehension
Many hearing impaired children who were previously managing, fall off in 4th grade because they do not know phonics. At this point, they are meant to read to learn, and therefore pick up new words as read along, and they cannot keep up with this.
1) Read 10 books/ day with your child to stimulate vocabulary
2) Even if your child can read, still read to him just above his level to continue to teach new vocabulary.
3) Do an activity, take pictures, and then put together your own books (for younger children), so that they can tell and re-tell the story. Include high frequency words. Cooking is a good thing to do this with, for example.
4) Children should be tested using STANDARDIZED TESTING in ALL of the following areas mentioned near the top of the page.
5) She and her cohorts are available to provide this testing free of charge to all children in the public system, but her services must be requested by the school (ECA director)
6) Children should have 1 hour a day of intensive language therapy for each year that they are delayed.
Parents Present:
Leslie Wolfe (and sister in law!)
Jenny Ball
Arthur & Tracy Tastet
Loretta & Matthew Slozer
Pam Bensimhon
Rhonda Shronts
Chris & Crystal Rierson
Children Present: (A big thank you to Bizi Kidz!!!!!)
Collin and Hannah Tastet
Eli and Zack Bensimhon
The Slozer quads and McKenna
Thanks to Loretta and Matthew Slozer for bringing the snacks for children and adults to the meeting. Leigh and Marty Reeves are signed up to bring snacks to the next meeting.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 25, 2007. Our speaker will be Pat Roush, AuD, from UNC Chapel Hill. It is always productive to talk to Pat! We hope that all can attend.
Pam Bensimhon, Crystal Rierson, Rhonda Shronts
Co-leaders, Triad Area HITCH-UP
