The Moog Center for Deaf Education: Early Intervention Workshop
February 22-24, 2006
Thursday, February 22
8:30 Arrival and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introductions (Betsy Moog Brooks, Director of the Family School)
9:30 Teaching Activities: Getting Started - The Listen and Learn Box (Rhonda Bennight, teacher and parent educator)
10:45 Break
11:00 Hands-On Experience: Teaching the Listen and Learn Box
11:30 Overview: An Early Intervention Curriculum for Working with Parents (Betsy Moog Brooks)
My Baby and Me: A Book About Teaching Your Child to Talk
12:00 Lunch
12:45 My Baby and Me: A Book About Teaching Your Child to Talk (cont.)
1:30 Teaching Activities: Getting Started-Mr. Potato Head (Judy Schlesinger, teacher and parent educator)
2:00 Modeling and Imitation: A Teaching Technique That Works (Betsy Moog Brooks)
2:30 Break
2:45 Language Simulation with Professor Jopean
3:15 Introduction to Audiology (Roxanne Aaron, pediatric audiologist)
General Information about Hearing and Hearing Loss
Audiologists and Therapists: Teaming Together for a Critical Partnership
4:15 Today’s Questions and Conclusions (Moog Center Staff)
4:30 Time to Go
Friday, February 23
8:30 Arrival and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Teaching First Words, for Parents (Betsy Moog Brooks)
9:30 Teaching First Words, for Teachers/Therapists
10:15 Hands-On Experience: Teaching Vocabulary
10:45 Break
11:00 School Tour (Moog Center Staff)
12:00 Lunch
12:45 Teaching Words Combinations
1:30 Introduction to Cochlear Implants (Valerie Sonneveldt, pediatric audiologist)
General Information about How Cochlear Implants Work and Trouble Shooting Techniques
2:30 Break
2:45 Speech Perception (Valerie Sonneveldt)
What You Need to Know About What the Child Hears
Using the Audiogram and other Audiologic Information to Help Set Goals
3:45 Realistic Expectations for Very Young Children (Betsy Moog Brooks)
4:15 Today’s Questions and Conclusions (Moog Center Staff)
4:30 Time to Go
Saturday, February 24
8:30 Arrival and Continental Breakfast
9:00 The Family School Program at the Moog Center (Betsy Moog Brooks)
Parent Education and the Toddler Program
9:45 Teaching Activities: Speech Instruction for Very Young Children (Judy Schlesinger)
10:15Teaching Activities: Auditory Training Instruction for Very Young Children
(Laurie Preusser, teacher and parent educator)
10:45 Break
11:00 Helping Parents Help Their Children (Betsy Moog Brooks)
12:00 Lunch
12:30 Speech, Language and Auditory Expectations: Benchmarks for Children (Betsy Moog Brooks)
1:30 Working with Challenging Children (Betsy Moog Brooks)
2:15 Impact of Early Intervention: The Proof’s in the Pudding, a research study reviewed
(Jean Sachar Moog, Director of the Moog Center for Deaf Education)
3:00 Wrap Up and Time to Go