Early Intervention for deaf children - prevention of language deprivation

Prof. Ros Herman, PhD, MRCSLT FHEA
Professor of Child Language and Deafness in the Department of Language and Communication Science, City, University of London.

Rosalind Herman is Professor of Child Language and Deafness in the Department of Language and Communication Science, City, University of London. Her role involves teaching speech and language therapists, delivering courses in sign language assessment, offering clinical assessments for deaf individuals and conducting research. Her research interests include sign language acquisition and assessment; language impairments in sign language; literacy development and interventions for deaf and disadvantaged children, and communication interventions. A Research Associate at the Deafness, Cognition and Language research centre at University College London, she is currently co-investigator on a longitudinal study exploring predictors of reading in deaf children.

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Early intervention for deaf children – prevention of language deprivation
Abstract
Exposure to an accessible language in the first year of life is of vital importance to stimulate the language areas of the brain and lay the foundations for a deaf child’s subsequent language development. Without early language access, deaf children are at risk of language deprivation, with damaging consequences for many other areas of development. This presentation will consider recommended models of early intervention service provision with a particular focus on the support needs of parents and ways to empower parents to facilitating deaf children’s language development, whether in spoken or sign language.

Objectives:
1. To understand the importance of the first year of life in laying the foundations of communication and language development.
2. To consider how early support services can capitalise on this first year in terms of enhancing deaf children’s access to language
3. To understand the support needs of parents and their role in facilitating their child’s language development.