Presented by: Lauri Nelson, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss strategies to help parents use rich and meaningful language activities within their daily routines.

2. Identify and discuss parents’ impact on promoting their child’s curiosity and creative thinking through children’s literature.

3. Discuss the use of experience books and story boards to promote literacy development.

This presentation is most relevant to parents of children who are deaf or hard of hearing who use listening and spoken language and the professionals that serve them. All are invited to join us for this discussion.

This webinar will be recorded. Please see the website for access to this and other webinar recordings: http://www.heartolearn.org/communities/learning-together-archive.html (http://www.heartolearn.org/communities/learning-together-archive.html)

CEUs are not offered for this webinar presentation.

Presenter: Lauri Nelson, Ph.D.

Lauri Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education at Utah State University. She is the Deaf Education Division Chair and the Director of the Listening and Spoken Language Graduate Training program. Dr. Nelson has a dual background as both a Deaf Educator and a Pediatric Audiologist. She is one of the co-founders of the Hear to Learn website and has authored or co-authored over 50 publications, book chapters, or scholarly products.

Webinar start times (by time zone)

10:30 am – 11:00 am PT

11:30 am – 12:00 pm MT

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm CT

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm ET

Webinar date: October 1, 2021

Where: Adobe Connect- to register click https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8phfqLEsvVYE4Rg (https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8phfqLEsvVYE4Rg)

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Live captioning will also be provided.

There are no CEU’s offered for the webinar.

A certificate of completion is offered for participants of the live webinar broadcast.

If you have questions about this webinar, please contact Nicole Jacobson (mailto:nicole.jacobson@usu.edu). For technical assistance during the webinar, please contact Daniel Ladner (mailto:daniel.ladner@usu.edu).

This webinar is being provided by the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention, National Technical Resource Center (EHDI NTRC) housed within the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management at Utah State University. The work of the NTRC is funded in part by a cooperative agreement (U52MC04391) from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (https://mchb.hrsa.gov) (MCHB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (https://www.hrsa.gov)(HRSA) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.