Back to Basics - AG Bell | Listening and Spoken Language
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Back to Basics - AG Bell | Listening and Spoken Language
Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium AVT ABCs Back to Basics ABCs of AVT Rosemary Richardson Cert. MRCSLT, LSLS Cert. AVT Sylvia Rotfleisch M.Sc.A., CCC-A, LSLS Cert. AVT ™ AUDITION BABIES COMMUNICATION ™ …but…… Why this presentation? • The lure of the new electronic toys and tablets • We know that we must be preparing for the technology of the future with all the glamour and glitz of new technology and apps - we risk losing track of the basics of AVT Because…… Why the concern? ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION Children spend too much time with screen and media exposure 1 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT RESEARCH Research shows that exposure to phonemes through audio and video do not show the learning July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Let’s talk about screen time which is evidenced when babies have exposure through human contact Under 1 year of age • On any given day, 29% of babies are watching TV and videos for an average of about 90 minutes • 23% have a television in their bedroom 1 - 2 years of age • On any given day, 64% of babies are watching TV and videos - averaging slightly over 2 hours • 36% have a television in their bedroom ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION Rapid increase in early years Preschool children 2-5 years old • Data varies and shows from 2.2 hours to as much as 4.6 hours per day 2 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Survey of Parents UK & USA • Surveymonkey.com for parents of children under 2½ years. • Asked a range of questions about their everyday activities. • 81 responses from parents of children with typical hearing and with hearing loss. July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Our survey showed How much ‘screen-time’ does your child have each day? 0-30 minutes 30mins-1 hour 1-2 hours over 2 hours 0 Research shows that screen time: • Is highest among low-income, AfricanAmerican and Latino children • Is an identified factor in childhood obesity • Negatively impacts children’s sleep • Puts older children at risk as well • Undermines learning for babies and young children Screen time can undermine learning for babies and young children • Time with screens is negatively correlated with time spent interacting with parents – which is essential for learning. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 10 20 30 40 50 Percentage of respondents 60 Screen time can undermine learning for babies and young children • Screen time for children under 3 is linked to delayed language acquisition. • Preschoolers spend less time engaged in creative play (the foundation of learning), constructive problem solving, and creativity. Screen time can undermine learning for babies and young children • Toddler screen time is associated with problems in later childhood, including lower math and school achievement, reduced physical activity, and victimization by classmates. 3 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Screen time • Research shows benefits of reduced screen time. • Parents are receiving confusing and inaccurate information about the educational benefits of screen media for young children. The American Academy of Pediatrics, The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity recommends • Discouraging any screen time for children under the age of two • Less than two hours a day of educational programming for older children Experiment 1 • Exposure to live Mandarin enabled English speaking babies to reduce the decline in speech perception from their non-native languages. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Screen time • 56% of parents of young children believe that baby videos are good for child development. • For young children, interactive books, or “e-books,” have been linked to lower levels of story understanding and may hinder aspects of emergent literacy. Kuhl, Tsao & Lui (2003) FOREIGN-LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE IN INFANCY: EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION ON PHONETIC LEARNING Experiment 2 • Demonstrated that 9 month old infants with exposure to the same level of Mandarin but via audio and video recordings did not stop the decline • Infants' speech perception scores in the audiovisual and audio groups did not differ from the scores of infants in the English control group who were not exposed to any foreign language material 4 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Key Learning • Live voice and/or social interaction matter • Increase in attention in audiovisual group vs. audio group did not result in an increase in learning AVT We must ensure that the intention of an AVT session is the parents’ auditory and communicative interaction with the child rather than the child’s interaction with the therapist or the latest “app.” ABC July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Key Learning • The results indicate that, although there is evidence that specific vocabulary items can be learned through exposure to television programs, the more complex aspects of language, such as phonetics and grammar, are not acquired from TV exposure • These results are consistent with a variety of studies on older children (preschool age) exposed to language material, both native and foreign, from children's TV shows. ABC Three key areas in AVT: • AUDITION - Our knowledge of acoustics and language to set appropriate goals. • BABIES - Our ability to integrate this into a family’s everyday life. • COMMUNICATION - Our ability to coach the parents effectively to make this happen all day, everyday at home. Moon, Lagercrantz & Kuhl (2012) Three key areas in AVT: • AUDITION - Our knowledge of acoustics and language to set appropriate goals. • BABIES - Our ability to integrate this into a family’s everyday life. LANGUAGE EXPERIENCED IN UTERO AFFECTS VOWEL PERCEPTION AFTER BIRTH • COMMUNICATION - Our ability to coach the parents effectively to make this happen all day, everyday at home. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 5 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Method Results • 40 Swedish and 40 American (English) babies were exposed to non-native phonemes 7-75 hours after birth (average 33 hours old) • Neonates sucked at a significantly higher rate to non-native phonemes than those of their own language – between Swedish & English • Between subjects design – some exposed to non-native, some exposed to native vowels • Time since birth had no effect (between 7 and 75 hours) • Controlled audio presentation • Applied in both Swedish and English (higher rate to non-native vowels) • Sucking rate on a pacifier measured Key Learning • We already know that infants can detect and discriminate vowels – studies showing heart rate changes when ‘babi’ is presented (changing vowel quality), but this shows that they can also recognize vowels – i.e. which are and aren’t familiar in the language they have been exposed to in utero Audition and Language • It’s about the brain! • What is the baby’s brain doing to learn language and how do we facilitate those skills? • AVT - diagnostic therapy & work on skills around the functional application of speech acoustics to language • Enable parents to maximize their child’s auditory brain development Key Learning • Children with a hearing loss are born without many of these abilities in place – we are playing catch-up from the start, so we need to be clear on our auditory development milestones Pattern seekers, segmentation • Recognizing name by 4½ months • At 6 months babies can remember words they hear in short phrases if the word follows their own names Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, & Rathbun (2005) ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 6 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Pattern seekers, segmentation • Name acts as a wedge and helps find patterns • At 6 months they can recognize words that come after mommy or momma (NOT Lola) which indicates top down processing with known words July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Importance of Audition "....audition is the only sense capable of appreciating all aspects of speech ....." Ling Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, & Rathbun (2005) Speech Acoustics Essential Principles ©RoIleisch ACOUSTICS ACOUSTICS SUPRASEGMENTALS VOWELS and DIPHTHONGS • Duration • Intensity • Pitch ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • First formant - F1 lower frequency • Second formant - F2 higher frequency 7 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium ©RoIleisch ©RoIleisch INFORMATION FROM VOWELS AND DIPHTHONGS • Suprasegmental information • Prosody -rhythm, rate, stress • Accents and dialects ©RoIleisch Consonants Consonants Classification of Consonants • Manner • Place • Voicing ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • Manners of Production 8 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium ©RoIleisch ©RoIleisch ©RoIleisch ©RoIleisch Consonants • Place of Production ©RoIleisch ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 9 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Consonants • Voicing ©RoIleisch Speech Acoustics Essential Principles Low frequency information is easier, more accessible • • • • • Nonsegmentals - duration, intensity,pitch Vowels - F1 and some F2 Consonant manner information - most Consonant voicing cues Nasal murmur ©RoIleisch Speech Acoustics Ling 6 Sounds Essential Principles Why we love them….. High frequency information is more difficult and less accessible • Vowels - remaining F2 • Consonant place cues • Consonants - fricative manner of production ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • • • • • • • Tells us about access with technology Quick Easy Reliable Across environments Different team members Is equipment working? 10 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Ling 6 Sounds Ling 6 Sounds Why we love them….. Where they stop….. • Is there access across all frequencies as maps change/ equipment breaks • Discrimination information – can get limited • Areas of concern • Modalities needed to teach speech/ language structures • • • • • Access, not telling us everything getting to the brain Primarily give us information on detection Not a curriculum Not intended to be the focus of therapy Some clinicians won’t move beyond Ling 6 sounds until mastery • Many more than 6 phonemes and features to address in the English language Sound Object Associations Sound Object Associations a.k.a. Learning to listen sounds a.k.a. Learning to listen sounds Why we love them….. Why we love them….. • Early “window” into speech perception – Provides information for early aspects of speech perception even before any expressive language has emerged. – Able to have a sense of child’s discrimination in a therapy setting – not a research lab • Opportunity to reinforce use of suprasegmentals and vowels – Aspects which are critical for the underlying intelligibility of speech – Good substitute for babbling when older child may not go back to that stage, missed babbling or has limited vocalizations – Easy task to teach parents for initial “home fun” Sound Object Associations Sound Object Associations a.k.a. Learning to listen sounds a.k.a. Learning to listen sounds Why we love them….. Where they stop….. • Sound Object association “proto-words” – Preliminary cognitive demonstration of a “word” ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • Not functional language • Artificially worked into therapy (not a lot of cows in Los Angeles, London) • Children get stuck at that level if not moved beyond quickly • Some clinicians won’t move beyond animal and vehicle sounds until mastery 11 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Let’s make you think Language skills • Analysis of a language milestone “S carries the greatest morphemic Pick a language structure - What age does it develop / emerge? - What auditory skill / speech feature? - Where on the audiogram? Let’s do one together! Language Development Milestones Language Skill Age emergence/ acquisition Auditory skills needed /Speech feature Frequency range on audiogram S morphemic functions PLURALS burden in the English language” (Ling) • Plurals • Possessives • Verbs: Present tense marker – he walks • Possessive pronouns – hers, his, yours Diagnostic Therapy • Look for diagnostic clues in every part of speech and every sentence of meaningful spoken language • Speech sampling in ongoing diagnostic therapy Speech Pa)erns – low frequency Missing or distorted speech patterns Analysis by frequency bands ©RoIleisch ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 12 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Speech Pa)erns – high frequency Speech Pa)erns – mid frequency ©RoIleisch ©RoIleisch Missing or distorted speech patterns by frequency range From Dr. Ling LOW MID HIGH (250-500 Hz) RANGE (1000-2000 Hz) RANGE ABOVE 2000 Hz • Weak or breathy voice • Falsetto voice • Poor Prosody • Nasalization or Denasalization • Syllable deletion • Confusions of nasals and plosives • Confusion of voiced and unvoiced consonants • Omission of unstressed morphemes • Neutralization (centralization) of vowels • Omission and/or distortion of fricatives. • Omission of final consonants • Distortion or substitution of stops Morphemes Classified by frequency bands Morphemes – low frequency ©RoIleisch ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION Morphemes – mid frequency ©RoIleisch 13 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Morphemes classified by frequency range Morphemes – high frequency LOW MID HIGH (250-500 Hz) RANGE (1000-2000 Hz) RANGE ABOVE 2000 Hz • Verbs -ing at 300 Hz • Irregular past tense • Prepositions - found all over whole frequency range usually unstressed • • • • Articles Conjunctions Pronouns Irregular past tense • Prepositions • Verbs-/t/ past tense “ed” • Verbs – [s] marker • Irregular past tense – vowels – EAT vs. ate • S morphemic functions • Prepositions ©RoIleisch ABC Bergelson & Swingley (2011) Three key areas in AVT: • AUDITION - Our knowledge of acoustics and language to set appropriate goals • BABIES - Our ability to integrate this into a family’s everyday life AT 6-9 MONTHS, HUMAN INFANTS KNOW THE MEANINGS OF MANY COMMON NOUNS • COMMUNICATION - Our ability to coach the parents effectively to make this happen all day, everyday at home. Method Historically it has been thought that babies learn language first by discriminating the sound structure of language (consonants, vowels etc.) and that learning words came later (9-15 months) when they were able to understand others’ goals and intentions, this study shows understanding in babies aged 6-9 months by preferential looking on words not targeted/worked on in a lab. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • 6-9 month old infants were presented with pictures of two contrasting objects, and parents were asked to voice the target word at the end of a sentence. ‘Look at the apple!’ Food related and body part words were tested as they are thought to be early developing words for young children. • They had different pictures of the same objects and different pairings to control for the child just fixating on certain pictures they ‘liked’ more. • Procedure allows analysis of the infants gaze behaviors which indicates comprehension of the spoken word - a modified “language guided looking” or “looking-while-listening” technique • No training involved in the procedure. 14 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Conclusion • 6-7 month old babies learn words • native language learning in the second half of the first year is not just focused on acquisition of sound structures Caskey, Stephens, Tucker & Vohr (2011) ADULT TALK IN THE NICU WITH PRETERM INFANTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES Results • Infant vocalizations present at 32 weeks, with dramatic increase between 32 and 36 weeks • Infant exposure to language as a proportion of time was small but increased significantly • Significantly more conversational turns per hour when parents were there ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Key Learning • Daily experience allowed young infants to learn ordinary words • Method controlled “normal language demands” such as generalization • Suggests that this precocious language learning helps to explain why infants with HL getting CIs before 6 months do better than those infants implanted just a few months later when assessed at 2 years (Yoshinaga-Itano C, et al 1998) Method • Sound environment of preterm infants in the NICU • Method: Used LENA to record at 32 and 36 weeks postmenstrual age (up to 8 weeks premature) • counted and analyzed vocalizations • ‘conversational turn’ if there was less than 5 seconds between adult and baby or baby and adult vocalizations Results • Infant exposure to parent language was: – a significantly stronger predictor of vocalizations at 32 weeks – a significantly stronger predictor of conversational turns at 32-36 weeks than language of other adults 15 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Results • Adult conversational words increased significantly when a parent was visiting, as did infant vocalizations at 32 weeks (not at 36 weeks). • 20% increase in turn taking for every 1000 adult words at 32 weeks • 10% increase for every 1000 word at 36 weeks Caskey, Stephens, Tucker & Vohr (2014) ADULT TALK IN THE NICU WITH PRETERM INFANTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES Method • Adult word count per hour of 36 preterm babies in the NICU at 32 and 36 weeks was compared with outcomes on the Bayley III Scales of infant and toddler development at ages 7 and 18 months. • Input for original study was recorded using the LENA to make 16 hour recordings to look at adult speech, child vocalizations and background noise. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Key Learning • PARENTS MATTER!! • Infants vocalized significantly more in the hour surrounding a feeding, and adults took more conversational turns. • Caregiver ease / baby talk – keep talking! Follow-up Study Follow-up from the Caskey et al. 2011 study to look at language and cognitive outcomes of the babies to look for links between adult talk on the NICU and outcomes at 7 and 18 months. Conclusion • Cumulative adult word count was associated with higher cognitive composite, receptive communication and language composite scores at 7 months. • Cumulative adult word count was associated with higher expressive communication scores at 18 months when adjusting for birth weight. 16 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Key Learning • Association between the number of words a preterm child hears and their language development at least over the first 18 months. • If other studies have shown that infants ‘hear’ few words from audio recordings, parents need to know just how important their input is. • Rationale for equipping parents to use ADLs as a language opportunity! July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Life is an AV experience • Everything is a language and auditory experience • Dangling carrot principle • Maximize situations – everything has a potential learning experience. • Don’t just talk about teachable moments Child’s Day Child’s Day • Children learn when they are active learners • Children learn when they are interested • Everything we do has language • Children are wonderful and beautiful • If you play with a child - then it won't be a drudgery, and they WILL learn Parent’s Role Application to the Day • NO guilt if doesn’t sit down at a “therapy” table and “work” • Enough to do and worry about – parents are always teachers • Language is more efficiently learned by abundant exposure than by structured drill which is not meaningful • If you use everything as a learning experience then you'll always be teaching the child • If you teach through the course of everyday things then you will get the repetition and language you want to use Activities of Daily Living ADL • Everything we do has language • Part of daily living – take advantage of them • Activities which are done repeatedly – Don’t know if ever could teach a child all that they need to learn in language that way • Natural, linguistically real conversations ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 17 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Activities of Daily Living ADL • You have to do them anyways! • Honest open meaningful everyday life experiences and interactions – communication not imitation July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium What do Children Learn in Routines? From www.hanen.org • How their worlds are organized – e.g. after waking up, they get dressed, brush their teeth and then have breakfast • The words that people say in relation to each routines • Social roles - such as how to start a conversation (initiate) and how to respond appropriately when the other person starts it • How to participate with others in a conversation (even before a child can talk) as an equal conversational partner Math of ADL E=mc2 E=mc2 ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION E=mc2 English equals Milk and Cookies Too! 18 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium ADL Formula • Activity (e.g. meals, snacks) A = 5 • Number of days per year N = 365 • Language repetition R = 10 A x N x R 5 x 365 X 10 = 18,250 Our survey showed: • The majority of parents spend 1-2 hours per day feeding their child. • 60% of parents sing to their children throughout the day. • 75% of children are read to between 15 minutes and an hour per day. Conclusion ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION What are children doing today? What is the child doing today? What does the child need to learn? 19 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Find a way to teach the child… Throughout the day! Play Does communication make a difference? Christakis, Zimmerman & Garrison (2007) EFFECT OF BLOCK PLAY ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND ATTENTION IN TODDLERS Method • 2 sets of blocks were distributed to parents • Along with a list of ideas for playing with these blocks alongside their children, to promote communication and joint attention ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • • • • • Illustrative ‘block play’ study Randomized control trial Middle and low income families Children between 18 -30 months old MacArthur Bates CDI was used to assess language pre-and 6 months post. Results • Significant increase in language development of the families who used blocks 20 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Key Learning July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Bergelson & Swingley (2014) • 2 possible reasons – resulted in more playtime evidenced by diary and substituted for activities not conducive to language learning – block play displaced TV time EARLY WORD COMPREHENSION IN INFANTS: REPLICATION AND EXTENSION Method As a follow-up to the 2011 study, the authors wanted to examine if babies could show understanding of routine nonnoun phrases as young as 6-9 months. Conclusion • 6-9 month olds have robust understanding of commonly occurring nouns (even with video presentation) • Understanding of non-nouns was more commonly seen at around 10 months of age. • Non-linear nature of comprehension development seen – fast acceleration in words understood at 13-14 months. • Correlation between a child’s production vocabulary and number of words understood. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION • Infants were presented with short videos depicting common nouns and verb phrases e.g. ball / juice and kiss / eat • Video was used to depict the verbs most accurately, while it was checked they could understand nouns from a video as per the 2011 experiment – they could. • Infant gaze was measured. Key Learning • Robust research demonstrating understanding of familiar objects at 6 months. • Verb comprehension develops later, perhaps because of the wider range of variations in actions that belong to the same verb. • Comprehension vocabulary is linked to production vocabulary – beware children imitating words they don’t understand. 21 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Tincoff & Juscyzk (2012) DO SIX-MONTH-OLDS LINK SOUND PATTERNS OF COMMON NOUNS TO NEW EXEMPLARS? Conclusion • No indication of abstract comprehension in 6-9 month olds. • 10-13 month olds looked significantly above chance level • 14-16 month olds showed consistently high levels of understanding. • No link between parent report of comprehension and expression of those words and results found. A Child with hearing-impairment A Child - first Hearing-impaired second ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Method • Infants were presented with videos of two contrasting scenarios e.g. all gone vs. hi, sleeping vs. wet. Parents spoke a single sentence describing one of the scenarios to their child. • Procedure allows analysis of the infants gaze behaviors which indicates comprehension of the spoken word - a modified “language guided looking” or “looking-while-listening” technique • No training involved in the procedure. Key Learning • 6-9 month olds do significantly better with concrete than abstract words. • 10-13 month olds do not show significant difference between concrete and abstract word understanding. • No significant difference in frequency estimates for concrete vs. abstract words, so must be due to word type rather than level of exposure. • Abstract words were said more often when their referent was not present (e.g. hi!) than concrete words e.g. ‘banana!’ – role of vision in word learning for very young babies. Play is a child’s work 22 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Play • Guaranteed learning experience • Children learn when they are actively involved and interested • Not a drudgery July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Percent It’s their daily experience Time spent ‘just playing’ 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 0-1 hours Conversation = thoughts + language Play is about conversations to: • Share stories • Share ideas • Retell events • Solve problems • Negotiate with others Play should stimulate conversation, not just be commenting and naming Playfulness in babies 6-12 months • Babies are reaching, grasping, holding, beginning to let go, dropping, handing things back and forth • Love repetition as ‘cause and effect’ begins to emerge • Lots of exploratory play, poking, shaking, touching, mouthing • Love anticipatory games e.g. peep bo, build and bash • Hunt for a lost object • Beginning to understand the function of objects 1-2 hours 2-3 hours 3 hours + Playfulness in babies 0-6 months • Face to face play, imitating faces • Lots of tactile play with parent, using body as a play thing • Lots of looking together and talking about things - carrying to the window and showing and talking • Lots of showing them things - especially as child learns to grasp, 5-6 months Emergence and development of symbolic play “Showing a familiar object to new adult, or a new object to a familiar adult appeared in itself to be one of the basic forms of communication for very young children. (…) Most adults are responsive to these physical gestures, which are easily interpreted as sharing. The adults predictably respond with some type of recognition by looking, smiling, reaching and often by saying Thank you or Isn’t that pretty? Thus, not only does the object serve as a vehicle for communication, but sharing objects is one of the first events in which verbal communication becomes closely linked to a specific action performed by a child in a social situation” From Play by Catherine Garvey, Fontana/Open Books, 1977. ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 23 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium 12 months 9 months Language Pretend Play • Most vocalizations are • Quasi-symbolic pre-verbal. There is no gestures where the consistent vocal function of the object pattern used to is ‘represented’ in the specify the referent action (e.g. picking up a pea from a book) • Caregiver attributes intent 12-18 months Language • More single words emerge Pretend Play • Pretend play becomes more de-centred and differentiated from the self. They begin to pretend on other people and toys e.g. they pretend to feed mother or a doll and they pretend at actions they do not do in real life e.g. drive a car, sweep up. 24-30 months Language • Simple sentences and early grammatical structures appear Pretend Play • Play sequences become more complex with evidence of advanced planning and increased symbolization in object substitutions ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION Language • First conventional word typically appears Pretend Play • First truly playful gestures appear e.g. pick up a cup, make drinking noise, smile at mother, carry on drinking. It is obvious from the affect and expression that they are pretending. The behaviour is clearly differentiated from a request for a real drink. 18-24 months Language • Emergence of two word stage Pretend Play • Beginning of simple sequence in pretend play e.g. in play with tea set and dolls, may pour tea, stir tea, drink Getting the play level right in our sessions… This is normal development, children with hearing loss often have delayed play (see Richardson & Honck 2014 presentation) We need to know the levels so that we can work developmentally. Play at the right level stimulates conversation 24 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT ABC Three key areas in AVT: • AUDITION - Our knowledge of acoustics and language to set appropriate goals • BABIES - Our ability to integrate this into a family’s everyday life • COMMUNICATION - Our ability to coach the parents effectively to make this happen all day, everyday at home. July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Principles of LSLS Auditory-Verbal Therapy (LSLS Cert. AVT™) 1. Promote early diagnosis of hearing loss in newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children, followed by immediate audiologic management and Auditory-Verbal therapy. 2. Recommend immediate assessment and use of appropriate, state-of-the-art hearing technology to obtain maximum benefits of auditory stimulation. 3. Guide and coach parents to help their child use hearing as the primary sensory modality in developing listening and spoken language. 4. Guide and coach parents to become the primary facilitators of their child's listening and spoken language development through active consistent participation in individualized Auditory-Verbal therapy. 5. Guide and coach parents to create environments that support listening for the acquisition of spoken language throughout the child's daily activities. Principles of LSLS Auditory-Verbal Therapy Principles of LSLS Auditory-Verbal Therapy (LSLS Cert. AVT™) (LSLS Cert. AVT™) 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Guide and coach parents to help their child integrate listening and spoken language into all aspects of the child's life. Guide and coach parents to use natural developmental patterns of audition, speech, language, cognition, and communication. Guide and coach parents to help their child self-monitor spoken language through listening. Administer ongoing formal and informal diagnostic assessments to develop individualized Auditory-Verbal treatment plans, to monitor progress and to evaluate the effectiveness of the plans for the child and family. Promote education in regular schools with peers who have typical hearing and with appropriate services from early childhood onwards. Coaching parents Why? • Parents have 4000 hours with their child each year! • Children learn to understand their mother’s voice quickest – (Bergelson & Swingley 2014) – children didn’t show recognition responses for common objects when it was not their mother’s voice. • 6 of the 10 AVT principles include the phrase ‘guide and coach parents’’ ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 6 of them are GUIDE AND COACH the parent (primary caregiver) Caskey, Stephens, Tucker & Vohr (2014) ADULT TALK IN THE NICU WITH PRETERM INFANTS AND DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES 25 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT Key Learning • Association between the number of words a preterm child hears and their language development at least over the first 18 months. • If other studies have shown that infants ‘hear’ few words from audio recordings, parents need to know just how important their input is. • Rationale for equipping parents to use ADLs as a language opportunity! July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium The challenge • We are constantly improving our practice with young children as the technology changes and research further informs us. Are we seeking out the same information about parents? • What about those families that don’t seem to ‘get it’? • Research into ‘adult learning’ and ‘team working’ in a range of sectors has transformed our ways of working with parents in the UK. Key themes in adult learning Learning about learning and brain training from the worlds of sport and medicine. Key themes in adult learning 1. 10,000 hours of practice makes an expert (Ericsson 1991) 2. The practice needs to be purposeful 3. Praise the process, not the outcome ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 1. 10,000 hours of practice makes an expert (Ericsson 1991) 2. The practice needs to be purposeful 3. Praise the process, not the outcome Ericsson 1991 TOWARD A GENERAL THEORY OF EXPERTISE 26 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Ericsson 10,000 Hours of Practice Creates Experts Ericsson 1991 Ericsson used violinists to examine the factors that separated someone who was ‘expert’ from others. Brain research (Fields, 2005) shows relationship between degree of myelination and hours practised in concert pianists. Method Conclusion • Divided violinists into groups according to their reported skill by their tutors and independent examiners: outstanding (would go on to be international soloists), extremely good (would play in world’s top orchestras) and the least able group (who would still go on to be excellent music teachers and have a career in music). • Examined a range of factors in their histories to look for commonalities. • Large commonality in biographical histories – started playing at similar ages, similar number of teachers and instruments played…but one significant difference. • By the age of 20, the expert group had spent 10,000 hours practising. The middle group an average of 8000 and the lowest of 6000. There was a significant different between groups. Key Learning • Practise matters! (for both parent and child) • We need to motivate parents to want to practise and to know ‘what it is going to take’ to hone their skills and their child’s. • Consider cultural attitudes: Parent on cultural differences – “Is being expected to teach your child something that is typical in your culture?” – This is what it’s going to take… ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 27 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Key themes in adult learning 1. 10,000 hours of practice makes an expert (Ericsson 1991) 2. The practice needs to be purposeful 3. Praise the process, not the outcome 2. Practise needs to be purposeful • Learning from medical students and surgeons. • Concentrated expertise APPLICATION Equip parents to practise purposefully: How many times a day do you think you could….. Key themes in adult learning 1. 10,000 hours of practice makes an expert (Ericsson 1991) 2. The practice needs to be purposeful 3. Praise the process, not the outcome Praise the process, not the outcome • Mueller & Dweck (1998) praised students for the outcome ‘You’re so clever’ vs. hard work ‘you worked really hard at that.’ Results were similar but after being given an impossible test, they were given the first test again. Those praised for effort did 30% better than previous test, those praised for outcome did 20% worse. • Praising in a specific, but appropriate way: ‘I love how you…..’ ‘did you notice how they way you….meant that he really….?’ ‘ I can see how hard you’re working to integrate that goal into everything you’re doing!’ All parents need these messages, but, how do we deliver them in a way that matches their learning styles? Insights Colour Theory Fisher 2013 First, we need to know our own! Discuss: • How do you learn? • How do you like to receive feedback? • What do you do if you make a mistake? ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 28 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium What is your profile: on a good day… What is your profile: on a bad day… COOL BLUE • Cautious • Precise • Deliberate • Questioning • Formal FIERY RED • Competitive • Demanding • Determined • Strong willed • Purposeful COOL BLUE • Stuffy • Indecisive • Suspicious • Cold • Reserved FIERY RED • Aggressive • Controlling • Driving • Overbearing • Intolerant EARTH GREEN • Caring • Encouraging • Sharing • Patient • Relaxed SUNSHINE YELLOW • Sociable • Dynamic • Demonstrative • Enthusiastic • Persuasive EARTH GREEN • Docile • Bland • Plodding • Reliant • Stubborn SUNSHINE YELLOW • Excitable • Frantic • Indiscreet • Flamboyant • Hasty How to share information/coach: How do you like to receive your feedback: COOL BLUE • In writing • Time to reflect • Precise & evidence based • Consistency of information EARTH GREEN • Sincere, supportive environment • Values honesty • Be gentle! • Focus on the emotions FIERY RED • Stick to highlights • Focus on facts, not emotions • Likes to be in charge SUNSHINE YELLOW • Compliment and praise them • Focus on positives • Be demonstrative and enthusiastic! COOL BLUE FIERY RED • Task focused & relevant info • Thorough & well structured information • Likes well prepared delivery • Likes things in writing • Direct, to the point info • Brief and precise • Results focused, outcome driven • Stick to highlights EARTH GREEN • Patient, supportive environment • Allow time • Likes to be asked for their opinion • Wants to know you care SUNSHINE YELLOW • Values friendly, sociable delivery • Two way discussion • Likes to be entertained • Fast paced Benton, van Erkom Schurink & Desson (2008) Insights Discover Evaluator ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION Researchers at the University of Westminster (London) and Insights Discovery UK tested the validity of a psychometric evaluator, that AVUK has found helpful in examining our team working with parents. Psychometric science attempts to impose objectivity on the measure of human performance and aspects of personality, any psychometric tests must meet demonstrable criteria in order to be an objective measure. 29 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Method • Aimed to measure and analyze key psychometric statistics to ascertain the accuracy of the Insights Discover Evaluator as a psychometric tool. Including: – Validity – Reliability – Normative data Key Learning • Psychometric tools can be reliable ways of analysing personality preferences and learning styles. • We therefore have an evidence based way of analysing the learning styles of our parents to best meet their needs and coach them effectively. Ways we can match learning styles Conclusion • Strong evidence of the model’s reliability was found. • The model has good predictive validity • The results compare favourable with other (Jungian) based instruments • “In summary we have strong evidence to support the four colour measures calculated from Insights Discovery model as being both reliable and valid.” The Disclaimers…. We are not trying to: box people judge them We are trying to: understand how people like to receive information and match that as best we can, knowing how we most like to give information! Ways we can match learning styles • Live coaching within the session – do they need the excitement of being involved (yellow) or time to reflect and analyze? (blue) • Communicating with families via email – short and to the point (red), full of emoticons (yellow), specific details (blue) or lots of niceties(green)? • Take home messages – do we keep them direct and brief (red) or do we add extra information about how things felt (green)? • What about goals? ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 30 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Key take home messages • We can work on our ‘diagnostic’ skills with parents learning styles as much as we do with their children! • Work out their style and have strategies to match it. • Check in – ‘how does this feel for you?’ (green) vs. ‘Is this working for you?’ (red!) AUDITION • Hearing first, last and always – Goals should always start from hearing. – Go back to hearing to figure out where you are going, where you are stuck, where you have been successful. Back to Basics ABCs AVT BABIES • What are they doing everyday….anyways? • ADL – Activities of Daily Living • Play - Play is children’s work COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION • We can work on our ‘diagnostic’ skills with parents learning styles as much as we do with their children! • Work out their style and have strategies to match it. • Check in – ‘how does this feel for you?’ (green) vs. ‘Is this working for you?’ (red!) • Honest, open, interactive • Meet the parent and the child where they are • Communication not imitation, linguistically true ©Richardson-‐Quayle & RoIleisch DO NOT DUPLICATE WITHOUT PERMISSION 31 Back to Basics: ABCs of AVT July 9, 2015 AG Bell LSL Symposium Language Development Milestones birth – 12 months Language Development Milestones birth – 12 months Language Skill Age emergence/ acquisition Auditory skills needed /Speech feature Frequency range on audiogram Language Skill learning sounds are meaningful at and from birth vocalizations learning to 6-7 months old understand first words recognizes name 4.5 months LOW fundamental freq 750 Hz LOW various speech features across the audiogram LOW various speech features across the audiogram learning to understand 6-7 month old first words nonsegmentals, vowels, consonants nonsegmentals, vowels, consonants Language Development Milestones 12 - 24 months Language Skill Age emergence/ acquisition Present progressive – 19-28 m ing Auditory skills needed /Speech feature nasal murmur Age emergence/ acquisition often – mama, dada/papa, bottle, more playing with sounds/ babbling stages Auditory skills needed /Speech feature nonsegmentals, vowels, consonants Vowels, manner 3-11 months understanding simple requests, commands, 7-12 months language of routine LOW various speech features across the audiogram MID vowels/ consonants detection 1000 Hz MID nonsegmentals 1000 Hz Language Development Milestones 24 - 36 months Frequency range on audiogram Language Skill Age emergence/ acquisition LOW 300 Hz prepositions – in, on 27-33 m Auditory skills needed /Speech feature nasal murmur regular plural –s 27-33 m S/ Z irregular past tense 25-46 m vowels regular past -ed 26-48 m manner place cue REFERENCES Frequency range on audiogram Frequency range on audiogram LOW 300 Hz HIGH frequency 4000-8000 Hz HIGH frequency 3000 Hz for discrimination HIGH frequency 1500-4000 Hz REFERENCES Benton, S., van Ekrom Schurink, C., & Desson, S. 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