2025 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 9-11, 2025 • Pittsburgh, PA
DAVID L. LAWRENCE CONVENTION CENTER
| Centering Parents’ Voices: Putting Research into Practice to Better Support and Empower Caregivers in Early Intervention
Centering Parents’ Voices: Putting Research into Practice to Better Support and Empower Caregivers in Early Intervention
Caregiver coaching has been the standard of care for early intervention (EI) services for decades, and it continues to be an area of focus for improving the quality of services available to families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). In fact, the recently published special issue of the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Family-Centered Early Intervention Deaf /Hard of Hearing (FCEI-DHH), outlines 10 evidence-informed principles, including foundation, support, and structure principles, to guide family-centered practice (Moeller et al., 2024). These principles address the efficacy and effectiveness of EI services and can be directly applied to supporting caregivers through coaching. However, not much research has been done to examine how coaching is being implemented in EI services for families with children who are DHH. Through coaching, EI providers establish relationships, support families on their journey, and empower them as advocates for their children. In order to ensure that caregiver coaching is effective in supporting families, we need to understand their needs and priorities. This presentation outlines findings from interview research that examined caregiver coaching from the perspective of 13 caregivers participating in services at three intervention sites in the US and Canada (Noll et al., 2022). Implications and recommendations for ways EI providers can improve support for families based on their expressed needs will be shared, including ways we can create effective and positive relationships with the families and how to best empower them as advocates for their children. In this presentation, I will share the caregivers’ perspective on how to establish and maintain positive coaching relationships and align these results with the FCEI-DHH principles.
- 1. List three factors that contribute to a positive coaching relationship with caregivers
- 2. Describe how expectations play a role in the caregiver coaching relationship
- 3. Explain how EI providers can meet the changing needs of caregivers over the course of the coaching relationship
Presentation:
3545975_18062DorieNoll.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Dorie Noll
(Primary Presenter), Utah State University, dorie.noll@usu.edu;
Dr. Dorie Noll is a deaf educator and Listening and Spoken Language Specialist, Auditory-Verbal Educator (LSLS Cert. AVEd). She is an Education Specialist in Listening Spoken Language in the Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department at Utah State University. Over the past 17 years, Dr. Noll has worked with children and families as an early intervention provider and teacher at Central Institute for the Deaf, mentored graduate students and early career teachers of the deaf, presented nationally and internationally, and researched the role of caregiver coaching in early intervention services for deaf children learning to listen and speak. She has planned and implemented workshops for local teachers and healthcare professionals in Vietnam and Mongolia with the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss and is a member of AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing’s Global Matters Committee. Dr. Noll has a young adult son who is deaf and uses a cochlear implant.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment from Utah State University.
Nonfinancial -
• Has a Professional (Global Matters committee member)
relationship for Volunteer membership on advisory committee or review panels.
• Has a Personal (Parent leader)
relationship for Other volunteer activities.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Utah State University, AG Bell Association for the Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Hands & Voices.
Nature: Faculty member and Co-PI on two OSERS grants at USU, member of AG Bell Global Matters Committee, Chapter Leader for Hands & Voices.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.