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ABCDEF….Geez!! Accelerating Early Literacy Skills in
Children with Hearing Loss
Michael Douglas, MA, CCC-SLP, LSLS, Cert AVT
Today’s Agenda Literature Review
Constructs of Pre-literacy Skills
Assessment and Instructional Principles
Evidenced-Based Instructional Methods
What do we know about Reading in Children with Hearing Loss?
Current Outcomes
(Harris and Terletsi, 2011; Marshark, Roten & Fabich, 2007)
Annual growth rate ½ grade per year 3rd or 4th Grade level
(Geers & Hayes, 2012)
Children with cochlear implants
(Geers & Hayes, 2012)
Role of Auditory Information in
Speech and Language Production
Articulatory Organization
(Tye-Murray, 2009; Tye-Murray, Spencer, & Woodworth, 1995)
(Tye-Murray, 2009; Tye-Murray, Spencer, & Woodworth, 1995)
Auditory Feedback
What happens in the event of
hearing loss?
Sound becomes filtered
If HL is not corrected, developed sounds will gradually become
more and more aberrant
Those without adequate access to sound will plateau early in life.
Human ear range 250-20K Hz
Cochlear implant range 250-8000 Hz
(Ambrose, Fey, Eisenberg, 2012) EVEN IF ITS CORRECTED….
Additional Factors
that can further impact an already diminished speech signal
• Not appropriately amplified
• Inconsistent use of the device
• Undiagnosed learning problem
• Ineffective teaching
Not appropriately amplified
Inconsistent Device Use
Listening Environment
Teacher-Child Relationship
• Not appropriately amplified
• Inconsistent use of the device
• Undiagnosed learning problem
• Ineffective teaching
Ineffective Teaching
Undiagnosed Learning Problem
Memory Personality
Fatigue
Vulnerable Home Environment
They cannot overhear their parents or other people talking
They can’t overhear others talking!
Teacher visibility
They may not receive the same formal instruction as children with typical hearing
They may not have received formal instruction
They do not receive extensive practice in using language
Not enough Practice!
Late Identified and Fit
• Not appropriately amplified
• Inconsistent use of the device
• Undiagnosed learning problem
• Ineffective teaching
What are the constructs for Pre-literacy skills in CHL?
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Phonological Awareness
What do we know about Phonological Awareness?
Children with Typical Hearing
Receptive vocabulary skills are directly related and linked to phonological awareness skills (Rvachew, 2006)
Speech perception skills are linked to improvements in phonological awareness and articulatory accuracy (Rvachew, 2006)
But, there is no direct correlation between phonological awareness and articulation skills
(Rvachew, 2006)
Maximizing spoken language development can have a large effect on later phonological awareness skills (Rvachew, 2006)
What do we know about Phonological Awareness?
Children with Hearing Loss
Profound deafness inhibits but does not preclude the development of phonological awareness (PA).
(Kyle & Harris, 2010)
PA lags behind the PA of children with normal hearing
(Ambrose, Fey, & Eisenberg, 2012)
PA can develop in the same general pattern as in children with normal hearing
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimanna, Brinton, & Goswami, 2005)
(Rvachew, 2006)
Reading
Gains
Phonological Awareness
Vocabulary is the strongest and most consistent predictor of later reading achievement in this population
(Ambrose, Fey, & Eisenberg, 2012)
Early weaknesses in grammatical skills are related to later reading difficulties
(Ambrose, Fey, & Eisenberg, 2012)
Why Is the acquisition of phonological awareness a challenge
for some children?
BAG
(Liberman & Shankweiler, 1991)
Lexical Restructuring Hypothesis
(Walley, Metsala, & Garlock, 2003)
Discuss with your shoulder partner
Is PA instruction effective for Children with Typical Hearing?
Phonological awareness training is more effective in helping children move out of the “poor ability” range in reading than working on decoding skills alone (Forman, Francis, Fletcher, Schatschneider, 1998)
Training preschool children in phonological awareness skills before
beginning to read has been proven to be effective
(Lundberg, Frost & Peterson, 1988, Schuele & Boudreau, 2008)
Is PA intervention effective for Children with Hearing Loss?
(Smith and Wang, 2010)
(Miller, Lederberg and Easterbrooks, 2013; Werfel and Schuele, 2014)
(Miller, Lederberg and Easterbrooks, 2013; Werfel and Schuele, 2014)
Consider lessons learned
Continue 30-35 min Sessions 2-3/week
Longer term? Daily 10-15 minute sessions Entire school year?
<10 min. lessons
Daily Entire school
Year?
Fatigue In Preschool Children
/t/ /d/
/s/ /z/
(Werfel and Schuele, 2014)
Transferability, Intensity, Modifications
(Werfel, Douglas, & Ackal, 2014)
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(Werfel, Douglas, & Ackal, 2014)
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Alphabetic Knowledge
Is intervention for alphabet knowledge effective? Children with Typical Hearing
Is intervention for alphabet knowledge effective? Children with Hearing Loss
(Bergeron, Lederberg, Easterbrooks, Miller & Connor, 2009)
Semantic-Association Strategy
*
*
*
Werfel, Douglas, & Ackal, 2014
Daily Chant Approach
Letter name
Sessions 1-5 Weeks 1-9
26
23
0
3
(Chatham & Douglas, 2014)
Contrasting Features Approach
Contrasting Features
Sessions 1-5 Weeks 1-9
20
3
(Chatham & Douglas, 2014)
Poor attendance
All three
Got something right
In Summary
Phonological Awareness
Reading Gains
Laying the Foundation
Provide all babies and children emerging and pre literacy experiences
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
World/Life Experiences
Schickedanz, (1999). Much more than the ABCs: The early stages of reading and writing. Washington, DC:
NAEYC.
BrainWonders & Sharing Books with Babies www.zerotothree.org/BrainWonders
What does emerging literacy development
look like?
Observable Behaviors
(Schickedanz, 1999)
Book Handling Behaviors
Looking and Recognizing
Picture Story and Comprehension
Story “Reading” Behaviors
Summary
Early literacy development refers to the interactions that young children have with such literacy materials as books, paper, and crayons,
and with the adults in their lives.
These experiences are the building blocks for language, reading and writing development.
Phonological Awareness Assessment
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
DON’T ASSESS: Provide all children with phonological awareness experiences as part of preschool and kindergarten curriculum. ASSESS only after instruction to determine the need for further instruction/intervention
Assess with Intention
Make a link from your question to the assessment
Assess with Intention
Make sure the test expectations match the expectations of the classroom
Assessments for Baseline Data
Assessment Instruments
to Identify Children with Delays/Deficits
Assessment to Determine Potential for Change
Dynamic Assessment
Assess to Evaluate Weekly Progress Progress Monitoring
What is it?
A valid and efficient assessment procedure for gauging the effectiveness of instruction and/or
curriculum
National Research Center on Learning Disabilities
Why do it?
Think-Pair-Share
How do you do it?
Shoulder Partner
Assessment to Determine Annual Progress
PALS-PreK
PALS-K
Teaching Children with Hearing Loss:
Learning and Instructional
Principles
Quick Review
Handout
Principles
Instructional Principles
Handout
Teach, don’t test! • Provide the amount of support that makes the child
successful – they must know EXACTLY what to do
• Model a think-aloud strategy.
• Begin with maximal support, decrease support as the child gains ability
• Child always ends with success
Scaffolding
Emerging
Developing
Mastery
How we teach is more important than what we teach
Individual Turns, Group Turns
• In group instruction, every child should benefit from every turn
• Make responding and learning the focal point of each turn
• Engage all children in all turns
Pay attention to errors!
• Child’s errors provide the indication of his or her skill and learning
• Anticipate errors and formulate teaching strategies to respond to errors
• Log children’s errors. Over time, build a bank of response strategies
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
Meaningful Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Pre-literacy learning for children with hearing loss
requires maximal
implicit instruction and
explicit intervention
Implicit Instruction
What is it?
Indirect instruction procedures that exploits print and opportunities to provide phonological
and/or phonemic awareness input
Why Provide Implicit Instruction?
Emergence of phonological awareness comes in preschool years from interactions in a literate environment.
Why Provide Implicit Instruction?
There is evidence that there may be a developmental period when phonological
awareness abilities are responsive to environmental inputs
Implicit Instruction
Create a literacy–rich classroom environment
Implicit Instruction
Display students’ written work on the wall
Implicit Instruction
Use shared book readings while making reference to print
concepts and alphabetic properties
Implicit Instruction
THINK OUT LOUD
Read alphabet books to the children as you talk through how you segment and isolate sounds and words
Implicit Instruction
Teach parents strategies to use during their day during meal times, book reads, car rides, etc.
Final Thoughts
Implicit Instruction is Important!
PA in children with CIs will develop faster depending on
– Frequency of quality parental episodes
– Experience with literacy materials
– Quality of preschool literacy experiences
(Dickenson, McCabe, Chiarelli, & Wolf, 2004)
Explicit Intervention
WAIT Instruction Intervention
Why do I need to train phonological awareness explicitly?
As humans, we are not programmed for phonological awareness
What is automatic for us in phonological awareness does not come easy for children with
hearing loss
Explicit Intervention
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
Meaningful Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Planning Top-Down Approach
Determine Targets from Assessments
e.g. Audition Speech and Language
Align with Standards: e.g. Reading and Life Science
Develop your line of inquiry
e.g. How can one investigate the soil?
Vocabulary Syntax Pre/Reading Alphabet
Knowledge Experience
(Carrera-Carillo & Smith, 2006; Moog & Stein, 2008)
Learning Activities – Tiered/Bottom-Up
Spontaneous Production of Targets
Real Talking
Conversational Language Activities
Show and Tell, Language Experiences, Stories, Science and Social Studies
Vocabulary Syntax Alphabet
Knowledge Phonological Awareness
Formal
Informal
(Gillam, Gillam & Reece, 2012; Faulk, 2012; Pullen, Tuckwiller, Konold, Maynard & Coyne, 2010)
Contextualizing Intervention
Vocabulary
Syntax
Experiences
Implicit PA Instruction
Explicit PA Instruction
(Gilliam, Gilliam & Reece, 2012)
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Vocabulary
What do we know about vocabulary and hearing loss?
The Problem
Data from Nott et al., 2009
What do you have to do to learn a new word?
Zax
Connection
Phonological Representation
Integration
(e.g., Capone Singleton, 2012; Collins & Loftus, 1978; Nelson & Nelson, 1990; McGregor et al., 2002)
Intervention Implications
TEACH THE LEARNING PROCESS
Connection: How can you help?
• Explicitly match a word with its meaning, particularly on first introduction
• Practice attending to known versus unknown words
• Identify unknown words during incidental teaching opportunities
Phonological Representation: How can you help?
• Give lots of examples – bring the word to life!
• Teach phonological rehearsal
• Repeat, repeat, repeat!
Integration: How can you help?
• Provide additional experience
– Linguistic
– Physical
– Contextualized into increasingly meaningful contexts
How do we teach vocabulary?
Vocabulary Instruction Methods
• Pictures
• Examples/ experiences
• Follow-in labeling
• Child-elicited labeling
• Storybook reading
• Discussion
Building Conversation: Increasingly meaningful contexts
Embedding Vocabulary into Increasingly Meaningful Contexts
Scaffold and Contextualize Intervention
Beidenstein; 2009, Nippold, Mansfield & Billow, 2007; Gillam, Gillam
& Reece, 2012; Faulk, 2012
What does intervention data say?
Does learning process-driven skills generalize for learning other words?
Lund, E., & Schuele, C. M. (2014). Effects of a word-learning training on children with cochlear implants. Journal of Deaf
Studies and Deaf Education, 19, 68-84.
Do repetition and richness really matter?
Lund, E., Douglas, W. M., & Schuele, C. M. (2015). Semantic richness and word learning in children with hearing loss developing spoken language.
1 = 2 < 3
Expressive Vocab Receptive Vocab Language NVIQ Articulation
77 75 61 71 78
1< 2 = 3
Expressive Vocab Receptive Vocab Language NVIQ Articulation
92 89 96 92 77
Would a child-led (follow-in) word-learning scenario work better for
teaching vocabulary?
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Whole Word Count
Intervention 1
Intervention 2
Untreated
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Whole Word Count
Intervention 1
Intervention 2
Untreated
(Lund &Douglas, 2016)
How do I choose words?
First 250
Words in Child’s life
Important Concepts
Words in stories and themes
Explicit Vocabulary Lesson Procedures for Young Children with Hearing Loss
1. Establishing the Words – here the teacher brings the new
word to life, draws on past experiences, then relates it to a photo
2. Speech Practice
3. Receptive Practice
4. Expressive Practice
5. Systematic Review/planned redundancy
(Brooks, Stein, Beidenstein, & Gustus; 2003; Barker, 2003; Lund, Douglas & Schuelue, 2015 )
Take Home Points
• Children with hearing loss have a particular deficit in vocabulary knowledge
• Teach the process of:
Connection, Representation and Integration!
• Direct instruction and providing explicit semantic richness are key components of intervention that improve outcomes
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Syntax
SYNTAX LESSONS
Brooks, Stein, Biedenstein & Gustus, 2003; Moog and Stein, 2008, Nippold, Mansfield, & Billow, 2007; Feng and Powers, 2005; Gray, 2007
Syntax Lessons Activities
• Toy manipulation
• Card games
• Board games
• Picture cards
• Guessing games
• Picture descriptions
• Commands
• Predictable Pattern Books
• Commercially prepared materials
• Color forms
• File folder games
• Lotto games
• Bingo
How do I teach a syntax lesson?
Setup
Receptive Practice
Expressive Practice
How do I improve phonological awareness in vocabulary and
syntax lessons?
Make it N(ice)!
(Gillon, 2005; Rvachew, 2006, Terry, 2016)
How do I choose targets?
(Schuele, 2010)
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Alphabetic Knowledge
Some things worth mentioning
Don’t have to wait to start teaching phonological awareness, children with hearing loss can learn letter sound identification even
with low vocabulary scores.
(Ambrose, Fey, & Eisenberg, 2012)
Print knowledge is a strength for children with cochlear implants: its more constrained and less
related to language
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimana, Brinton, & Goswami, 2005)
Children with cochlear implants can get age appropriate print knowledge: this bodes well for them because this highly correlates with literacy
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimana, Brinton, & Goswami, 2005)
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimanna, Brimton, & Goswami, 2005)
Orthographic knowledge can be used to bootstrap
phonemic awareness
Because….
Ortho cues help to make later judgments on the smaller units
Letter-Sound Knowledge
Alphabetic Knowledge
Goal for Preschooler’s vs. School Age
Alphabetic Knowledge Evidenced-Based Methods
Daily Chant Semantic-Association Contrasting Features
Model of Working Memory (Baddeley, 2000)
Daily Chant
(Schuele, 2008)
Daily Chant
(Schuele, 2008)
Semantic-Association Strategy
(Bergeron et al, 2009)
Contrast provides Clarity
(Chatham & Douglas, 2014, Werfel & Schuele, 2015, Werfel, Ackal & Douglas, 2016)
Distinctive Features Approach
/t/ /d/
/s/ /z/
(Anthony & Francis, 2005)
Clarity in Contrast
A M
D S
U V
T D
B P
X S
Mistake Prompting
• Acoustic Highlighting – “Listen”: (Whispering) t-t-t-t T”
• Successive Approximations – Pairing contrasting sounding letters and later
similar sounding letters • E.g. M with B then M with P then M with S later M
with N
Mistake Prompting
• Modeling and Imitation – “good try, say it like this “khhhssss” (for X)
Don’t forget recall!!
• Conversion Modeling – “Oh You thought I said “V”, I actually said “B”
Find “b-b-b B”
Pre- Literacy Constructs
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
World/Life Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Phonological Awareness
Some things worth mentioning
Don’t have to wait to start teaching phonological awareness, children with hearing
loss need exposure to the language of phonological awareness
(Ambrose, Fey, & Eisenberg, 2012)
Don’t need to over look performance gaps in CA vs. CI Age – they can still work on par with CA
peers for phonological awareness skills –
(Ambrose, Fey & Eisenberg, 2012)
Phonological Awareness emerges in the deaf child in 2 stages
– Large units of syllable and rime
– Small units of phonemes
It’s the same in children with typical hearing
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimanna, Brimton & Goswami, 2005)
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimanna, Brimton, & Goswami, 2005)
Children with cochlear implants can learn syllable and rime without the use of orthographic cues
PA develops independently from print knowledge
Speech reading skills play a significant role in later word reading ability
(Ambrose, Fey & Eisenberg, 2012)
(James, Rajput, Brown, Sirimanna, Brimton, & Goswami, 2005)
Visual strategies are helpful in increasing phonological knowledge
Explicit PA Intervention
• What skills do I need to teach?
• In what order do I need to teach?
• How do I teach it?
Skills to Teach (stepping stones)
Foundation critical to early literacy success
Words into syllables
Rhyming
Initial sounds
Final sounds
Segmenting
Blending
(Adapted from Scheule & Boudreau, 2008)
Instructional Sequence Age What Should the Child Do?
Preschool Segmentation of words into syllables Some rhyming ability Some beginning sound ability
Early Kindergarten Judge rhyming words Generate rhyming words
Middle Kindergarten Match words with same beginning then final sounds, segment initial and final sounds
Late Kindergarten Segment sounds in two and three sound words (CV, VC, CVC)
Early First Grade Segment sounds in words with blends (CCVC, CVCC)
(Schuele, 2012)
Utilize a Facilitative Organization
of Instructional Stimuli
Words into Syllables
Words into Syllables
1. Segment sentences of monosyllabic words
2. Segment two-syllable compound words
3. Segment two-syllable words
4. Segment multi-syllabic words
Utilize a Facilitative Organization of Instructional Stimuli
Stimuli
Foundation critical to early literacy success
Words into syllables
Rhyming
Initial sounds
Final sounds
Segmenting
Blending
(Adapted from Scheule & Boudreau, 2008)
Activity Sequence for Each Stimuli
1. Judging
2. Odd one out
3. Matching
4. Sorting
5. Segmenting
6. Generating Maintain this sequence so The child only has to learn one New thing at a time and spend less time on learning a new activity
(Schuele & Dayton, 2000)
Rhyming
Rhyming
• can scaffold to make them successful and if nothing else, expose them to the language of rhyming
• Start with Monosyllabic words, words in the child’s lexicon
(Schuele, 2012)
Rhyming
• Begin with words that when visibly produced, are maximally different:
– E.g. Does hat rhyme with shoe?
• Focus children on similarity of sounds and similarity of production
(Schuele, 2012)
Initial Sounds
Initial Sounds • Initial sounds before final sounds
• Words in the child’s lexicon
• Initial CV or CVC not CCVC or VC
• monosyllable words are easier than multisyllabic
• Consonants are easier than vowels
• Continuant sounds before stop sounds
• Avoid /h, r, l/
• Certain gestures are helpful
(Schuele, 2012)
Final Sounds
Final Sounds
• Words in the child’s lexicon
• VC or CVC
• Consonants are easier than vowels
• Continuant sounds before stop sounds
• Avoid /h, r, l/
• Certain gestures can be helpful
(Schuele, 2012)
Segmentation and Blending
• Continuant sounds before stop sounds
• Words in child’s lexicon, words encountered in prior lessons, monosyllabic words
• The shape of the syllable makes it easier not the number of sounds – ex. Seek vs. ski
– CV, VC, then CVC
– Must target CCVC and CVCC
(Schuele, 2012)
Other components
Successful intervention
Time Activity Teacher 1 Activity Teacher 2/TA
8:40 Vocab/Syntax AB Centers CDEFGH
9:00 Conv. Lang. Act. AB Centers CDEFGH
9:20 Vocab/Syntax CD Centers ABEFGH
9:40 Conv. Lang Act. CD Centers ABEFGH
10:00 RECESS RECESS
10:45 Phonological Awareness
AB Phonological Awareness
EF
11:00 Phonological Awareness
CD Phonological Awareness
GH
11:15 Read Aloud ABCD Read Aloud EFGH
11:30 ` LUNCH LUNCH
12:00-2:00 NAP NAP
2:15 Experience/ Chart Story
ABCD Experience/ Chart Story
EFGH
2:30 Handwriting ABCD Handwriting EFGH
2:45 Go home Go home
Internal Study on small groups HL 1 HL2 Normal
Hearing 3
Normal
Hearing 4
HL5, 6
# expressive
responses
5
26
8
5
DNR
HL 1 HL2
# expressive
responses
60
55
Large Group – 6 children 4 with deafness: 23 minute session
Small Group – 2 children both with deafness: 20 minute session, remaining 4 to Discovery Room
Accelerating Early Literacy Skills in Children with Hearing Loss
In Summary
Vocabulary
Syntax
Alphabetic Knowledge
Phonological Awareness
Meaningful Experiences
Lederberg, Schick & Spencer, 2013; Webb, Lederberg, Branum-Martin & Connor, 2015
Constructs of PA
Maximal Implicit Instruction Explicit Intervention
(Miller, Lederberg and Easterbrooks, 2013; Werfel and Schuele, 2014)
Contextualized Intervention
Vocabulary
Syntax
Experiences
Implicit PA Instruction
Explicit PA Instruction
(Gilliam, Gilliam & Reece, 2012)
Utilize a Facilitative Organization of Instructional Stimuli
Instruction is Data Driven
PALS-PreK
PALS-K
Final Thought
Student achievement and success are directly related to the teacher’s accuracy in diagnosing student skills, prescribing
appropriate teaching activities, structuring the lessons to ensure
success, giving clear direction for what is expected, and giving feedback on the
child’s responses. Moog and Stein, 2008
Moog, Stein, Biedenstein, & Gustus, 2003
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