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10/09/2015  |   4:15 PM - 5:30 PM   |  Andrew Foster Auditorium

Empowering Parent Leaders in Yinchuan, China

Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, in partnership with HuaQiao and Soaring Hope Foundations, has been leading teams of U.S. audiologists and early interventionists since 2007 to share US best practices with hearing health professionals in various regions of the country. In May of 2015, the mission team consisted of 3 audiologists, 3 AuD 4th year students, 2 speech language pathologists (from Taiwan), and translators. 160 children were directly served while local teachers and audiologists were trained in audiology procedures and speech language therapies. Through a grant funded by Hear the World Foundation, this year a Hands & Voices HQ parent leader was able to join the mission for the first time. The goal was to provide local parents an opportunity to understand the critical role parent involvement, networking, empowerment and education has on the success of the child who is deaf or hard of hearing. The Joint Committee on Infant Hearing recommends the involvement of parent leaders at all phases of the early hearing detection and intervention process. Presenters will discuss the impact of the audiology and speech language team as well as the preparation by the US parent leader, the implementation of group parent sessions and a parent/professional workshop, and the follow-up with potential Chinese parent leaders. These activities can provide a model to other like missions by professionals and parent leaders to other countries.

• Learn the educational impact of the audiology and speech team efforts on local professionals in Yinchuan, China
• Understand the preparation of the parent leader prior to the mission trip to China
• Adopt techniques from the implementation of parent empowerment sessions and follow-up communications

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Candace Lindow-Davies (POC,Primary Presenter), Hands & Voices, CandaceD@lifetrack-mn.org;
Candace is the mother of a profoundly deaf adult son, and for the past 14 years, developed and coordinated services for MN Hands & Voices at Lifetrack. The program’s mission is to “build better lives for children who are deaf and hard of hearing by providing parent-to-parent support to families.” For 13 years, she has also served a parent consultant for the MN Dept. of Health’s Newborn Hearing Screening Program and is a past Chair of the MN Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Committee and also serves on the MN Dept. of Health’s Newborn Screening Advisory Committee and statewide Education Collaborative. She is the Board President of Hands & Voices HQ.