Coaching and Empowering Caregivers of Children with Hearing Loss: an approach to foster well-being

To improve outcomes for children with hearing loss in low- and limited- resource communities, Coaching and Empowering Caregivers of Children with Hearing Loss offers a paradigm in hearing health practices that considers psychological well-being a foundation to successful caregiver interventions. Because they believe a child's communication and learning growth begins with ways to effectively coach and empower parental caregivers, Partners for A Greater Voice (PGV) shares their model in this resource to scale up essential interventions and supports. Partners for A Greater Voice is a non-profit organization which started in 2000 to support parents of children with hearing loss and practitioners of education and hearing health in developing countries. Training missions traditionally center on auditory based practices and parent education. Engaging and empowering parental caregivers is now central to PGV initiatives. This book offers insight to ways PGV fosters parent potential, responsiveness, and constructive supports in challenging and low resource environments.The author invokes a paradigm in hearing health practices and prioritizes psychological well-being as essential for empowering and engaging caregivers. The goal is to develop ways parental caregivers can thrive as leaders of their children's communication and learning.Targeted audience for this book includes: Audiologists and Technicians,Social Workers,Teachers of the Deaf,Speech Language Therapists,Parent Leaders,Community Based Rehabilitation Coordinators, and Family Centered Services engaged in any aspect of child development and hearing loss.If the goal is to positively impact caregiver engagement in a deaf or hard of hearing child's communication and learning, then this resource might be an approach worth exploring. PGV hopes their domains of well-being and coaching methodology find their way into clinical practices, communication centers, and family-centered practices around the world.

• | Author: Joanne Travers
• | Publisher: Partners for A Greater Voice
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1733823506
• | ISBN-13: 9781733823500