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Tips for your Toolbox 
Daily teaching and/or therapy can drain even the most creative professional! This session will connect you to professionals around the world collaboratively sharing their best ideas on how to teach and connect with children and families, both in person and virtually. Drop in and pick up some “Tips” to use immediately in your practice!
During this session, participants will:

• Recall at least three new strategies, techniques, or resources for intervention.
• Relate one new idea for therapy to use within the next two weeks.
• Explain how a demonstrated technique might be applied in their own practice.

Taking On Virtual Learning
A growing shortage of deaf and hard of hearing teachers have left many children with hearing loss in the mainstream without support from a qualified professional. Virtual education may be a unique way to provide it. This presentation will demonstrate some of the possibilities a virtual platform has to offer.
During this session, participants will:

• Identify some strategies for using a virtual platform for DHH support for children with hearing loss in the mainstream.
• Identify some resources for virtual learning when providing support for DHH students in the mainstream.

Say It Again! Books with Repeatable Lines
This presentation will discuss the importance of books with repeatable lines and give you tips on creating activities to go along with them, as well as developing listening and spoken language skills for the child.
During this session, participants will:

• Explain the importance of books with repeatable lines and how they help to facilitate listening and spoken language skills in children who are deaf and hard of hearing.
• Create effective lesson plans and activities using books with repeatable lines.

Listen With Lynn
Are you looking for activities to grow listening and spoken language skills that are fun, easy, and stress-free? You’re at the right place! Listen With Lynn resources complement early intervention, auditory-verbal therapy, school-based teacher of the deaf/hard of hearing lessons, and auditory rehabilitation. They are downloadable and available on numerous online platforms.
During this session, participants will:

• Summarize the variety of listening and spoken language activities, games, tools, and resources available to families, teens/adults, and professionals.
• Explain how to access and download Listen With Lynn™ resources available on numerous online platforms.

Containing Teletherapy: What's Inside The Box?
During teletherapy with young listeners, there are often unpredictable situations that make it difficult to coach. It’s time to get out that toolbox, laundry basket, bin, plastic egg, cereal box, or grocery bag. We can always work on listening, language, and cognition with containers! Also, remember that containers are everywhere!
During this session, participants will:

• Demonstrate two techniques for using containers in caregiver coaching teletherapy.
• Describe to a caregiver the strategy of keeping household items or toys in containers for listening and language practice.

Freely Available Resources to Support Multilingual Families
In the past decade, the listening and spoken language approach has reached further into communities and countries where languages other than English are spoken. This presentation will provide participants with access to free, quality, research-based materials in multiple languages. Digital materials including videos, downloads, and apps will be described.
During this session, participants will:

• Perform searches for blogs and websites to access materials in multiple languages.
• Identify two video series showing rehabilitation techniques.

Reduce, Reuse, Replay!
Questions about the best toys/materials for auditory-verbal therapy practice at home is a common concern from parents. This presentation will encourage therapists to collaborate with families to be inventive with household items the family is already using to transform them into easy and engaging tools for auditory and language development!
During this session, participants will:

• Expand their inventory of activities and coach families to be creative with everyday items to support auditory development.
• Consider how items the family has direct access to during routines can be used/modified to create affordable and engaging materials.

Book in Spanish on Auditory-Verbal Practice  (English Presentation)
Hearing loss is a neurological emergency, the most common disability in newborns. Through listening, the brain accesses all the sounds of speech. In this presentation, the authors will show how this book will help readers provide the best auditory-verbal practice in an integral way in Spanish.
During this session, participants will:

• Describe the importance of early identification of hearing loss and interdisciplinary work through auditory-verbal practice.
• Describe the contents of the book “Hearing Loss in Childhood: A Look from Auditory-Verbal Practice”.

Hear at Home, Herramienta Medel para Adultos/Hear at Home, MEDEL Tool for Adults
Hear at Home, MEDEL Home Training Tool for Adults with Hearing Loss, is a structured program in speech perception that helps the person with hearing loss to adjust their new hearing aid, having the benefit of offering a familiar interlocutor in practice.
During this session, participants will:

• Learn about a new way to help adult cochlear implants with the practice of receiving speech, using family and/or friends as interlocutors.
• Be able to provide family members and/or friends with learning new strategies to improve their ability to speak and communicate with people with hearing loss.

Consejos mediante un Cuento para implantación coclear/Advice through a Story for Cochlear Implants
We will present how we help children/families go through the process of receiving a cochlear implant and learning to listen through a story and dramatization. If children/families know and can anticipate what will happen to them, they will experience this process with less stress and anxiety. Story and hearing aids are manufactured by us.
During this session, participants will:

• Demonstrate how we use this tool in our speech therapy service for advice and support to parents and children who will go through this process.
• Explain how, through stories, we can accompany families through the process of cochlear implant of their child.

Presentación del libro sobre la práctica Auditiva-Verbal/Book in Spanish on Auditory-Verbal Practice (Spanish Presentation)
Hearing loss is a neurological emergency, the most common disability in newborns. Through listening, the brain accesses all the sounds of speech. In this presentation, the authors will show how this book will help readers provide the best auditory-verbal practice in an integral way in Spanish.
During this session, participants will:

• Describe the importance of early identification of hearing loss and interdisciplinary work through auditory-verbal practice.
• Describe the contents of the book “Hearing Loss in Childhood: A Look from Auditory-Verbal Practice”.