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Gus McHam Learning Institute
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It’s All About Listening!
The Developmental Approach to Successful Listening (DASL III)
February 12, 2010
United Way of Greater Houston
50 Waugh Drive
Houston, Texas 77007
Gayle Goldberg Stout, M.S. , CCC- A
Jill Van Ert Windle, M.A. – CCC , SLP
Certified Teacher of the Deaf
Abstract
This presentation will provide an overview of the new DASL III, which will be published by Cochlear Corporation in 2010. The presenters will encourage participation from the audience, and the seminar will be “hands-on” so that participants can begin implementing listening goals, strategies, and activities with their students immediately upon returning to their workplaces. Topics covered will be as follows: 1) Overview of the DASL III curriculum 2) Developing appropriate listening goals and meaningful listening activities 3) Coordinating listening goals and activities with classroom curriculum 4) Establishing amplification “vigilance” with students 5) Developing individualized Student Auditory Portfolios to assist students through the ARD and transition processes 6) Interacting with a panel of students who have progressed through the DASL curriculum.
Program Summary and Description
The Developmental Approach to Successful Listening (DASL) curriculum was developed by Gayle Stout and Jill Windle when they worked at The Houston School for Deaf Children, now known as The Center for Hearing and Speech. Gus McHam was a Parent Infant Advisor at the time, and the authors had the privilege of working with this remarkable teacher. Because audiological technology and cochlear implants have changed dramatically from the time that the DASL was initially developed in 1986, the DASL has changed and evolved to celebrate and accommodate these advancements. This is an exciting time to work with students who have hearing impairment, and educators can keep their expectations high!
The DASL program is a sequential, step-by-step listening program to help students develop and improve their listening skills. It is a program that focuses on the positive aspects of learning by teaching students about all of the things that they can hear, and building upon that foundation to more difficult listening tasks. The key word in the DASL program is success!
The DASL program focuses on three important and distinct areas of auditory skill development: Sound Awareness, Phonetic Listening, and Auditory Comprehension. Each section of the curriculum contains a hierarchical list of auditory subskills to allow progress in each of the three areas simultaneously. Sound Awareness deals with the child’s care and use of amplification, and awareness of sound through amplification. The Phonetic Listening section teaches students to listen carefully to phoneme and voice characteristics and how phonemes sound similar and different from each other. Listening is practiced in conjunction with articulation goals. A strong foundation in Phonetic Listening has been shown to be beneficial in developing students’ phonemic awareness skills to better prepare them for reading. The third section, Auditory Comprehension, focuses on listening as a strategy for developing expressive and receptive language skills. Listening skills are individualized and taught at the appropriate language level for the student. Listening in the presence of competing stimuli, or background noise, is included in the DASL curriculum.
This presentation will be practical, and participants will learn about informal assessment using the DASL placement test, developing listening objectives and goals for their students’ I.E.P.’s, and a multitude of activities will be shared. Strategies for coordinating listening skill development with classroom curriculum will be discussed, creating individualized Student Auditory Portfolios will be discussed, and a panel of students will share their challenges, their suggestions, and their successes with the audience.
Presenter Biography
Jill Windle received her bachelor’s degree and her master’s degree in speech/language pathology from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville She worked at The Houston School for Deaf Children for twelve years, and has worked in Katy Independent School District for the past seventeen years. She is co-author of the DASL with Gayle Stout, and has given talks and seminars about the DASL and listening skill development throughout the country. In Katy, she is an Itinerant Auditory Specialist, and attends ARD meetings throughout the district.
11 – 11:45 Developing Appropriate Listening Goals and Objectives
11:45 – 12:30 Lunch
12:30 – 1 Making Listening Meaningful, Motivating, and Fun!
1– 1:30 Coordinating Speech, Language, and Listening Skills with Classroom Curriculum
1:30 – 2 Creating Individualized Student Auditory Portfolios
2 – 2:15 Break
2:15 – 3 Student Panel
(Students who have used DASL share experiences and perspectives with audience.)
COST:
Professionals: $85
Students: $75
Parents: $65
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