READ Kits: Fostering a Love of Books. Karla Giese, Med Coordinator, CHOICES for Parents

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1 READ Kits: Fostering a Love of Books Karla Giese, Med Coordinator, CHOICES for Parents

2 CHOICES for Parents CHOICES for Parents is a statewide coalition of parents and professionals ensuring that children with identified hearing loss and their families receive the necessary resources, advocacy, information, services and support. CHOICES for Parents is committed to providing unbiased information. Free Children & Hearing Loss Resource Notebook is available for families. Link to request this free Resource Notebook can be found at

3 Chicago Hearing Society, a division of Anixter Center Celebrating 100 years of providing: Interpreter Services and Accommodations Full service audiology clinic and hearing aid banks Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance Programs Youth, Parent Support and Mentoring Programs Tax, SHIP and Advocacy Programs And More!

4 READ Program

5 Going Into Schools

6 READ Kits Book Kits to foster a love of reading for babies who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deafblind

7 Funded by Oberkotter Foundation

8 Purpose of READ Kits Deaf and hard of hearing children are at an immediate disadvantage because they are unable to tap into incidental learning Collaborating with Dr. Dana Suskind, Dr. Nancy Young, and Developmental Therapists-Hearing will enable us to close a gap that deaf and hard of hearing children are constantly fighting to fill With the support of Developmental Therapists- Hearing, provide families with strategies to encourage a love of books and foster literacy from the start

9 Key Goals To make certain that with significant parent involvement, deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind children are engaged in services that enable them to begin developing listening and spoken language skills as early as possible Providing parents the learning opportunities and tools (reading kits) needed to engage, relate and build on vocabulary that is part of the storytelling process Providing parents with successful strategies to create language rich, interactive memories with their infants and toddlers Give children the communication skills needed to begin school on par with their hearing peers

10 Three Year Plan YEAR 1 Develop Educational Video Create READ Kits Collaborate with area professionals to leverage READ Kits through established channels Develop outreach and marketing plans to roll out locally, regionally & nationally YEARS 2 and 3 Implement the program to target audience Create & distribute more kits Promote Project READ Seek sustainable funding beyond the 3 year grant

11 READ Kit Components Book Manipulatives Suggested Activities Sheet DVD Video Fostering a Love of Books: Reading to Your Child Who is Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or DeafBlind Pre & Post Surveys Return Mailing (in partnership with Illinois Service Resource Center)

12 Instructions for READ Kits Complete the pre-survey View the video Read the book with the child and implement a suggested activity Repeat, Repeat, Repeat and Enjoy! Complete the post-survey Return all materials

13 Fostering a Love of Books: Reading to Your Child Who is Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or DeafBlind

14 Fostering a Love of Books: Reading to Your Child Who is Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or DeafBlind Introduction: youtube.com/watch?v=hlxbr0vx9jc Strategy #1: Creating a Reading Environment youtube.com/watch?v=el6dh98857u Strategy #2: Positioning Your Child youtube.com/watch?v=v_pef1l9exe Strategy #3: Engaging Your Child youtube.com/watch?v=sdemicx-nme Strategy #4: Making it Language Rich youtube.com/watch?v=b-ucl35qhkg

15 Tips for Using the READ Kit View and discuss video together during a session Complete activities together, connecting to strategies from the video Leave the READ Kits with the family for a couple weeks Encourage the family to use the Kit often Video clips can be found on YouTube Once parents return the Kit, CHOICES will send them a free book to keep

16 Moving Forward. 2 Kits are complete Mealtime and Eating the Rainbow Where s Spot 2 Kits in process of being made Transportation Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? 4 more Kits will be completed by summer BRIDGES conference

17 How Can Families Get A Kit? Kits will be housed and distributed by Illinois Service Resource Center (ISRC) CHOICES is collaborating with Early Intervention DT-H providers to get the word out to families Information will be available on our website with links to order the Kits

18 Next Steps Create Video II targeting ages 18 to 36 months Expand Kit distribution beyond pilot families Expand beyond 8 Kits Find funding to maintain this program past the 3 year grant Hands on training being provided to DT-H providers at the Summer 2016 BRIDGES conference

19 Question, Comments, Suggestions, Support a Family, Donate? Karla Giese, Coordinator, CHOICES for Parents karlag@choicesforparents.org or Karen Aguilar, Director, Chicago Hearing Society Kaguilar@Anixter.org ext. 307