July 26th, 2017
Promoting early literacy skills is a vital component of language acquisition, particularly for children who are deaf and hard of hearing and may have limited access to language in their environment. Research-based practices that promote early literacy skills through visual techniques may provide the needed access to language and increase retention of new information via the working memory model of comprehension. In this presentation Dr. Cannon shared valuable practices and strategies to promote early literacy skills for deaf and hard of hearing children.