Family-Centered Early Intervention Deaf/Hard of Hearing (FCEI-DHH): Guiding Values

Mary Pat Moeller; Amy Szarkowski; Elaine Gale; Trudy Smith; Bianca C Birdsey; Sheila T F Moodie; Gwen Carr; Arlene Stredler-Brown; Christine Yoshinaga-Itano; FCEI-DHH International Consensus Panel; Daniel Holzinger

doi:10.1093/deafed/enad038

Family-Centered Early Intervention Deaf/Hard of Hearing (FCEI-DHH): Guiding Values

J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2024 Feb 29;29(SI):SI8-SI26. doi: 10.1093/deafed/enad038.

Authors

Collaborators

FCEI-DHH International Consensus Panel:
Michele Berke, Doris Binder, Gwen Carr, Natasha Cloete, Jodee Crace, Kathryn Crowe, Frank Dauer, Janet DesGeorges, Evelien Dirks, Johannes Fellinger, Bridget Ferguson, Anita Grover, Johannes Hofer, Sonja Myhre Holten, Daniel Holzinger, Karen Hopkins, Nina Jakhelln Laugen, Diane Lillo-Martin, Lucas Magongwa, Amber Martin, Jolanta McCall, Melissa McCarthy, Teresa McDonnell, Guita Movallali, Daiva Müllegger-Treciokaite, Stephanie B Olson, Bolajoko O Olusanya, Paula Pittman, Ann Porter, Jane Russell, Snigdha Sarkar, Leeanne Seaver, Claudine Storbeck, Arlene Stredler-Brown, Nanette Thompson, Sabine Windisch, Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, Alys Young, Xuan Zheng

Affiliations

¹ Center for Childhood Deafness, Language & Learning, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Omaha, NE, United States.
² The Institute, Children's Center for Communication/Beverly School for the Deaf, Beverly, MA, United States.
³ Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States.
⁴ School of Education, Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Program, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States.
⁵ NextSense Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Global Coalition of Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (GPODHH), Durban, South Africa.
⁷ Health Sciences, School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Western University, London, ON, Canada.
⁸ Early Hearing Detection and Intervention and Family Centered Practice, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Colorado Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, Colorado Department of Human Services, Denver, CO, United States.
¹⁰ Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States.
¹¹ Institute of Neurology of Senses and Language, Hospital of St. John of God, Linz, Austria.
¹² Research Institute for Developmental Medicine, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.

PMID: 38422448
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enad038

Abstract

This article is the second of eight articles in this special issue on Family-Centered Early Intervention (FCEI) for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) and their families, or FCEI-DHH. Five foundational values that guide FCEI-DHH are described, providing an evidence-informed, conceptual context for the 10 FCEI-DHH Principles and other articles presented in this issue. These values are applicable for Early Intervention (EI) Providers and other professionals on FCEI teams, as well as for FCEI-DHH programs/services and systems. The five key values include (1) being family-centered, (2) responding to diversity, (3) involving invested parties, especially families and individuals who are DHH, (4) supporting holistic child development, and (5) ensuring fundamental human rights. These evidence-informed values are considered essential to the effective provision of FCEI-DHH supports.

MeSH terms

Child
Deafness*
Early Intervention, Educational
Hearing
Hearing Loss*
Humans
Persons With Hearing Impairments*