Fostering Healthy Relationships with Peers

Pragmatics in Action

This session will delve into some of the challenges that children who are deaf or hard of hearing can have in inclusive educational settings and provide actionable strategies to help them develop positive relationships with their peers. Participants will learn about DHH children’s peer relationships through the lens of pragmatics. Particular attention will be given to how professionals might bolster children’s use of their social communication abilities and increase their understanding of how to build and maintain positive connections with classmates.
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Parents and teachers gathered around an IEP meeting table

Course curriculum

    1. Building Healthy Relationships with Peers for DHH Students - Guide

    2. Building Healthy Relationships with Peers for DHH Students - Transcript

    3. Building Healthy Relationships with Peers - Slides

    4. Understanding DHH Children in Inclusive Settings

    5. Social Skills Checklist

    6. Social Skills Areas

    7. Article

    1. Actionable Approaches for Professionals

    1. Identifying Key Students

    2. Bringing Topics into Team Discussions

    1. Communication Strengths and Vulnerabilities

    1. Assessing Impact of Peer Relationships

    1. Fostering Healthy Relationships with Peers: Pragmatics in Action-Quiz

    2. Course Evaluation - Fostering Healthy Relationships with Peers: Pragmatics in Action

    3. More Resources Available from Supporting Success

    4. ASHA-Directions on How to Use the ASHA Form

    5. ASHA Verification Form -Fostering Healthy Relationships with Peers: Pragmatics in Action

    6. LSLS CEU Letter -Fostering Healthy Relationships with Peers: Pragmatics in Action

    7. ISBE Professional Development Hours

    8. Completion of Approved Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) Hour(s) Certificate

    9. RID Professional Development Hours

Course Objectives

  • $19.99
  • 21 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content
  • Share with another professional at least one relevant fact about “healthy peer relationships” that the participant found interesting, which was informed by the literature described in the workshop.
  • Generate a list of 2-3 approaches one could use to bring the topic of “healthy peer relationships” to the team discussions regarding supporting children who are deaf or hard of hearing (e.g., IFSP/IEP meetings, departmental meetings, progress report meetings, meetings regarding placement or service provision).
  • Identify 1-2 students on one’s caseload/in one’s class who might benefit from particular emphasis on positive peer relationships and establish a plan to implement at least one new strategy for fostering this ability that was discussed in the workshop.

Your Instructor

Amy Szarkowski, Ph.D.

Instructor Amy Szarkowski

Dr. Szarkowski is a psychologist who brings vast experience working in clinical and educational settings with, and in support of, children who are deaf and/or who have disabilities, as well as their families. Her research interests as they pertain to children who are deaf include: exploring the role of pragmatics, understanding and supporting families raising deaf children, developing and implementing effective early intervention, and fostering social and emotional functioning. Dr. Szarkowski is motivated by “fostering joy” and helping families and professionals to emphasize the joy in their respective journeys.

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