Jenna Voss

Jenna Voss

Lecturer, Program Director for MA in Deaf Education, Butler University

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Lessons Learned

• Avoiding the topic (however you define it – eg adversity, harm, maltreatment, abuse, etc) doesn’t make it go-away or not happen. Professionals need to directly confront their own biases and fears in order to protect children.
• Parents/caregivers love and want to do right by their children. Professionals need to believe/know that and then respond accordingly, through family-centered intervention practices implemented across the lifespan.
• Relationships matter (Parent -child, professional-parent, and professional-professional). Our collective work must be grounded in relationships.

Resources Developed

• Rosenzweig, E. & Voss, J. (2022). Their Words, Their World: A Paradigm for Culturally Relevant Family-Centered Intervention. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_PERSP-21-00074
• Voss, J. (March 10, 2020) Putting Ourselves into the Story: Promoting Resilience for Children Who are DHH and their Families. [Invited Closing Plenary]. 19th Annual Early Hearing Detection and Identification Conference: Kansas City, Missouri.
• Voss, J., & Lenihan, S. (2020). Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Families Experiencing Adversity: The Role of the Auditory-Verbal Practitioner. In W. Estabrooks, H. M. Morrison, & K. MacIver-Lux (Eds.), Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Science, Research, and Practice. Plural Publishing. https://www.pluralpublishing.com/publications/auditory-verbal-therapy-s…;

Suggested Resources

• ChildHelp https://www.childhelp.org/
• Garner, A.& Yogman, M.. (2021). Preventing Childhood Toxic Stress: Partnering With Families and Communities to Promote Relational Health. Pediatrics, 148(2), e2021052582. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-052582
• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University https://developingchild.harvard.edu/ 

Collaborative Areas of Interest

• Personnel preparation
• Primary prevention of maltreatment through enhancement of safe, stable, nurturing relationships.
• Building caregiver capacity through family-centered intervention