Welcome to the internet site for Arlene Stredler Brown.
I encourage you to peruse the documents in this site. You will have ready access to the contributions I have made to provide quality services to infants and toddlers with hearing loss and their families. You will find information that supports interventions for infants and toddlers with all degrees and types of hearing loss. Some documents are designed to support the parents of young children who are deaf or hard of hearing. And, there is an abundant amount of information for the professionals who join me in advancing the outcomes for infants and toddlers with hearing loss.
Arlene Stredler Brown, CCC-SLP, CED
Consultant
Ms. Stredler Brown is best known for her expertise and contributions to early identification, intervention, and treatment of hearing loss in children. Her leadership in newborn screening and intervention options for infants and toddlers is particularly exceptional. Her work prioritizes measurable effective education and health care options that are respectful of the family and emphasize what is best for the child on an individual case-by-case assessment. She is active in state and federal initiatives to promote evidence-based early intervention practices.
She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech/Language Pathology and endorsement as a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing issued by the Conference on Educators of the Deaf. She is currently the Coordinator of Early Intervention and Education Programs at the Marion Downs Hearing Center. In this capacity, she provides consultation and technical assistance to programs in the United States and internationally that are working with infants and toddlers with hearing loss.
Academic Positions
She is adjunct faculty in the Department of Education and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia and is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, Colorado. She has been an Instructor in the Department of Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Lecturer and Author
Ms. Stredler Brown is the author of The FAMILY Assessment, an evaluation used with infants and toddlers with hearing loss to plan intervention and support research in the field. She has made many presentations and published frequently on topics in her field including treatment protocols for children with auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony, children with minimal hearing loss, and the importance of delivering evidence-based practice.
Education and Educational Experience
In addition to her education credentials (BA, Elementary Education, The American University, Washington, DC; graduate coursework in Education of the Hearing-Impaired, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC and University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and MA, Speech/Language Pathology, University of Denver), Ms. Stredler Brown was a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing in an urban school district for nine years.
Administrator
Until her retirement in 2006 she was the Director of Early Intervention and Education Programs at the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) directing the Colorado Home Intervention Program (CHIP) and providing technical assistance to early intervention and preschool programs serving deaf and hard of hearing children statewide.
She is a member of the Executive Board for the Marion Downs Hearing Center. She also has experience with the Colorado Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Board, the Colorado Vision Screening Project Advisory Committee, the National Early Intervention Coalition for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Families for Hands & Voices National, Colorado Families for Hands & Voices, Collaborative Early Intervention National Training e-Resource (CENTe-R), Colorado Cochlear Implant Consortium, and the Colorado Early Intervention Task Force.