

DEAF & HARD-OF-HEARING
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HOT OFF THE PRESS!! The National Agenda:
Moving Forward on Achieving Educational Equality for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
DPI WORKSHOPS
DPI and OES Present
PEPNet's eFolio: Your Electronic Transition Portfolio
- January 16 at ENCSD, Wilson NC (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
- January 23 at NCSD, Morganton, NC (9:00 am - 4:00 pm)
EPNet's eFolio's is a free, web-based transition tool especially designed for deaf and hard of hearing students. Participants will learn the benefits of using portfolios for transition planning and become familiar with the basic features and functions of eFolio.
Empower students to organize and manage academic, career, and independent living skills and goals in a web-based portfolio. Unlike a one-dimensional paper document, an eFolio can "come alive" and provide a "rich" display, including documents, images, audio, video, and Internet links. Students can update and add to their website as their individual transition plan develops and grows. PEPNet eFolio is a free tool for deaf or hard of hearing students (ages 12 and above). It requires no HTML or technical skills and no software installation. This "hands-on" presentation will help participants learn the skills needed to create a transition portfolio.
Sign up now!! Space is limited!!!
Registration Form
(doc, 217kb)
NEW LISTSERV FOR ALL EDUCATIONAL INTERPRETERS & DEAF EDUCATORS
DPI announces the establishment of two listervs. You can join this listserv for either Educational Interpreters and Transliterators or Deaf Educators and Professional working with children with hearing loss by following the directions below.
- Send an email to join-interpreter@lists.dpi.state.nc.us (Educational Interpreters and Transliterators)(and/or join-hearingeducation@lists.dpi.state.nc.us (Deaf educators and professionals) from the email you wish to receive information.
- You will receive an email from the list serve directing you to click a link for the final process. Once you click the link the process is completed.
- You will receive an email stating that you are now a member of the specific list serve.
THE JOURNAL OF DEAF STUDIES AND DEAF EDUCATION DISCUSSION GROUP
http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/
Author's Corner is pleased to announce current research in the education children who are deaf/hard of hearing. Please take advantage of this unique opportunity to dialogue with a key researcher concerning a topic that is of great importance to us all.
To participate in this unique learning opportunity:
- go to: http://www.wiki.educ.msu.edu/ and "click" on the "Join" button in the upper right hand corner.
- once you have established a logon and password, "click" on the "Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education: Author's Corner" hyperlink
- then, once you are on the JDSDE Author's Corner home page, "click" on "2. Current" in the left hand menu bar
That is it, "1 - 2 - 3" and you will be able to read and participate in a unique, interactive learning opportunity.
AUDITORY VERBAL MODULES / WORKSHOPS - FALL 2008
It's Too Late Baby, It's Too Late-Or Is It?
When: December 8-9, 2008
Location: Durham Public Schools Staff Development Center
(2107 Hillandale Road, Durham NC 27705)
Presenters: Beth Walker & Kathryn Wilson
Registration Deadline: November 14th
Participants will be introduced to information about children who are deaf or
hard of hearing who do not have the opportunity to learn spoken language during
the early years of their lives. Following exploration of possible reasons for
a late start in spoken language learning, the presenters will discuss possible
and reasonable outcomes in developing spoken language with these "late starters" – how late is really too late? The roles of professionals, the planning & implementing intervention with late starters, the possible differences in parentchild interaction when spoken language learning is begun at a "less than optimal" age will be discussed. Auditory learning capabilities for children "transitioning" from a manual approach to a spoken language approach at a later age will also
be discussed.
There is NO COST to NC personnel and OES Early Intervention Staff
- CEU's will be offered for all workshops
- All workshops are from 9 to 4
Contact Linda Fonville at lfonville@ncbegin.org
TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMS
- Barton College
(pdf, 60kb) - UNC at Greensboro
- Lenoir-Rhyne College
STATE AGENCIES
- NC DHHS Office of Educational Services
- NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
- NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services
- NC Division of Deaf and Hard of Hearing
RESOURCES
Sign Language
- Shodor Foundation Curriculum Materials
- Center for Accessible Technology in Sign
- The Deaf Resource Library
- National Association of the Deaf
- Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
- CEC Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness
Auditory/Oral
- Alexander Graham Bell Association
- Auditory Learning Center: 919.828.1218
- Auditory Verbal International
- National Cued Speech Association
- CLARKE Mainstream Center
Post-Secondary
Assistive Technology
Other Program and Resources
- Multimedia
Instruction for Students Who Are Deaf
Are you teaching a student who is deaf or communicating with deaf parents this year? Find a range of resources and strategies in this article to help you be successful. - Internet Resource Links Related to Hearing Loss
- SKI-HI Institute
- Council on Education of the Deaf
- National Deaf Education Project
- American Society for Deaf Children
- Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf
- "Golden Nuggets: A Practical Guide for the Beginning Teacher of Students
who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing"
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