16th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
February 26-28, 2017 • Atlanta, GA
2/28/2017 | 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Broadening Perspectives: A Collaboration Between Deaf, Inc. and the Moog Center for Deaf Education | Regency V
Broadening Perspectives: A Collaboration Between Deaf, Inc. and the Moog Center for Deaf Education
In Fall 2016, the Moog Center, a private oral school in St. Louis, Missouri that teaches children with hearing loss to talk, joined with DEAF, Inc., a non-profit organization that focuses on advocacy and communication access for the deaf community, to pilot a program to broaden perspectives for children with hearing loss and their families.
DEAF, Inc. & The Moog Center recognize that choices regarding methodology of deaf education can be divisive and there is a need to collaborate with parents and families along with their children to understand that this does not have to be the case. Through the creation of safe spaces for dialogue, parents have provided feedback indicating that there is a strong interest in understanding the possible contribution of sign language and the deaf community as a part of social identity development in the deaf child’s future as a tool to develop language and social identity.
Together, these organizations began offering an after-school program for the school students and their parents in an effort to break down barriers and misconceptions, including sign language, and expose children and their parents to the broader deaf community. The children engage in a variety of activities that are jointly supervised by a staff member of the Moog Center and a young deaf adult who is fluent in spoken language and sign language. The parent program is parent-driven and includes topics and activities suggested and requested by the parents who participate.
This presentation will describe for the participants, through lecture and discussion, the collaborative program in which the Moog Center and DEAF, Inc. have engaged. Children’s activities and parent topics and activities to date will be presented, reviewed, and informally analyzed. Parent participant perspective will be provided, as well.
- 1. At the end of this session, participants will be able to list at least three activities for helping parents understand the perspective of the deaf community.
- 2. At the end of this session, participants will be able to describe questions and/or misconceptions parents of deaf children who are learning to use spoken language may have regarding the use of sign language in the classroom as an accommodation for accessing the general education curriculum.
- 3. At the end of this session, participants will be able to state the challenges of raising a child with hearing loss in a bilingual home.
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Presenters/Authors
Judy Schlesinger
(), The Moog Center for Deaf Education, jschlesinger@moogcenter.org;
Judy has been in the field of deaf education for more than 25 year. She has worked as a supervisor of other teachers, has extensive experience working with student teachers, has lectured for graduate courses, and is an experienced teacher in the field of Early Intervention. In addition to teaching in the Family School program at the Moog Center where she provides direct service to children, helping them to develop spoken language skills, Judy has also taught in the preschool and in the primary department working to enhance the students' academic skills. She works with families, helping parents develop strategies and techniques for teaching their children with hearing loss to talk. Judy participates in the Moog Center for Deaf Education Teleschool program and provides services to families via the internet. Judy has extensive experience serving children who are deaf or hard of hearing who present with secondary complicating factors.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Thomas Horejes
(), Gallaudet University, thomas.horejes@gallaudet.edu;
Dr. Thomas Horejes received his PhD in Justice Studies at Arizona State University and is currently Gallaudet University’s Associate Provost of Student Success & Academic Quality. Prior to his position at Gallaudet, he was former Executive Director of DEAF, Inc.— based in St. Louis—that provides advocacy and interpreting services to the deaf/hard of hearing community. During his role, he collaborated with Moog Center for the Deaf on a successful program to empower parents to understand language choices for their child. He has numerous publications, including a book entitled, Social Constructions of Deafness: Examining Deaf Languacultures in Education. He is also former professor of sociology at Gallaudet University.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exist.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.