2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/05/2019 | 2:20 PM - 2:45 PM | Optimizing Outcomes for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A New Tool You Should Use | Malpensa
Optimizing Outcomes for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: A New Tool You Should Use
Deaf and hard of hearing children constitute one percent of students served through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and one out of a thousand in the general education population. They are diverse in many ways: hearing level, age of identification, quality of previous educational services, presence of an additional disability, level of parental involvement, ways in which they communicate, and more. Education systems are responsible for providing them an education that is equal to that received by other students. But many education programs do not have the expertise or qualified personnel to be successful.
Optimizing Outcomes for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing: Educational Service Guidelines is a recently published book (National Association of State Directors of Special Education, 2018) that details the needs of deaf and hard of hearing students, the steps schools and programs must take in order to serve them well, and available resources to support those efforts. Importantly, it includes an implementation tool that programs can use to assess their strengths and gaps, and that will help them in planning in how to close those gaps. Written by a team of experts from a broad range of backgrounds and communication approaches, this book is a comprehensive source of information and guidance.
This presentation, by the co-chairs of the writing team, will outline the information in the book and provide suggestions as to how attendees can use this document to improve educational outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students in their state or community.
- Attendees will be able to identify five essential principles to optimize outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing students.
- Attendees will be able to use (if they administer a program), or explain how to use, the checklist implementation tool from the book to evaluate education programs.
- Attendees will be able to identify five sources of information designed to improve deaf education programs.
Presentation:
18878_10478BarbaraRaimondo.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference
Presenters/Authors
Cheryl DeConde Johnson
(Co-Presenter), ADEvantage consulting, cdj1951@gmail.com;
Cheryl DeConde Johnson, Ed.D., provides consulting services for educational audiology and deaf education specializing in program evaluation and development and state deaf education service delivery and accountability systems through her practice, The ADE vantage. Previously she provided technical assistance and leadership in audiology and deaf education as a state consultant with the Colorado Department of Education. Cheryl has also been employed as a school-based audiologist, an early intervention provider, and a coordinator of a public school program serving deaf and hard of hearing students. She currently holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Arizona and Salus University. Cheryl is a co-founder and member of the Board of Directors for Hands & Voices. Cheryl has many publications including co-author of the Educational Audiology Handbook, 3rd Ed., and provides workshops and consultation worldwide.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Consulting fee for Independent contractor from Ear Foundation of Arizona.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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Financial relationship with EArFoundation of Arizona.
Nature: Honorarium.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Barbara Raimondo
(Primary Presenter), Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf, baraimondo@me.com;
Barbara Raimondo, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf (CEASD). She was associated with the American Society for Deaf Children for 12 years, first as a board member and later as a staff member. She also has worked as a staff attorney at the National Association of the Deaf. She has been a board member and board president at the Maryland School for the Deaf. She received her law degree from George Mason University. She and her husband are the parents of two deaf adults.
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AAA DISCLOSURE:
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