The next Navigating workshop on Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability will be held on March 20, 2010.
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Navigating
Your Child's
Future

"Navigating Your Child's Future" is an important series of workshops designed to:

  • ensure that parents of children with a hearing loss receive support and resources to maximize success for their children; and
  • allow parents and extended family members an opportunity to network with other families facing similar situations.

Topics for future workshops in this series include Audiology, Assistive Technology, How to Write an IEP, literacy, among others. To register, or for more information, please contact Anna Naumann at Thedeafund@aol.com

Deaf Initiatives invites you to join us on March 20, 2010 for:

Success On the Test and in the Classroom. Learn about accommodations and modifications to maximize success for your child and how to provide home support for testing readiness.

This is the second in a series of workshops based on the book, "Testing Deaf Students in an Age of Accountability" edited by Robert C. Johnson and Ross E. Mitchell.

The seminar examines Accommodations to Improve Instruction and Assessment of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. Our keynote speaker, Elizabeth J Case, authored the third chapter in this book and addresses current trends of testing and students with a hearing loss.

Accommodations to Improve Instruction for testing; participants will learn:
         differences between accommodations and modifications.
         what services your child is entitled to receive.
         how to ask for those services.

How Do I Get My Child Ready for Testing teaches tips and techniques you can do at home and will include:
         family activity suggestions for student improvement.
         interactive audience involvement.
         sample test question discussion
                (Short answer, Long answer, Multiple choice).
         internet resourses for home practice.

Interact with Experts and explore:
         direct Q & A access to Keynote, Presenter, Ohio Dept of Education, and
           other professionals.
         the consequences of not passing standardized tests.
         other parents’ struggles and successes with hearing impaired children.
           Unique opportunity to network with families that face similar
           experiences, circumstances, and challenges.


           Teachers. Earn .3 CEU’s. This workshop is limited to the first 25
           educators.


To register for this March workshop, click here.

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Navigating Your Child's Future Workshop Highlights
October 4, 2008
"YES!   Your child can learn to read - and read WELL!"

Karen Roudybush, M.Ed. ; Beverly Trezek, Ph.D ; Denyse Woods, M.Ed.

Feb. 21, 2004
"Language Development" and "Literate Thought and Deafness"
Rebecca Kanot, PhD and Peter Paul PhD

Feb. 16, 2002
Navigation Skills: Potholes, Detours, and Curves
Darlene Zangara

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"Needless to day, this was terrific! I want more! I loved the sharing in the AM - Michael Bailey was super...How will you supercede this next year?"
-Parent

"Truly a much needed experience. Meeting and talking with other parents was exceptional. We have no experience with other children having impairments."
-Parent

"This is wonderful. So informational. So nice to know that I am not alone in this endless struggle."
-Parent

"It was a terrific workshop. The keynote-amazing! I got to network, and get lots of info and resources. It was also an emotional day, but that's part of process, isn't it?"
-Parent

Key Sponsors for the 2008 workshop include:
Ohio Department of Education
Adovcates for KIDS
Crane Plastics
Contacts
Sorenson Communications
Gallaudet University

In addition to the corporate donations, we want to thank the many individuals that have generously donated to our scholarship sponsor program. Without their support, many families throughout Ohio would not be able to participate.
Click here to see complete list of sponsors and in kind donations for all our initiatives.

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