"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.