The next Navigating workshop will be held on Fall of 2009.
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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 Meredith Crane at Thedeafund@aol.com

Our most recent workshop, "YES! Your child can learn to read - and read WELL!, focused on proven techniques parents can do at home to help their child become a successful reader. Special Thanks to A.G. Bell School for opening their school on October 4th, 2008 for this workshop.

Learning to read and write is one of the most important and powerful achievements in life. Parents, and other  involved adults, play a crucial role in their child’s literacy and learning development, providing   experiences and vocabulary that link their child to incidental as well as intentional information.

  • For parents, grandparents, extended family, and guardians of children from birth through 5th grade.
  • Teaches innovative techniques to help parents work with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing to develop the literacy skills necessary for their academic and personal success. Learn appropriate  activities that parents can utilize to support the development of critical reading skills such as phonemic awareness and phonics.
  • Nationally recognized presenters, Karen Roudybush, M.Ed. ~      Bringing Literacy Home, Beverly Trezek, Ph.D. ~ Visual Phonics, and Denyse Woods, M.Ed. ~ Visual Phonics help parents discover  exciting new ways to help   children recognize and remember vowel  patterns and their sounds, and to read and write with  accuracy and      fluency!
  • Unique opportunity to network with families that face similar          experiences, circumstances, and challenges.

 



** The next conference will be held in Central Ohio, the specific location will be announced shortly.

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Navigating Your Child's Future Workshop Highlights

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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