Two days before graduation at the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the 10 seniors are on their class trip to Dallas, and the elementary school is having its awards day program. The rest of the student body does what any other school does in the festive penultimate days of an academically rigorous school year: winds down. In Mrs. Peterson’s classroom, an educational film about big cats splashes across the projector screen. The captions at the bottom of the screen describe the demise of an antelope in the jaws of a cheetah.
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Link: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2016/jun/08/how-deaf-kids-learn-mississippi/
Summer Reading Booklists Can Encourage Language Development
Encourage language development by reading to your children! Check out your local library to find many of these resources.
Link: http://www.readingrockets.org/books/summer
Baby your Baby: Hearing screenings for newborns
Stephanie Browning McVicar from the Utah Department of Health talked about hearing screenings for newborns.
Link: http://kutv.com/features/health/baby-your-baby/baby-your-baby-hearing-screenings-for-newborns
Conference Celebrates Unprecedented High Literacy Rates Among Deaf Children
Top international researchers as well as visitors from around the United States, will converge at the 50th Anniversary of Cued Speech Conference, which celebrates the enormous success at increasing literacy among students who are deaf/hard of hearing since Cued Speech was invented a half century ago.
Link: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/conference-celebrates-unprecedented-high-literacy-rates-among-deaf-children-300279232.html
The June Edition of Probes and Tips is Now Available
Read more about “Documentation Do’s and Don’ts” in the latest edition.
Link: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs154/1102782899287/archive/1124867381653.html
Have you seen the Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention?
Last February NCHAM published the first issue of the Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (JEHDI) as part of our efforts to disseminate information about how to continually improve EHDI programs. The aim of the JEHDI is to promote access to evidence-based practice, standards of care, and research focused on all aspects of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention. Taking a broad systems perspective, the JEHDI focuses on newborn and early childhood hearing screening, diagnosis, family support, early intervention, the medical home, information management, financing, quality improvement and other key factors critical for an effective EHDI system.
Since the first issue of JEHDI was released NCHAM has had 1,102 different people visit the JEHDI home page. NCHAM is now gearing up for the second issue that will be released in September.
Have you had a chance to take a look at what information is being shared? Look at all of the places in the world that already are. Check it out for yourself at http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/jehdi/.
Link: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/jehdi/
New deaf education alum ready to advocate for underrepresented students
Nervousness was taking over, and the four elementary students in front of her were looking at her, expectantly. Unlike her previous teaching experiences, these kids were deaf. In that moment, she asked herself: “Can I handle this?”