Looking for some good book options that are geared toward children who are D/HH? Check out the list below.
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Link: https://healdove.com/disabilities/The-Best-Books-for-Kids-with-Hearing-Loss
Register Now for Webinar to be Held on 2/8
Learn more about the webinar, Family to Family Health Information Centers & EHDI Programs: Engaging & Supporting Families of Children with Deafness & Hearing Loss, at the link below.
ECHOs from Boulder
On January 26-27 audiologists and Head Start representatives from 17 states met in Boulder, CO to plan technical assistance and training activities leading to the implementation of evidence based hearing screening for young children served by Early Head Start/Head Start, Part C, home visiting program or health care providers.
Discovering Deafness Through Children’s Literature
When choosing books for young children it is important to consider the reality that is presented. Does your child’s library reflect the multiculturalism of the world we live in?
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lydia-l-callis/discovering-deafness-thro_b_14329102.html
Webinar Scheduled for 1/25 POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE
PLEASE NOTE: The webinar entitled “Family Engagement Strategies from the broader MCH Community” has been cancelled for today. It will be rescheduled for a future date. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Utah’s newborn screening law works to catch infants with hearing loss, study says
University of Utah professors Albert Park and Marissa Diener are lead authors of a study showing how a Utah law has led to increased screenings of infants with hearing loss due to a congenital infection.
Link: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865671709/Utahs-newborn-screening-law-works-to-catch-infants-with-hearing-loss-study-says.html
Deaf people use their auditory cortex to process visual rhythms
Brains of the deaf seeing rhythmic lights look like others’ listening to rhythms.
Register Now!!
Registration Deadline: January 23rd, 2017
Idaho’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program and the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM) are partnering to offer a new training opportunity for audiologists. This instruction will be an advance workshop on the assessment of hearing loss in infants and toddlers. Six weeks of online preparation readings and weekly chats will prepare the student for this 3 day, onsite workshop at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Hotel.
The dates of the onsite workshop are:
March 16, 17, & 18, 2017
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at
The Coeur d’Alene Resort
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/diagnostics_id2017.html
Engaging Parents and Families to Improve Health Systems
NICHQ prides itself on working with parents and families to ensure that its initiatives lead to improvements for every patient. Learn how NICHQ engaged parents in 2016 to see what valuable partners they are when driving real change.
Link: http://www.nichq.org/blog/2016/december/top_parent_engagement_stories_2016
Supreme Court to decide: What level of education do public schools legally owe to students with disabilities?
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in a dispute over the level of education that public schools must provide to millions of children with disabilities, a case that advocates describe as the most significant special-education issue to reach the high court in three decades.