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.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/supreme-court-to-decide-what-level-of-education-do-public-schools-legally-owe-to-students-with-disabilities/2017/01/10/3e8e14ca-d690-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?utm_term=.d9fac217937b
EHDI Annual Meeting Field Trip – March 1st
Have you registered for the EHDI Annual Meeting yet? Did you register to attend the field trip on March 1st to the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf and the Atlanta Area Speech School? Learn more about the field trips and register now while early registration rates still apply!
Link: http://ehdimeeting.org/Meetings.cfm?pg=pre
Study: Headphones Designed for Children May Not Be Safe for Their Ears
A consumer products website’s recent analysis of 30 children’s headphones found that nearly half of the products advertised as having volume limits actually allowed sounds to play above safe levels.
Link: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/study-headphones-designed-for-children-may-not-be-safe-for-their-ears-851963971906
Advanced Pediatric Audiology: Evaluating the Hearing of Infants and Toddlers
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 Register at the link below.
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/diagnostics_id2017.html
Critical Steps in Establishing a Teleaudiology Practice
Interested in building a teleaudiology program into your existing hearing care practice or organization? Here is some practical advice, as well as 10 items to consider in your planning.
Link: http://www.hearingreview.com/2017/01/critical-steps-establishing-teleaudiology-practice/
The January Edition of Probes and Tips is now available
Ring in the New Year by Registering for Hearing Screening Training!
Link: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/January-Probes---Tips---Ring-in-the-New-Year-by-Registering-for-Hearing-Screening-Training--.html?soid=1102782899287&aid=-Usty4m9WMk
App turns music into vibrations and visualizations for the deaf, hard of hearing
Technology and its infinite ways has helped to make life easier in the 21st century. It seems that everyday you hear of a new technology, and while most of it is “cool,” some of it has actual benefits for society.
One such technology is the app BW Dance, which creates visualizations and vibrations for the deaf or hard of hearing (HOH) to help them feel the music. According to the iTunes store description, the app turns music into visual equalizer, vibration signals, and flashing lights.
Link: https://theamericangenius.com/tech-news/bewarned-dance-deaf-hard-hearing/
Happy New Year!
Signing in HAPPY NEW YEAR in 76 Sign Languages –
Deaf Santa comes to town
Eighteen students from Waimea Elementary, Keaau Elementary and Kealakehe Elementary clad in felt antler headbands signed “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” together at the 3rd Annual Deaf Santa event at Parker Ranch Center Thursday morning.
The children are enrolled in the deaf and hard-of-hearing programs at the schools. Deaf Santa events have been held on Oahu for 25 years. Angela Nagata, a Teacher of the Deaf (TOD) for Waimea Elementary School, started the holiday event in Waimea in 2013.