The Catalyst Center, the National Center for Health Insurance and Financing for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs is hosting a webinar –
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Time: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. PT
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. ET
Register now:
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/index.html
Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade
Looking for ways to improve reading comprehension? Find recommendations for teaching foundational reading skills to students in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Each recommendation includes implementation steps and solutions for common obstacles. Download the guide at:
Link: http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/PracticeGuide.aspx?sid=21
‘Just don’t give up,’ says deaf and autistic student who graduated with honors
When Tameka Goldsmith looks at her son’s accomplishments—and she has filled plastic bins with report cards and photos of his travels, certificates and copies of the kind words teachers wrote about him on scholarship applications—she remembers what doctors said about Kyree before he ever started kindergarten.
They said he’d never speak—that, because of his autism and hearing loss, he’d never function in a regular classroom.
Link: http://www.fredericksburg.com/features/stafford/just-don-t-give-up-says-deaf-and-autistic-student/article_19663cae-ee81-59df-a43f-d960671cb2fb.html
The July Edition of Probes and Tips is Now Available: Learning Opportunities to Fit Every Schedule
We know that time management is always a challenge in busy hearing screening programs. We can’t make the days longer (summer solstice is 
past!), but in the spirit of the 4th of July, we can offer greater freedom in learning opportunities to meet your upcoming training needs.
Link: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/July-Probes---Tips----Learning-Opportunities-to-Fit-Every-Schedule.html?soid=1102782899287&aid=UUlpYoTiKDA
Register for the NCHAM Webinar on 7/21/16: Risk monitoring for delayed-onset hearing loss in young children
On Thursday, July 21st, NCHAM will be hosting the webinar “Risk Monitoring for delayed-onset hearing loss in young children” presented by Jessica Stich-Hennen.
Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/risk-monitoring.html
Hearing vest allows the deaf to feel speech
Using the sense of touch to replace the sense of hearing sounds like science fiction, but it’s very much a reality and it could be a game-changer for the profoundly deaf.
Link: http://www.wndu.com/content/news/Hearing-Vest-allowing-the-deaf-to-feel-speech-385592881.html
Move Over Zika, We Need To Talk About CMV
The news is full of the Zika virus, which is understandable as we await the outcomes of the potential spread of that virus. I hope that we are able to find a prevention strategy for this virus soon. I do find myself wondering, however, why we spend so much time talking about the Zika virus, which thus far has only impacted a handful of pregnancies in this country, yet our airwaves are silent on the topic of another virus that causes 1 in 750 American children to be born with or develop permanent problems due to the virus. That virus is CMV or Cytomegalovirus.
Every hour, one child is permanently disabled by CMV.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-redhead/move-over-zika-we-need-to_b_10562268.html
Researchers study how cochlear implants affect brain circuits
Cochlear implants have helped many people hear, but not all kids take to them well. UC Davis researchers are using EEG scans of deaf and hearing children to look at how using the implants affects the ‘balance of power’ between brain areas. Ultimately the work could lead to interventions that help kids better adapt to using cochlear implants.
Link: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoc--rsh063016.php
No handicap: Deaf swimmer on cusp of qualifying for Olympics
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – When Marcus Titus is gliding through the water, his head bobbing up and down, he doesn’t hear the roar of the crowd.
Or anything else, for that matter.
Deaf since birth, Titus swims in a quiet isolation that he believes actually gives him an edge over those in the other lanes, who can hear everything going on around them.
Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/27/no-handicap-deaf-swimmer-on-cusp-of-qualifying-for/
Hearing camp for kids helps parents as well
While their children learned about precipitation and threw bean bags in a corn hole game designed to increase language skills, the parents of about 45 hearing impaired children shared their stories with each other at a special one-day hearing rehabilitation camp.