WisCorps Inclusive Crew - Now Hiring!
WisCorps is currently hiring Corps Members for its Inclusive
Crew Program. Through this program, youth with and without
disablities will work together to complete conservation
projects under the guidance of an experienced adult Crew
Leader.
Application www.wiscorps.org/files/.../Inclusive%20Crew%20Application%202010.pdf
Monday, December 13, 2010
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Check out the new Deaf Education Website
I recently received an email encouraging deaf educators to visit the new Deaf Education Website.
The following email...
As you may recall, the Deaf Education Web site (http://www.deafed.net/) was created via a series of U.S. Dept. of Ed. PT3 grants, i.e., “Preparing Tomorrows Teachers to use Technology. Those grants ended in 2006. Since that time, I have been using a number of small grants to support the Web site. Unfortunately, the small grants have run out. Fortunately, the CEC Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness (DCDD) (www.dcdd.us/) elected to provide support for the Deaf Education Web site through April of 2011. This support is based on the plan to increase DCDD’s membership by increasing the visibility of the Division. Given that the Deaf Education Web site receives 300-400 “hits” a day, this sounds like a reasonable plan. Your help is requested to make DCDD’s plan a success. A success that will help ensure the ongoing availability of the Deaf Education Web site for us all.
My request
1. Please forward the attached message to your colleagues.
2. Encourage your colleagues to use the Deaf Education Web site to search for resumes, post positions and investigate our shared Deaf Education knowledge base.
3. If possible, please encourage your colleagues to consider joining Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness. A hyperlink is provided on the attached document that walks them through the membership process and benefits.
Thank you for your help in this matter. I value you, the Deaf Education Web site, the Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness, and your colleagues and the work that we are all doing to enhance Deaf Education.
Respectfully,
Harold Johnson
P.S. if you have any suggestions re. the ongoing development, use, and funding of the Deaf Education Web site, I would LIKE to hear from you.
Harold A. Johnson/Professor
Deaf Education Teacher Preparation
343A Erickson Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
The following email...
As you may recall, the Deaf Education Web site (http://www.deafed.net/) was created via a series of U.S. Dept. of Ed. PT3 grants, i.e., “Preparing Tomorrows Teachers to use Technology. Those grants ended in 2006. Since that time, I have been using a number of small grants to support the Web site. Unfortunately, the small grants have run out. Fortunately, the CEC Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness (DCDD) (www.dcdd.us/) elected to provide support for the Deaf Education Web site through April of 2011. This support is based on the plan to increase DCDD’s membership by increasing the visibility of the Division. Given that the Deaf Education Web site receives 300-400 “hits” a day, this sounds like a reasonable plan. Your help is requested to make DCDD’s plan a success. A success that will help ensure the ongoing availability of the Deaf Education Web site for us all.
My request
1. Please forward the attached message to your colleagues.
2. Encourage your colleagues to use the Deaf Education Web site to search for resumes, post positions and investigate our shared Deaf Education knowledge base.
3. If possible, please encourage your colleagues to consider joining Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness. A hyperlink is provided on the attached document that walks them through the membership process and benefits.
Thank you for your help in this matter. I value you, the Deaf Education Web site, the Division for Communicative Disabilities and Deafness, and your colleagues and the work that we are all doing to enhance Deaf Education.
Respectfully,
Harold Johnson
P.S. if you have any suggestions re. the ongoing development, use, and funding of the Deaf Education Web site, I would LIKE to hear from you.
Harold A. Johnson/Professor
Deaf Education Teacher Preparation
343A Erickson Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
WESP-DHH's Annual Professional Conference
| WESPDHH Annual Professional Conference | |
| Category: | Outreach Sponsored Events |
| Date: | March 10, 2011 |
| Where: | Madison Concourse Hotel 1 W Dayton St Madison, WI 53703 |
Keep updated at their website http://www.wesp-dhh.wi.gov/wesp/out_pc.cfm
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tips to offer the mainstream classroom Teacher about working with a child with a Cochlear Implant
Strategies are taken from the Cochlear Workshop: What Children Cochlear Implants Need at School
By Donna L. Sorkin, M.A. and Jessica Melton, Au.D.
Share Hearing Loss Basics
*Show the child's audiogram and explain it
*Help them understand the benefits and limitations of personal hearing technology
* Show the child's technology and let them handle it
*Explain why the FM is important
*Determine who is in charge of troubleshooting and develop a plan for how that will work
Ensure Proper Classroom Seating
*Close to front but visually accessible to entire room
*Seat away from noise generators (HVAC fans, hall doors)
If unilateral CI, seat so CI ear away is opposite noise sources (HVAC fans, projectors) and towards center of room
*NO Aquariums!
Don't assume the front tow is the best seat for the child. After taking the noise generators into consideration, talk to the child about the best seat for them to access speech. It is not always the front!
Speak so he can understand
*Always face forward when talking
*Stay within the child's vision
*Closer is better
*Don't "bounce" around
*Speak clearly, naturally and directly to the child
*Make sure she's looking at you when you begin speaking (have lead ins to cue the child)
*Ensure volume is appropriate
*Speak just a little slower-too slow is not natural and will make understanding harder
*View HOPE Online on Clear Speech
What if (s)he doesn't understand?
*Don't ask her directly "Did you understand that?"
*Learn to recognize "the look" that means he didn't get it
*Repeat once, then paraphrase
*Explain things a different way
*Encourage him to ask
*Use a signal or "secret sign" so she can tell you she missed something (this way the child doesn't have to raise his hand to have information always repeated, it is just between you and him)
*Write difficult (key) words on the blackboard
Other Communication Strategies
*Provide key new words/concepts to parents or team members in advance
*Use concrete materials or natural gestures to illustrate points
*Write assignments and direction on the board
*Point to the speaker
*Repeat Classmates' questions through the FM
*If you think she might have missed a comment, rephrase or restate what another child has contributed
By Donna L. Sorkin, M.A. and Jessica Melton, Au.D.
Share Hearing Loss Basics
*Show the child's audiogram and explain it
*Help them understand the benefits and limitations of personal hearing technology
* Show the child's technology and let them handle it
*Explain why the FM is important
*Determine who is in charge of troubleshooting and develop a plan for how that will work
Ensure Proper Classroom Seating
*Close to front but visually accessible to entire room
*Seat away from noise generators (HVAC fans, hall doors)
If unilateral CI, seat so CI ear away is opposite noise sources (HVAC fans, projectors) and towards center of room
*NO Aquariums!
Don't assume the front tow is the best seat for the child. After taking the noise generators into consideration, talk to the child about the best seat for them to access speech. It is not always the front!
Speak so he can understand
*Always face forward when talking
*Stay within the child's vision
*Closer is better
*Don't "bounce" around
*Speak clearly, naturally and directly to the child
*Make sure she's looking at you when you begin speaking (have lead ins to cue the child)
*Ensure volume is appropriate
*Speak just a little slower-too slow is not natural and will make understanding harder
*View HOPE Online on Clear Speech
What if (s)he doesn't understand?
*Don't ask her directly "Did you understand that?"
*Learn to recognize "the look" that means he didn't get it
*Repeat once, then paraphrase
*Explain things a different way
*Encourage him to ask
*Use a signal or "secret sign" so she can tell you she missed something (this way the child doesn't have to raise his hand to have information always repeated, it is just between you and him)
*Write difficult (key) words on the blackboard
Other Communication Strategies
*Provide key new words/concepts to parents or team members in advance
*Use concrete materials or natural gestures to illustrate points
*Write assignments and direction on the board
*Point to the speaker
*Repeat Classmates' questions through the FM
*If you think she might have missed a comment, rephrase or restate what another child has contributed
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Trouble Shooting Workshop
Sept 28th, from 4-6 PM
All three cochlear implant companies will be available for a brief troubleshooting workshop for any professional interested. The workshop will be done at the WAC across the street from the Clinic's Building. There will be more information to follow.
All three cochlear implant companies will be available for a brief troubleshooting workshop for any professional interested. The workshop will be done at the WAC across the street from the Clinic's Building. There will be more information to follow.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Did You Know? -Cochear America-Speech Sounds
http://www.cochlearamericas.com/Support/2294.asp
Designed by Nancy Caleffe-Schenck, M.Ed. CCC-A, Cert.AVT
and Dian Baker, MA, CCC-SLP, Cert AVT
Speech Sounds is a great resource to reference when focussing in on a particular speech sound. It offers teachers/SLP's a variety of ideas to help build the targets throughout the school day or therapy session.
Speech Sounds was designed to be used with younger children ages 1 through 5, but can be adapted for older children. The authors do indicate that prior to using this supplement the child should have an auditory foundation and they do list a variety of auditory activities they should be able to do prior to using it.
Speech Sounds is a way to focus on teaching speech through listening to maximixe a child's auditory potential or auditory self-monitoring of speech.
They have separated the 20 speech sounds into individual units. Creating a laudary list of child friendly words that contain the speech sound in the initial, midial and final positions. Each Speech Sounds unit incoporates; child friendly words, daily routines, activities, games and toys, songs and rhymes, a popular children's book, communication building activites for the book as well as additional books.
The entire Speech Sounds booklet can be downloaded for free off of the Cochear America's Website. Once printed it can be used as an easy resource guide for SLP's and DHH teacher's alike.
Designed by Nancy Caleffe-Schenck, M.Ed. CCC-A, Cert.AVT
and Dian Baker, MA, CCC-SLP, Cert AVT
Speech Sounds is a great resource to reference when focussing in on a particular speech sound. It offers teachers/SLP's a variety of ideas to help build the targets throughout the school day or therapy session.
Speech Sounds was designed to be used with younger children ages 1 through 5, but can be adapted for older children. The authors do indicate that prior to using this supplement the child should have an auditory foundation and they do list a variety of auditory activities they should be able to do prior to using it.
Speech Sounds is a way to focus on teaching speech through listening to maximixe a child's auditory potential or auditory self-monitoring of speech.
They have separated the 20 speech sounds into individual units. Creating a laudary list of child friendly words that contain the speech sound in the initial, midial and final positions. Each Speech Sounds unit incoporates; child friendly words, daily routines, activities, games and toys, songs and rhymes, a popular children's book, communication building activites for the book as well as additional books.
The entire Speech Sounds booklet can be downloaded for free off of the Cochear America's Website. Once printed it can be used as an easy resource guide for SLP's and DHH teacher's alike.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Did You Know?
As busy professionals, we are given resouce after resource to make our therapy better but we are let to go and explore it on our own. With the series "Did You Know?" we will highlight different areas, articles or tools located on the three cochlear implant websites. We will rotate between the three sites to show you variety of opportunities just waiting for you to use.
We encourage your feedback on the highlighted areas. We would like to hear if you liked it or not, be sure to tell us why.
We encourage your feedback on the highlighted areas. We would like to hear if you liked it or not, be sure to tell us why.
Friday, April 9, 2010
Milwaukee Walk4Hearing May 16
The Walk4Hearing™, produced by the Hearing Loss Association of America® (HLAA), is the largest walk of its kind in the country. The HLAA Walk4Hearing is held in cities nationwide with at least 5,000 people walking and raising money for programs and services for people with hearing loss and their families. Proceeds are shared between the national organization and local HLAA affiliates or Walk4Hearing Alliance Groups to benefit national and local programs. Since 2006, more than $2 million has been raised.
HLAA launched the Walk4Hearing™ to:
*increase awareness among the general public about hearing loss and the 36 million Americans who have hearing loss
*minimize the stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, cochlear implants, and other assistive technology by educating people about hearing loss
*raise funds to expand services and programs for people with hearing loss and their families at the national and local levels
empower the HLAA state organizations and chapters to work with community leaders to organize walks for fundraising and local outreach
Walk Details
Date:
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Location:
Veterans Park
1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Dr.
Milwaukee, WI
Directions
Schedule:
9am - Registration/Check-in
10am - Walk begins
Distance: 5K (3.1 miles)
Walk Chairs:
Jean Szabo / Caroline Ludka
Milwaukee Walk4Hearing information page:
http://hlaa.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1670&pg=entry
HLAA launched the Walk4Hearing™ to:
*increase awareness among the general public about hearing loss and the 36 million Americans who have hearing loss
*minimize the stigma associated with wearing hearing aids, cochlear implants, and other assistive technology by educating people about hearing loss
*raise funds to expand services and programs for people with hearing loss and their families at the national and local levels
empower the HLAA state organizations and chapters to work with community leaders to organize walks for fundraising and local outreach
Walk Details
Date:
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Location:
Veterans Park
1010 N. Lincoln Memorial Dr.
Milwaukee, WI
Directions
Schedule:
9am - Registration/Check-in
10am - Walk begins
Distance: 5K (3.1 miles)
Walk Chairs:
Jean Szabo / Caroline Ludka
Milwaukee Walk4Hearing information page:
http://hlaa.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1670&pg=entry
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