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Aiming to improve Education for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Aiming to improve Education for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Nina S. Coyer MA Ed in Elementary Education and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education RID: CDI ASLTA: Professional Language Mentor. KCDHH Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Study Group. Goals: Revisit the AIR report

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Aiming to improve Education for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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  1. Aiming to improve Education for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nina S. Coyer MA Ed in Elementary Education and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education RID: CDI ASLTA: Professional Language Mentor

  2. KCDHH Education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Study Group • Goals: • Revisit the AIR report • Meet with KDE staff • Identify gaps between the AIR report and current statistics • Create report on gaps • Long Term Goal

  3. October, 2011 • Members: • Nina S. Coyer • Virginia Moore • Wilton McMillian • Soraya Matthews • Becky Bush • Amy Hatzel • Mona McCubbin • Artie Grassman • Anita Dowd (Liaison)

  4. Quotes • Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius • Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb

  5. Barriers and New Goal • DOSE • Removal of our KDE staff

  6. CEASD: Child First Campaign • NAD Conference last week: Dr. Ron Sterns • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz91GqEKNwo

  7. Child First • Quality access to language and communication is a human and educational right • One size fits all? Proximity alone is not integration • Must have an education and learning environment and learning environment that goes beyond mere physical inclusion- it must provide accessible language development and interaction opportunities so that the child is a true member of the school communnity

  8. Child First: Suggestions • Accessing a Free and Appropriate Public Education FAPE • IEPs: to include Child’s Language and communication needs which also involving with peers and professionals that daily enhances the child’s intellectual, social and emotional development. • Evaluation? • Ensuring that a Continuum of alternative placement: LRE?

  9. Make a Stand for our Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students! • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

  10. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.Nelson Mandela • Michael Jordan: “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

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