WVSDB Fall Conference.
October 11-13, 2017
Deaf/Hard of Hearing Sessions.
These sessions will focus on strategies, tools, and other resources to help educate and guide student with varying degress of hearing loss. Sessions will be open to anyone interested in learning to improve students' lives in and out of the classroom.
Accessible Media for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Cindy Camp
Thursday Session 1 9:45-10:45
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Research has shown that the use of multimedia in the classroom is beneficial to all students. However, teachers of the deaf may not use video because it can be difficult to find appropriate educational media with high quality captions. The Described and Captioned Media Program is a free, federally funded program, which provides accessible educational classroom media. Learn about this free resource and how accessible media can enhance your classroom.
See-The-Sound:
Visual Phonics Refresher
Ashley Suddath
Thursday Session 1 9:45-10:45
Thursday Session 2 11:00-12:00
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This workshop is offered only to individuals what have previously attended a Level 1 Visual Phonics workshop, but need a refresher. Participants will review all handshapes and written symbols as well as practice decoding and encoding words.
Hearing Loss: How Does it Affect Your Students?
Dr. Melanie Ashworth
Thursday Session 1 9:45-10:45
Thursday Session 4 2:15-3:15
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This session will cover the basics of hearing loss, including anatomy of the hearing system, types/causes of hearing loss, the acoustics of sound and how it affects your student's ability to hear in the classroom, and hearing technology. Implications of hearing loss and ideas on how to help your deaf/hoh students reach their full potential will be discussed.
Alice Cogswell and Anne Sullivan Macy Act
Barbara Raimondo
Thursday Session 2 11:00-12:00
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This session will cover this bill, also known as H.R. 1120, which has been introduced in the federal House of Representatives. When passed, this bill will improve the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to better serve deaf, blind, and deafblind students. This session will outline the reasons the bill is necessary, the key provisions of the bill, the overall strategy for its passage, and the steps attendees can take to support it.
How to Read an Audiogram: What Do All Those Symbols Mean?
Thursday Session 2 11:00-12:00
Thursday Session 3 1:00-2:00
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This session will cover the basics of how to read an audiogram. The general predictions that can be made based on the information provided on the audiogram will also be discussed, as well as the many factors that can influence deaf and hard-of-hearing students' performance.
Current Federal Law and Policy
Barbara Raimondo
Thursday Session 3 1:00-2:00
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This session will cover federal law and policy specifically as it pertains to deaf and hard of hearing students. It will address key concepts of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as ways in which they intersect. It will describe recent Supreme Court decisions and the ways in which they could impact the education of deaf students. It will highlight tools educators can use to advocate for an appropriate education for these students.
Collaboration and Realistic Goal Setting for Transitioning Students
Crystal Miller
Thursday Session 3 1:00-2:00
Thursday Session 4 2:15-3:15
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This presentation will provide a brief overview of the WV Division of Rehabilitation Services’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing program and developing a strong collaborative relationship with Education to assist students in developing realistic obtainable career goals.
Language Assessments for Deaf/Hard of Hearing: New Policy 2419 Requirements
Wendy Garrison & Annette Carey
Thursday Session 4 2:15- 3:15
Friday Session 5 8:30-9:30
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WV Board Policy 2419: REGULATIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS WITH EXCEPTIONALITIES was amended to required comprehensive language assessments for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, IEP goal(s) and monitoring if the student's language does not meet the language milestones. This session will review the requirements of this new policy and its impact on students.
Functional Listening Evaluations -
YOU CAN DO IT!
Molly Simonton
Friday Session 5 8:30-9:30
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Functional Listening Evaluations (FLE) are relatively new in WV and many of the teams serving deaf/hard of hearing students are not yet skilled in providing this evaluation. The purpose of a FLE is to determine how a student's listening abilities are affected by noise, distance, and visual input in one's natural listening environment. An FLE is designed to simulate listening ability in situations that are more representative of actual listening conditions than can often be replicated in sound booth assessment. There have been several training opportunities over the past couple of years but not a systematic approach to ensure all DHH teams have the hands on training necessary to conduct these evaluations. These evaluations take approximately 30 minutes to conduct and provide critical information on the students ability to utilize his/her residual hearing in their actual classroom(s).
Let's Discuss: WV Deaf Education and Employment Trends
Dr. Stephanie Cawthon & Dr. Kurt Metz
Friday Session 5 8:30-9:30
Friday Session 6 10:00-11:00
Friday Session 7 11:15-12:15
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This session describes education and employment trends for deaf individuals around the country and in West Virginia, specifically. Data will be discussed in an interactive format, emphasizing possible strategies to promote successful long-term outcomes for deaf youth.
IEW: Fool-Proof Writing Curriculum
Molly Simonton
Friday Session 6 10:00-11:00
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"IEW's unique approach provides the structure that students need to develop confidence in the writing process, while gradually guiding them toward greater independence and creativity. They will learn nine structural models (note taking, writing paragraphs, stories, simple reports, writing from pictures, research reports, creative writing, essays, and critiques) to help them organize any type of composition. Additionally, stylistic techniques (strong verbs, quality adjectives, sentence openers, and more) are taught incrementally to gently move students from the basics into more sophisticated writing." http://iew.com/intro-iew/working-iew-materials/how-does-iews-writing-program-work
Challenges in ASL: How to Correctly Present English Idioms in ASL
Dr. Martin Keller
Friday Session 6 10:00-11:00
Friday Session 7 11:15-12:15
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According to Wikipedia, it is estimated that there are at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language. And professionals in Deaf education know that there are hundreds of English idioms that cannot be translated literally into ASL. Participants will learn how to translate English idioms correctly into conceptually correct ASL signs.