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State Leaders Summit : Making a Commitment to Systems Change in Deaf Education

May 7, 8 & 9, 2007, Columbia , MD

Session Date and Time: May 8 - 9:45-10:45AM


Name of Facilitator/Presenter Gaylen Pugh
E-mail Address gaylenp@knology.net

Name of Recorder Cheryl Johnson
E-mail Address Cheryl@colorado.edu

Topic title and brief description:

 

NASDSE Guidelines

Key Issues or Points of Discussion:

  1. Explanation of process and revision from 1995-2006 Guidelines
  2. State Dissemination of Guidelines
  3. Educational Seminars for training on Guidelines
    1. Training options - 3 levels individualized to where states are in their planning process
    2. Support for "Community of Practice" to evolve relative to development of supports for DHH programming
  4. Outcome and hope: Each state would have a state plan to implement a plan to identify the educational issues and needs for all students who are DHH.
  5. Training can be paid by Department of Ed or any other entity that has the funds - often collaborative

Solutions/Strategies; Commitments of Participants; Improvement Suggestions:

  1. Use as trainer of trainers model for getting information to other groups including parents within a state.
  2. Promote on-going discussion to continue discussions and planning through "Community of Practice" model.
  3. Program Standards/Guidelines - CO, CA, WI - other states? Go to department of ed websites to locate.
  4. Use Guidelines to support program/placement decisions for individual students (parents/teachers).
  5. Suggestions for trainings:
    • Must include deaf individual in training
    • Information about educational interpreters and what that means in the classroom
    • Information on how to address need of students with teacher shortage
    • Expectations of students relative to academic performance and state accountability system - same expectations for DHH students as for hearing peers, high expectations
    • TODs ability to address students with CIs - perception is that they can be taught like a typical hearing child when they cannot be
    • Eligibility for services for DHH students - looking beyond academic needs to include communication and social aspects
    • Training should be based on some framework of goals such as Deaf Child Bill of Rights; this would help lead to statewide systematic changes; education should be a process rather than a place.
    • Utilizing other existing products that are available (e.g., MENUS)
    • Need to related content to IDEA regulations
  6. Need to send information to School for the Deaf superintendents

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