ACE-DHH Conference Program

Best Practices in Deaf Education

February 22nd-February 25th

 

                                               

                                                                                                                       

Wednesday, February 21st

 

7-9 ACE-DHH Executive Board                                                                                  Conference room                  

 

                                                                                                                                   

Thursday, February 22nd

                                                                                                                                   

8:30-Noon       Pre-conference Workshop                                                                    Regal Ballroom A

Earlier Identification for Earlier Intervention:                                 

Implications for Deaf Education                                                       

Dr. Christine Yoshinaga-Itano                                                  

University of Colorado-Boulder                                                           

 

1-3                   Opening Session                                                                                   Regal Ballroom         

                        Keynote Speaker                                                                                

                        Dr. Joan Wink                                                                                     

                        California State University-Stanislaus

 

3:30-5              Roundtable Discussions on Trends                                                        Regal Ballroom         

·        Early Intervention                                                         

·        Deaf Teachers in Deaf Education                                 

·        Technology

·        Literacy

 

6:00                 Reception                                                                                             Courtyard Regency

 

 

 

Friday, February 23rd

 

8-9                   ACE-DHH Business Meeting                                                               Regal Ballroom

 

9:30-12            Crossing the Realities Divide Catalyst Grant                                          Regal Ballroom

                        Harold Johnson, Karen Dilka and Regional Directors

 

1:30-3              Concurrent Sessions I                                                                       Regal Ballroom

 

                         Regal Ballroom A                                        

·        Experiences of Families with Young Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing:  Implications for Professional Preparation

Marilyn Sass-Lehrer, Kathryn Meadow-Orlans, Donna Mertens & Jennifer Pittaway

 

·        Preparing Personnel to Serve Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children who are D/HH and their Families in the 21st Century

Ann Powers

 

·        Parents and Partners in Teacher Education

Barbara Mills & Barbara Hecht

 

                        Regal Ballroom B

·        Deaf Students’ Choice of a Pre-Service Teacher Preparation Program for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children and Youth

Brenda Simmons & Kathleen Warden

 

·        Consumers Beliefs Regarding Critical Factors in the Educational Placement of Deaf Students in Grades K-6:  Implications for Teacher Educators

Jay Innes

 

·        Preparing Teachers to Work with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students from Linguistically Diverse Families

Barbara Gerner de Garcia

 

                        Regal Ballroom C

·        Characteristics of CED-Approved Programs:  A Pilot Study

Thomas Jones & Karen Ewing

 

·        Case Studies in Deaf Education:  Learning From Teachers

Lou Larwood

 

 

3:30-5              Concurrent Sessions II                                                                      Regal Ballroom

 

                        Regal Ballroom A

·        Facilitating Social Interaction in Inclusive Settings:  The Teacher’s Role

Maribeth Nelson Lartz

 

·        Essential Competencies for Teaching Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing with Additional Disabilities

John Luckner

 

·        Vision Screening for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing:  The Teacher’s Role

Susan Easterbrooks & Debbie Parkman

 

                        Regal Ballroom B

·        Developing a Web Resource to Improve Deaf Students’ Problem Solving Skills

Ronald Kelly, Harry Lang, Martha Gaustad & Keith Mousley

 

·        An Analysis of Deaf Education Teaching Positions:  1996-1999

Harold Johnson

 

Regal Ballroom C

·        Students Writing for Students—Enhancing Literacy for All

Diane Klein & Christy Roth

 

·        What do We Already Know About Improving the Literacy Skills of Deaf Children and What Can We Do About It?

Margery Miller

 

·        Four Philosophical Views of Language:  Where Does Deaf Education Fit?

John Muma & Henry Teller

 

 

 

Saturday, February 24th                                            

 

8-9:30              Concurrent Sessions III                                                                    Regal Ballroom

 

                        Regal Ballroom A

·        Cyber Mentoring 101:  Basics for Expanding the Prospective Teachers Experience

Karen Dilka & Debbie Haydon

 

·        Anatomy of a Fully Web-Based Graduate Course in Deaf Education

Thomas Jones

 

·        Distance Learning:  Students & Instructors Weigh-In:  YOU be the Judge

Deborah Stryker

 

                        Regal Ballroom B

·        Basals with a Big Book:  Bridging the Gap Between Literacy Best Practice and “Real” Practice

Pamela Luft

 

·        Enhancing and Assessing Literacy Using “The Learning Record”

Bobbie Allen, April Edwards McArthur, Jennifer Hipskind & Darah Grisham Hipskind       

 

·        Emerging Trends in Performance Assessment:  Implications for Teacher Educators

Kelly Crain & Carie Palmer

 

                        Regal Ballroom C

·        Fostering Bilingual Competence in Deaf and Hearing Graduate Students:  Assessment, Support, and Specialization

Judith Coryell, Marcia Virts, S. Melvin Carter & Eddy Laird

 

·        Implementation of a Video Series to Establish Basic Sign Communication Skills in Spanish Speaking Parents with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

Connie Salvador

 

·        Recipes for Success:  Choosing More Than One Option in Deafness

Judith Curtin

 

 

9:45-11:15       Concurrent Sessions IV                                                                     Regal Ballroom                                             

                        Regal Ballroom A

·        Which Language?  When, Where, and How?:  A Discussion of Bilingual ASL-English Education

Kathee Christensen, Joseph Fischgrund, Mary Kane, Jay Innes & Claire Ramsey

 

·        BiBi Education:  What Did We Learn in Stockholm?

Azar Hadadian

 

                        Regal Ballroom B

·        Auditory-Oral Meets Birth-Kindergarten:  Integrating Early Childhood and Deaf Education

Mary Compton & Judith Niemeyer

 

·        Preparing Teachers to Work with Infants and Toddlers with Hearing Loss

Barbara Hecht & Gisele Ragusa

 

                        Regal Ballroom C

·        An International Comparative Study on Deaf Children’s Cognition

David Martin

 

·        An Examination of Deaf College Students’ Comprehension of Consistent and Inconsistent Relational Statements in Arithmetic Word Problems

Ronald Kelly, Harry Lang & Keith Mousley

 

·        Issues and Trends in Literacy and Deafness:  1996 to 2000

Donald Moores & Margery Miller

                                                                                               

 

11:30-12:15     Business Meeting                                                                                  Regal Ballroom

 

12:15-1:45       Lunch Banquet                                                                                     Regal Ballroom                                                                                                         

 

Explore San Diego!

 

 

 

Sunday, February 25th

 

8:30-9:45         Interactive Demonstrations and Continental Breakfast                 Regency Room

·        Center for Early Intervention Professionals in Hearing Impairment, including Deafness:  A Model for Creating and Sharing Best Practices

Mary Compton, Judith Niemeyer & Ed Shroyer

 

·        Chinese Finger Syllabary and Cued Speech:  What You Hear Is What You See?

Jun Hui Yang & Bobbie Gale Fox  

 

·        Deaf Education:  Gallaudet’s Ph.D. Program and the Face of Tomorrow’s Educators

Bobbie Gale Fox

 

·        Raising the Bar: Do CED Standards Prepare Our Graduates for Current teaching Expectations?

Pamela Luft

 

·        Reading Strategies:  A Comparison of Deaf and Hearing Readers

Sandy Bowen

 

·        Phonological Awareness=Improved Literacy Skills?

Barbara Fiedler

 

·        Early Intervention:  Establishing a Community-Based Mini Camp for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Carmel Collum Yarger                                           

                                                                       

 

10-12                             CED Training                                                                         Regal Ballroom A

Tom Jones

                                                                                                           

10-11                             Panel Presentations I

                                                                       

Regal Ballroom B

·        Emergent Literacy for Young and/or Reluctant Learners

Roberta Truax, Leslie Baldwin, Kathleena Whitesell & Sunita Nayer

 

                        Regal Ballroom C

·        Academic and Social Status and Progress of D/HH Students in Public Schools:  Preliminary Data

Shirin Antia & Kathryn Kreimeyer

 

11:15-12:15     Panel Presentations II                                                                                                          

                                                                                                                       

Regal Ballroom B

·        A Review of Five Years of Best Practices in Deaf Education

Jerry Jatho, Beth Creech & Donald Moores

 

·        Development of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Inclusive Classrooms

Michael Stinson & Shirin Antia

 

 

12:30-1:30       ACE-DHH Executive Board                                                                 Regal Ballroom A