ISU Early Intervention DHH Grant Seminar-Invitation Only: Meet in Rendezvous Room
10:45-11:45 / Eligibility or Entitlement? How Does DHS/DRS Decide Which Students They Work With?
Jean B. Baker / Manipulative Visual Language
Jimmy Challis Gore
Robert Gilles / Inquiry, Science and Reading
Shelia Stephens
Nicole Allen / Data Collection: How to do it and What to do with it
Raven Stromek
Marissa Noble / Advances in Implantable Technology, Med-El Corporation
Christine Pett
1:15-2:15 / Illinois Agenda
Pat Evans
Karen Bogdan / Linguistic and Cultural Considerations When Working With Latino Children and Parents
David Quinto-Pozos / Strategies That Work: Strategies for comprehension and vocabulary instruction across the curricula
Carrie Grieme / Gadgets and Apps and Tools, Oh My!
Brenda Schmidt
Tammy Cook
Cyndi Stacy / Promoting Social-Emotional Development with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Autumn Hoyt
Stefanie Ortman
2:15-2:45 / Area Meetings
1,3,9 & MAC / Area Meetings
2, 11 & Out of State / Area Meetings
7, 10 & 12 / Area Meetings
4, 8 & ISU / Area Meetings
5 & 6
3:00-4:00 / Graduate Studies in Deaf Education: Advance Your Skills!
Maribeth Lartz
Tracy Meehan / Multicultural
Make & Taste
Double Session
Kristin Faust / Using Manipulatives to Solve Story Problems in Diverse Classrooms
Autumn Bruere / Diversity in Learning…
We Have an App for That!
Double Session
Aimee Veith
Kathleen Hughes / Developing Effective Self Advocacy in a Diverse World
Brenda Schmidt
Jennifer Olech
4:15-5:15 / College Hour
Hosted by ISHI / Story Blocks- Building Blocks to Story Retelling
Deborah Hogan / Diversity, Shmiversity: I don’t WANT to be different!
Brenda Schmidt, Raven Stromek, Jen Olech & Cheri Sinnott
**ISU Early Intervention DHH Grant Seminar-Invitation Only: Meet in Rendezvous Room
9:45-10:45 / Teaching Strategies for Students With a Dual Diagnosis of Deafness and Autism
Christy Borders
Stacey Bock / Using the PIWI Philosophy to Positively Influence Parent Involvement with Infants and Toddlers
Julie Grygiel / Even More Parts: Discussion of popular idioms and phrases
Craig Kuhn / The Psychology of Hearing: Implications for Cultural Sensitivity and Competence in Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children/Youth
Ernest Garrett / Eliciting, Correcting, and Expanding Spoken Language
Stacy Simek
11:00-12:00 / Help Me Communicate
Teresa Venton / Maximizing Students’ Accommodations
Christine Tisor-Leab
Christina Woodall / Diverse Uses of Non Manual Signals
Nina Wilson / The Mainstream Experience:
The Learner's Perspective (panel)
Nancy
Kelly-Jones / Multidiscipline Approach for CI Success
Stacy Simek
Beth Tournis
Anne Murphy
12:15-1:15 / Becoming an Illinois BEI Certified Interpreter: Navigating the Certification Process
Becki Combs / Be Prepared!
Resources for Itinerant Teachers
Rebecca Hanson
Robin Mina / Interpreter Trials and Teaching Mainstream Students How to Use an Interpreter
LaWanda Brewer / Collaboration of Home and School: A Panel of Parents
JR Harper / Troubleshooting How-To for Cochlear Implants
Stacy Simek
Beth Tournis
Anne Murphy
Emily Murray
Idaliza Vargas
1:30-2:30 / Promoting a Safe Classroom: Prevention, Intervention and Learned Behavior
Gabe Wright / Travel Tips for Individuals with
Hearing Loss
Tina Childress / Label My Language: Home and School (with the help of Boardmaker software)
Deborah (Wilcox) Mills
Leah Porter / Warp 5 Learning: Beam Me Up Scotty!
Holly Elkins
Thank you for attending ITHI’s 48th Annual Conference!
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