Ohio School for the Deaf - Consultation & Prof Dev

CENTER for OUTREACH SERVICES

Consultation & Professional Development Assistance

Who?

The Center for Outreach Services supports everyone involved in educating a deaf or hard-of-hearing child up to age 21 using any communication approach. Consultation services and professional development assistance provided by the Center for Outreach Services benefits professionals, families and caretakers, including:

Teachers of the deaf (classroom & itinerant)
Intervention specialists
Regular education teachers and staff
Early childhood providers
Cochlear implant teams
Regional Infant Hearing Programs (RIHP) staff
Speech and language pathologists
Educational audiologists
Occupational therapists
Physical therapists
Educational interpreters
Deaf mentors
Administrators
Families

How?

Depending on the topic, we can help in different ways, including:

Public workshops, conferences and online seminars sponsored by the Center for Outreach Services -- see the Upcoming Events page
Individual learning experiences (at our office or via distance technology)
- Consultation
- Mentoring
Group learning experiences (on site or via distance technology)
- Facilitated discussion
- Workshops
Sharing resources

What?

Consultants with the Center for Outreach Services at the Ohio School for the Deaf have expertise in many areas related to the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

Educational Issues

Determining appropriate accommodations
Communication options
Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) development
Assessing students through Multifactored Evaluations (MFE) and standardized testing
Transition from School to Postsecondary Education, Training or Employment
Roles of the members of educational teams
Differentiated Instruction
Successful strategies for reading and literacy

Early Childhood

Language development - signed and spoken language
Speech development
Transition to from early intervention to school-age services

Classroom Accessibility

Visual Access
Auditory Access
Interpreting and Accessibility

Technology to Support Deaf/Hard of Hearing Learners

Assistive technology in educational settings
- FM systems
- Software
- Captioned media, closed captioning
- Voice-to-print services (C-print, CART, etc.)
- Video communication (videophones, webcams, etc.)
Personal hearing devices in educational settings
- Hearing Aids
- Cochlear Implants
  - Classroom considerations
  - Communication issues
  - Educational issues
  - Interpreting implications

Interpreting Skills and Knowledge

Best practices
- Ethics
- Communication with other team members
Interpreting from spoken to visual language
- Oral and signed transliteration
- Signed interpretation
- Incorporation of fingerspelling, classifiers, prosody and other ASL features
Interpreting from visual to spoken language
Textual analysis
- Message comprehension
- Speaker intent
Interpreting with special populations
- Deaf-Blind
- Limited language skills
- Multiple disabilities

American Sign Language (ASL)

Introductory ASL classes for families
Subject-specific ASL vocabulary for academic subjects
Educational materials in ASL

Deaf Culture and Identity

Identity development
Deaf culture
Deaf history
Hearing loss
Communities within deafness

Contact us for more information.