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**************************************************************** This is the E-Newsletter of Gallaudet University’s Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, which works for the education of deaf and hard of hearing students throughout the United States.
-- Literacy in the Workplace Discussed in New Odyssey -- -- Decisions of Hispanic Families Paper Available on Sharing Results Site -- -- Papers in Sharing Ideas Series Now Downloadable in PDF, Word -- -- Miss Deaf America, DecisionMaker™ Described in Happenings -- -- MSSD’s Team 12 Shares How Instant Messaging Helped with an IEP -- -- Info to Go Updates Include Mental Health Providers, Conference List -- **************************************************************** -- Literacy in the Workplace Discussed in New Odyssey -- The Fall 2002 issue of Odyssey, a Clerc Center magazine about deaf education, has been posted online. It includes articles about literacy in the workplace, such as “Bringing Technology to English Class,” “Literacy Skills on the Job,” “Smoothing Out Transition,” and “SSR? DEAR? DIRT? Independent Reading is for Everyone.” Perspectives from around the country, the Clerc Center’s training schedule, reviews, and news are also included in the magazine. Odyssey can be read online at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/Fall2002/index.html or http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/index.html. -- Decisions of Hispanic Families Paper Available on Sharing Results Site -- A Look at the Decisions Hispanic Families Make After the Diagnosis of Deafness has been added to the Sharing Results online library in English and Spanish. This paper is the result of a study that examined the decision-making process for Hispanic families living in the United States who have a child who is deaf or hard of hearing. It includes families’ experiences in learning about their child’s disability, searching for appropriate interventions, and making choices regarding communication and education. The authors explore the impact of language, culture, minority status, and access to information and services on the decision-making process and offer implications for service providers. This paper can be read online at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Products/Sharing-Results/HispFam/index.html in English or at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Products/Sharing-Results/HispFam-S/index.html in Spanish. (This document is also available through KidsWorld Deaf Net at: http://clerccenter2.gallaudet.edu/KidsWorldDeafNet/e-docs/index.html.) More information about the Sharing Results series can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Products/Sharing-Results/. More information about KidsWorld Deaf Net can be found at: http://clerccenter2.gallaudet.edu/KidsWorldDeafNet/index.html. -- Papers in Sharing Ideas Series Now Downloadable in PDF, Word -- The titles in Sharing Ideas, a series of occasional papers, are now available for downloading and printing in PDF or Word formats. This makes the eleven papers easier to print from home, for free. The Sharing Ideas series can be found online at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Products/Sharing-Ideas/index.html. To access PDFs, Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed and can be downloaded from: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html. -- Miss Deaf America, DecisionMaker™ Described in Happenings -- A regular feature of On the Green (http://pr.gallaudet.edu/otg), a publication for Gallaudet University faculty and staff, the Clerc Center Happenings columns posted in December include an article on Tyese Wright, a teacher at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School and Miss Deaf America, and DecisionMaker™, a student-directed transition program developed by, and now available from, the Clerc Center. The columns can be viewed at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/kdes12.20.html and http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/decision12.6.html. The columns are also accessible (along with the archives) from the Clerc Center Happenings Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/index.html. -- MSSD’s Team 12 Shares How Instant Messaging Helped with an IEP -- Team 12 of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) has documented online how they used America Online’s Instant Messenger tools to help with an Individualized Education Program (IEP). The Web site includes tips for using Internet chats to conduct IEPs. It can be viewed at: http://team12.gallaudet.edu/Ext/aimiep.html. -- Info to Go Updates Include Mental Health Providers, Conference List -- Info to Go is a centralized source of up-to-date and objective information about topics dealing with deafness and hearing loss for the age group 0-21. The following Info to Go Web pages were updated in December and January: -- Locating Providers of Mental Health Services for People who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/mentalhealth.html) -- Upcoming Conferences and Exhibits (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/conflist.html) -- Careers in Deafness (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/133.html) For more information about Info to Go, visit: **************************************************************** Information about this E-Newsletter: ****************************************************************
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