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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. In this issue you will find what was new, updated, or highlighted on the Clerc Center Web site (http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/) during February 2004. WHAT'S IN THIS ISSUE: -- Kendall Demonstration Elementary School Tech Fair Announced -- -- Details About MSSD Internship Program Updated Online-- -- Forum for Occupational, Physical Therapists Discussed in Happenings -- -- Info to Go’s Listing of Upcoming Conferences, Exhibits Revised -- -- Web ‘Hits,’ KDES Tech Fair Among Press Releases Added Online -- -- Clerc Center Collects Opinions on Critical Needs in Deaf Education -- **************************************************************** -- Revisions Made to Training & Professional Development Schedule -- The Clerc Center’s Training and Professional Development (TPD) office, which provides training and technical assistance to schools and programs throughout the United States, has revised its schedule. It can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TPD/training-schedule.html. In addition, TPD has announced details about the Summer Literacy Institute,
a week-long conference for parents, caregivers, educators, and other professionals
who work with deaf and hard of hearing students. More information about
the institute can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/TPD/summer-literacy.html. -- Kendall Demonstration Elementary School Tech Fair Announced -- Information has been announced online about the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (KDES) Tech Fair 2004, which aims to provide opportunities for families to experience technology as students experience it, to showcase teacher and student work with technology, and to highlight the various technologies used by deaf and hard of hearing people. More information can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/ISCS/techfair.html.
The website of the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) Internship Program has been updated with new information, including about the program and information for employers and supervisors. The internship program site can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Transition/Internship-Program/index.html. More information about MSSD can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/mssd/index.html.
A regular feature of On the Green (http://pr.gallaudet.edu/otg), a publication for Gallaudet University faculty and staff, the Clerc Center Happenings column posted in February described the deaf forum for occupational and physical therapists renewed by the Clerc Center. The column can be viewed at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/Forum2-6.html. It is also accessible (along with the archives) from the Clerc Center Happenings Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/Happenings/index.html.
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. Each month, the “Upcoming Conferences and Exhibits” section is updated. It can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/conflist.html. For more information about Info to Go, visit: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/InfoToGo/index.html.
New press releases have been added to the Clerc Center site, including: The press releases, along with other news and events, can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Clearinghouse/index-news.html.
The Clerc Center is collecting public input on critical needs for deaf
and hard of hearing children in three priority areas: family involvement,
literacy, and transition from high school to postsecondary education and
employment. Comments about these critical needs are being collected through
an on-line questionnaire that can be found at: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/About/info-request.asp.
No personally identifying information will be included with the responses
and the results will be summarized in a future issue of Odyssey
(http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/Odyssey/index.html). **************************************************************** Information about this E-Newsletter: You are receiving this e-mail because we received a subscription or information request via our Web site. However, if you are not interested in receiving this free E-Newsletter or feel you have received this message in error, please e-mail enews.clerccenter@gallaudet.edu with "UNSUBSCRIBE to E-Newsletter" in the subject or body of the message. You can also contact Ken Kurlychek about the E-Newsletter via e-mail: kenneth.kurlychek@gallaudet.edu . Love this E-Newsletter? Tell your friends and coworkers! Send them to this Web site to SUBSCRIBE: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/e-news/registration.html . The E-Newsletter is intended to briefly highlight what is new or recently revised on the Clerc Center Web site. It is distributed monthly. All information contained in this E-Newsletter is Copyright © 2004 by the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center . **************************************************************** |
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February 2004