15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA

The 2016 EHDI Annual Meeting Planning Committee would like to make you aware of and invite you to participate in one of two different field trip opportunities while you are in San Diego attending the EHDI Meeting. Both field trips are scheduled for Wednesday, March 16, 2016. For information on the tours and how to register for them, please see below.

Cost to attend a field trip: $40 (Meals are NOT included.)

For additional information regarding either field trip, please contact Mandy McClellan at mandy.mcclellan@usu.edu.

Field Trip Option 1: Tour of San Diego Unified School District Deaf and Hard of Hearing Programs

Jeanne Cicchetto, San Diego Unified School district, would like to welcome you to visit four schools that provide programs and services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students.

This field trip will allow for a maximum of 9-15 participants.

The schedule for the tour on Wednesday, March 16, would be as follows:

7:00am	Start off at hotel - meet Town & Country 500 Hotel Circle North San Diego, CA 92108
7:15am	Depart hotel
7:45am - 8:25am	Welcome, Visit classes Madison High School (Comprehensive Program) 4833 Doliva Dr, San Diego 92117
8:40am - 9:30am	Lafayette Elementary School (ASL/English Program) 6125 Printwood Way, San Diego 92117
9:45am - 10:40am	Creative Preforming Media Arts Middle School (Comprehensive Program) 5050 Conrad Ave, San Diego 92117
10:55am - 11:45am	Whitman Elementary School (Listening and spoken Language Program) 4050 Appleton St, San Diego 92117
11:45am - 12:15pm	Debriefing/Q & A
12:45pm	Participants will return to the Town & Country

Field Trip Option 2: Tour of Research Labs that focus on Language of Deaf Children

Four of the country (and world)'s top research labs when it comes to researching Deaf people's language usage and development are located in San Diego! Here's an opportunity to visit two of them in one shot! Buses will leave the hotel at 8:45 a.m. for the first lab located at San Diego State University- the Lab for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (LLCN) for a tour and presentation on their latest research updates. We will then travel to the Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development at the University of California in San Diego for a tour and presentation before returning to the hotel before 12:30 p.m.

This field trip will allow for a maximum of 40 participants.

The schedule for the tour on Wednesday, March 16, would be as follows:

8:45am	Start off at hotel - meet Town & Country 500 Hotel Circle North San Diego, CA 92108
9:00am	Leave for SDSU Lab for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience (LLCN) (12 min drive) 6495 Alvarado Rd, San Diego, CA 92120
9:15am - 10:15am	LLCN tour and presentation
10:30am - 11:00am	Travel to Mayberry Lab at UCSD (25 min drive) 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
11:00am - 12:00pm	Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development tour and presentation
Noon	Depart for Town & Country - Arrive by 12:30 p.m.