17th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 18-20, 2018 • Denver, CO
3/19/2018 | 4:25 PM - 5:30 PM | Broadening Perspectives: A Collaboration Between Traditionally Divisive Ideological Camps on Deaf Education | Centennial Ballroom E-H
Broadening Perspectives: A Collaboration Between Traditionally Divisive Ideological Camps on Deaf Education
In Fall 2016, the Moog Center, a private oral school in St. Louis, Missouri that teaches children with hearing loss to talk, joined with DEAF, Inc., a non-profit organization that focuses on advocacy and communication access for the deaf community, to pilot a program to broaden perspectives for children with hearing loss and their families.
DEAF, Inc. and The Moog Center recognize that choices regarding methodology of deaf education can be divisive and there is a need to collaborate with parents and families along with their children to understand that this does not have to be the case. Through the creation of safe spaces for dialogue, parents have provided feedback indicating that there is a strong interest in understanding the possible contribution of sign language and the deaf community as a part of social identity development in the deaf child’s future as a tool to develop language and social identity along with the importance of Spoken English. Together, these organizations began offering an after-school program for the school students and their parents in an effort to break down barriers and misconceptions, including sign language, and expose children and their parents to the broader deaf community. The collaborative program in which the Moog Center and DEAF, Inc. have engaged have shown promise in bridging often divisive perspectives into the shared pursuit of providing early intervention and language choices for the deaf child and their families.
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Betsy Moog Brooks
(), The Moog Center for Deaf Education, bbrooks@moogcenter.org;
Betsy Moog Brooks is the Executive Director of the Moog Center for Deaf Education, a non-profit private school that teaches children who are deaf or hard of hearing to talk. She has earned a degree of Doctor of Education in Instructional Leadership with an emphasis in Andragogy, the study of adult learners. She received her Master’s degree in Speech and Hearing from Washington University and is certified in Deaf Education, Behavior Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Early Childhood Education and is a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist. She has been in the field of early intervention for more than 30 years and continues to provide direct child service and parent support to families with children birth to three.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
Receives Salary for Employment from Moog Center for Deaf Education.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
Thomas Horejes
(), Gallaudet University, thomas.horejes@gallaudet.edu;
Dr. Thomas Horejes received his PhD in Justice Studies at Arizona State University and is currently Gallaudet University’s Associate Provost of Student Success & Academic Quality. Prior to his position at Gallaudet, he was former Executive Director of DEAF, Inc.— based in St. Louis—that provides advocacy and interpreting services to the deaf/hard of hearing community. He has numerous publications, including a book entitled, Social Constructions of Deafness: Examining Deaf Languacultures in Education. He is also former professor of sociology at Gallaudet University.
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.