EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021
(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)
3/07/2023 | 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM | Does your EHDI Website Get Noticed? It Should!! | DECC 207/208
Does your EHDI Website Get Noticed? It Should!!
Let's face it, EHDI Website are typically hard to navigate. Has this been your experience? Most EHDI websites are held in their stated department of public health. State EDHI Systems should still hold a place on their public health sites, but can your state do more? Partnering with your states FBO to create and maintain a EHDI For families and professional’s website is a first step, or should we say leap? This session will show you how as an FBO you can accomplish this as well as for EHDI Program leaders to see what can happen with a successful collaboration. Our website provides parents instant information on everything having a baby that is deaf/hard of hearing. We didn’t stop there; however, we also provide professionals a place to learn more through webinars and online training videos. Our mini video series was developed to ensure we weren’t overwhelming families, instead giving them a taste of a particular topic and allowing them to determine when they wanted more information. We will dive into our very active website to show you the simple steps we’ve taken to make this happen.
- Participants will leave with ideas to enhance their own EHDI Websites to include parent voice.
- EHDI Programs will leave with information on how to expand their current website.
- Family Based Organization can learn how to partner with their state EHDI System by Managing the EHDI Website.
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Presenters/Authors
Andrea Marwah
(), IL Hands & Voices Guide By Your Side, executivedirector@ilhandsandvoices.com;
Andrea Marwah received her BA degree in Psychology from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Since her daughter was diagnosed with hearing loss in 2002, she has taken a special interest in educating parents and professionals on matters concerning ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act), IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) - special education rights, and advocacy for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Andrea presents both locally and nationally on matters pertaining to advocacy and IDEA; deafness/hearing loss when combined with other disabilities; the impact of deafness/hearing loss; socialization and many other topics surrounding parenting and working with children who are deaf and hard of hearing. She works for the Illinois Department of Human Services, Illinois School for the Deaf as an outreach trainer and consultant for families and professionals who work with children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired or deaf-blind. She is also a parent advocate supporting families in Illinois at their child’s IEP meeting or behind the scenes preparing them to attend the meeting and advocate themselves. Andrea is the Executive Director at Illinois Hands & Voices and has been a leader with them since 2010, began as the IDEA liaison for the Guide By Your Side Program in 2009 where she provides unbiased information and one-on-one advocacy and IDEA support to families who have children who are deaf/hard of hearing and is a national trainer for the Hands & Voices ASTra Training Program and a member of the Hands & Voices speakers bureau. She works closely with Designated Service Coordinators providing group training and individual consulting. These are trained individuals who work directly with infants and toddlers in Illinois birth to three who have a diagnosis involving vision, hearing or a combination of both in her state early intervention program. Andrea works as a liaison with the Early Intervention Training Program on issues surrounding deafness and hearing loss. She sits on numerous committees both locally and nationally. Andrea also served for six years on the Advisory Commission on Disabilities in her home town of Naperville, where she lives with her husband Ajay and 3 children Samantha, Julia and Andrew.
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