2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2014 | 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Issues Hearing Parents Face with Our Deaf/Hard of Hearing Child’s Education and Their Life | City Terrace 7 | 7
Issues Hearing Parents Face with Our Deaf/Hard of Hearing Child’s Education and Their Life
A majority of children who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing are born to hearing parents. No parent is immediately an expert on their newborn baby and there are periods of adjustment and learning for everyone, but adding the variables that come with a Deaf/Hard of Hearing child can be overwhelming and isolating. We are two of those parents. We were co-workers and close friends before we had our children. We both have late-diagnosed Deaf/Hard of Hearing children with different etiologies. We have each used different modes of communication to enable our children to learn and communicate. We have enrolled our children in a variety of school situations. We have moved school districts and have even moved across the country to find what we need for our children. We have lived through and talked through these decisions together and we know how important it is to acknowledge and discuss them. We will provide that forum for families by drawing on our own experiences and encouraging families to talk about theirs.
- Participants will be able to see similarities and differences in their own situations or those of their patients and understand the thought process we all go through searching for what we need for our Deaf/Hard of Hearing children.
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Presenters/Authors
Lisa A Weiss
(Primary Presenter), LAW Access Education LLC, coloradocues@gmail.com;
Lisa A. Weiss is a mediator and a public school policy expert. She provides direct instruction in self advocacy, work adjustment training, and communication access as a private educational interpreter with a family based cooperative School to Work Alliance Program called Solid Ground Denver.
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Susan Fingerle
(Co-Presenter), Hands & Voices, susanfingerle@msn.com;
Susan Fingerle is the parent of a 13 year old son who is Hard of Hearing. Susan has worked as a special education attorney since 2002 and has been involved with Hands & Voices in New York and Alabama. Her family recently moved to Denver, Colorado.
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