Beyond NIDCD: News from Other Organizations
New Publications about Deaf-Blind Children
The Practice Perspectives series by the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness is designed to expand and broaden current information resources by presenting them in understandable and accessible formats. The first two titles of the series are Harmonious Interactions and Children Who Are Deaf-Blind. For more information, visit the National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness Web site.
Updates from House Ear Institute
New Research Building – House Ear Institute recently completed its Wallis Annenberg Research Center. Located near downtown Los Angeles, the center will enable House Ear Institute scientists to expand upon current cellular and molecular research, studies in the genetics of hearing loss and other areas. Guided tours of the institute’s research labs and educational facilities are available. Contact Nancy Hoffman at (213) 483-4431, ext. 7027, to schedule a tour or to learn more.
Ear Exhibit – The exhibit entitled Journey through the Human Ear is currently on display at House Ear Institute. When not on loan as a traveling exhibit, this exhibit is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call the marketing department at (213) 483-4431, ext. 7078.
Speechreading Workshops – House Ear Institute offers nine-week workshops on speechreading (lipreading) and coping skills three times per year for people with hearing loss. Choose from beginner or advanced programs. The next session is April 16 - June 11. For more information, contact Felice M. Kolda, M.A., at (626) 445-2074 or email info@hei.org.
Central Institute for the Deaf Announces Three Spring Workshops
Tools and Techniques for Assessing and Teaching Language – March 5-6. This workshop is designed to provide teachers and speech-language pathologists with the tools and techniques necessary to teach spoken language, through listening and talking, to children age 3 to 12 years with hearing loss.
Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Impairment – March 26. Widespread early identification laws have made it necessary for today's service providers to be trained to work with infants and babies who are deaf and hard-of-hearing in their natural environment. This workshop is designed to help speech-language pathologists, early childhood special education teachers and audiologists feel more confident when working with this very young population and their families.
SPICE Plus: Auditory Management of Children with Cochlear Implants and/or Hearing Aids – March 27-28. This revised workshop builds on the Central Institute for the Deaf’s curriculum entitled Speech Perception Instructional Curriculum and Evaluation (SPICE). The course is designed to teach audiologists, speech-language pathologists and teachers how to develop auditory skills in children with cochlear implants, hearing aids or both. It features live demonstrations, video, classroom observation, hands-on practice and expanded activities, including new activities for older children and children whose skills have advanced beyond the scope of the basic curriculum.
For more information on each of the workshops, contact Dianne Gushleff at dgushleff@cid.edu or call toll-free at (877) 444-4574, ext.133, or (314) 977-0133. Registration information is available on the Central Institute for the Deaf Web site.
Stuttering Foundation Offers New Resources
Cluttering, a 42-minute DVD, illustrates the essence of cluttering as well as the problems that often accompany it. Like stuttering, cluttering is a fluency disorder, but the two disorders are not the same. Cluttering involves excessive breaks in the normal flow of speech that seem to result from disorganized speech planning, talking too fast or in spurts, or uncertainty about what one wants to say. Strategies and suggestions for diagnosis and treatment of cluttering are provided.
Stuttering: Basic Clinical Skills, a 135-minute DVD, demonstrates speech management strategies to help professionals work effectively with children and adults who stutter. It showcases dynamic demonstrations of stuttering therapy techniques by experts from around the world.
Autism Spectrum Disorders and Stuttering is a brochure that answers questions and gives helpful tips to parents and professionals for a child who stutters and who has one of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including Asperger’s syndrome.
Trouble at Recess is a book written for children ages 6-10 by an 8-year-old girl who stutters. Children who stutter will relate to the main character as she copes with her stuttering and with teasing from others.
Tartamudez: Para niños, Por niños, a 12-minute DVD and online streaming video, is the Spanish-language version of Stuttering: For Kids, By Kids.
For more information on how to obtain these resources, call the Stuttering Foundation at (800) 992-9392 or (901) 452-7343 or visit the Stuttering Foundation Web site.
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