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Agenda for the 5th Annual Leaders in Deaf Education Meeting
“Achieving National Outcomes Through Professional Leadership”
Wednesday 8th September 2010
12 noon Lunch
1.00pm Welcome & overview of meeting – Professor Greg Leigh
1.30pm Keynote presentation – Dr Cheryl DeConde Johnson, Colorado, USA
“The Leader's Role in Promoting Advocacy and Accountability”
2.30pm Afternoon tea
3.00pm Kate Crowe, Research Speech Pathologist, National Acoustics Laboratory
“The language acquisition of children with hearing loss: Interim results from the
LOCHI study”
4.00pm Close
5.30pm Wine and Cheese
6.00pm Dinner
Thursday 9th September 2010
8.30am Coffee and networking
9.00am Senator Rachel Siewert, Chair of Senate Inquiry into Hearing Health in Australia
Presentation “Hear Us Senate Report” May 2010
10.00am Morning tea
10.30am Workshop -“Developing and implementing an agreed national qualification standard
for Teachers of the Deaf” Chair – Dr Cheryl DeConde Johnson, Colorado, USA
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Program Updates, Innovations and Issues &
Summary and planning for the next Leaders Meeting
3.00pm Close
| Dr Cheryl DeConde Johnson was formerly a special education consultant with the Colorado Department of Education where she was responsible for deaf education and audiology services. Prior to her state service, she spent 22 years in the Greeley, Colorado school district as an educational audiologist and program administrator for the deaf and hard of hearing program. Dr. Johnson is currently providing technical assistance, training, and program evaluations via The ADVantage (Audiology, Deaf education, Vantage), her consulting practice. She continues her research, writing, and teaching at several graduate programs in deaf education and audiology. Cheryl has a grown daughter who describes herself as sometimes deaf, sometimes hard of hearing. |
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Venue RIDBC Renwick Centre, 361-365 North Rocks Road, North Rocks NSW
Further Information john.richards@ridbc.org.au or phone 0402142442
Accommodation Available on-site in King House – enquiries by email to king.house@ridbc.org.au
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