... Bell Association of the Deaf, Inc. Gayla Hutsell

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• THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS OF
• SPECIAL EDUCATION
• (NASDSE)
• Gaylen Pugh, Ph.D.
• Deaf Education Initiative Project

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NASDSEs Deaf Education Initiative Project

• Purpose of the Guidelines
• Writing Team
• Time line
• Training component

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Project Writing Team

• Alexander Graham Bell Association of the Deaf,
  Inc.
• Gayla Hutsell
• American Society of Deaf Children (ASDC)
• Barbara Raimondo
• American Speech, Language and Hearing Association
  (ASHA)
• Pam Mason
• Association of College Educators Deaf and Hard
  of Hearing (ACE_DHH)
• Dr. Marilyn Sass-Lehrer

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Project Writing Team, cont.

• Cochlear Implant Center
• Debra Nussbaum
• Conference of Educational Administrators Serving
  the Deaf (CEASD)
• Barbara Raimondo
• Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf
  (CAID)
• Robert Hill
• Council for Exceptional Children (CEC -- DCDD)
• Dr. Kevin Miller

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Project Writing Team (cont)

• Educational Interpreter Issues
• Dr. Leilani Johnson
• National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
• Jay Innes
• National Center for Low Incidence Disabilities
  (NCLID)
• Dr. John Luckner
• National Cued Speech Association (NCSA)
• Susan Cofer
• State Consultants Association Deafness
• June Street

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Components of the Training Program

• Foundations of Education
• Supportive Structures and Administration
• Assessment
• Placement and Program Options
• Personnel
• Appendices

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Deaf and Hard of Hearing State Infrastructures
and Initiatives

• State-level Personnel
• State Schools for the Deaf
• Leadership Positions
• Certification/Licensure Options
• Cochlear Implants
• Mental Health

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NASDSE Satellite Conference

• May 4, 2005
• 100 to 300p.m. (EDT)
• Assistive and Universally-Designed Instructional
  Technologies to Meet the Needs of All Learners

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IDEA Partnerships

• Professional Development Seed Grants
• Dialogue Guides
• Partnership through Shared Agendas
• Legislative Community Training

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Personnel Center

• National Recruitment Campaign
• Focused Work in States
• www. Personnelcenter.org
• Dr. Phoebe Gillespie, Project Director

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Project FORUM

• Policy Analysis
• Synthesis Briefs
• Quick Turn Around Reports (QTAs)

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INTERSECT

• State Charter Schools

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OUTCOMES PROJECT

• State Collaborative on Assessment and Student
  Standards (SCASS)
• Developing Alternative Assessment Technical
  Adequacy (DAATA)

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The Center for Improving Teacher Quality (CTQ)

• Model policies
• Model statewide teacher licensing systems
• Teleconference
• National Forum

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Websites

• www.nasdse.org
• www. Personnelcenter.org
• www.ideapartnership.org
• www.edgateway.net/specialedprimers