Cochlear Implants and Sign Language: Putting It All Together

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Cochlear Implants and Sign Language Putting It
All Together

• April 11-12, 2002

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Why we are here

• To share
• To get started
• To validate
• To ask questions
• To get on the same page

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• Is there anything new under the sun????

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What this meeting is not about

• To learn about the technology of a cochlear
  implant
• To debate whether or not cochlear implants are an
  appropriate choice
• To debate whether or not cochlear implants
  improve speech perception abilities
• To discuss methodologies that do not include use
  of sign language
• To obtain consensus

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Changing face of Deaf Education

• Characteristics of children served will be
  different
• One size fits all does not meet needs of all

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What this meeting is about

• Planning comprehensive and effective
  educational programs that include sign language
  for the growing number of diverse children with
  cochlear implants

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Agenda in a nutshell

• Irene Leigh and John Christiansen
• Cochlear Implants and Children Ethics and
  Choices
• Program sharing
• Mary Koch
• Effectively Integrating Spoken Language and
  Sign Language
• Working groups
• Patricia Spencer
• Planning for the Future
• Discussion group sharing-issues and
  recommendations

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Housekeeping issues

• Discussion groups
• Book sale
• Clerc Center booth
• Tours
• Networking opportunities
• Participants list
• CI sign
• CART documentation
• Phones/pagers
• Assistance