2012 Meetings
January 10, 2012 Let's Get Organized A Skill-Building Workshop for Families of Children with Special Needs
March 13, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Parents Met No Guest Speaker "Just Parents" Night~more time to make connections~
- Are you feeling overwhelmed by the volume of records that you need to keep for your child?
- Do you need to develop a method of organizing all of the information you collect about your child’s special needs?
- Would you like to learn a way to effectively manage medical and educational paperwork?
- We will provide you with tools to put together a “system in a notebook” and share organizing and problem-solving tips.
March 13, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Parents Met No Guest Speaker "Just Parents" Night~more time to make connections~
May 8, 2012- Geoff Plant Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation
Geoff Plant, OAM is an Australian teacher of the Deaf who has lived and worked in the US for the past 20 years. Geoff has developed a large number of testing and training resources for children and adults with hearing loss. He is the Rehabilitation specialist for MED-EL UK and is a frequent contributor to conferences and workshops in the UK, US, and Australia. Geoff is also the Executive Director of the Somerville-based Hearing Rehabilitation Foundation (HRF), a registered not-for-profit organization formed to provide and promote Speech Communication Training for children and adults with hearing loss. Geoff has a special interest in the use of music to enhance the speech and language skills of children with cochlear implants and/or hearing aids. He is the author of "The Farmer's Cheese," which has been adapted as a musical work for children with cochlear implants.
July 10, 2012 - Kim Davis
Kim Davis, age 14, was identified with hearing loss at the age of four, since the statewide infant hearing screening test law had not yet been passed. Her parents, Dan and Dotty Davis, had no idea what to do, they didn't even know children could get hearing loss, let alone have hearing aids. It was a struggle to find out how to raise a daughter with hearing loss and unbound energy among raising three other kids, but they asked doctors how to deal with it. Turns out, all they had to do was live with it! Kim Davis is now an above average student, going into ninth grade. She enjoys talking to people (a lot), babysitting, drumming, acting, meeting people, and reading. She would like to add that hearing aids won't impact how your child does in school, but their attitude towards it will.
November 13, 2012- David Luterman, PhD
Dr. Luterman, is Professor Emeritus Emerson College in Boston and Director of the Thayer Lindsey Family Centered Nursery for Hearing Impaired Children. He has dedicated his career to developing a greater understanding of the psychological effects and emotions associated with hearing impairment and the caregiver role so as to encourage professionals in the field of communication disorders to incorporate counseling strategies in their clinical interactions. He has successfully translated this understanding into a model of counseling which allows for content and affect exchange. He has lectured and written extensively on counseling and deafness throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. He is a fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association. He is author of: Counseling Parents of Hearing Impaired Children (1979,Little Brown), Deafness in Perspective (1986, College Hill), Deafness in the Family (1987,College-Hill), In the Shadows (1995, Jade Press), When Your Child is Deaf (2001,York Press), The Young Deaf Child (1999,York Press), Early Childhood Deafness Edited with Ellen Kurtzer- White (York Press, 2001), Hearing Loss in Children: A Family Guide ( Auricle Ink Press,2006) and Counseling Persons with Communication Disorders and Their Families 5th edition (2008), Pro-Ed. Dr. Luterman is the 2011 recipient of the Frank R. Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Achievement award from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
