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AG Bell 2018 Presentation Slides

This summer I had the opportunity to present with some incredible friends and colleagues at the 2018 AG Bell Convention in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Below are PDFs of the slides from our presentations.  Enjoy!

2016 RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM NEUROIMAGING – PREDICTING HEARING AND LANGUAGE OUTCOMES

The 2016 AG Bell Research Symposium was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD), and featured panelists: Julie Arenberg Bierer, Ph.D., CCC-A John S. Oghalai, M.D. René Gifford, Ph.D. Anu Sharma, Ph.D.

ADVANCING PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES IN POVERTY

Susan Lenihan Ph.D., CED Jenna Voss Ph.D., LSLS Cert. AVEd Colleen Kinsella Approximately 1 in 5 children in the US live in poverty.  How can listening and spoken language professionals better serve them?  

DIG DEEP: BUILDING A MENTORING MINDSET

Sherri Fickenscher M.S., CED, LSLS Cert. AVEd Ashley Garber M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVT Fickenscher and Garber shared their four pillars of mentoring, asking the audience questions that prompted self-reflection on the role of mentors and mentees as “learning partners” during the LSLS certification process.

ACCELERATING PARENT EFFECTIVENESS: AN EVIDENCE-BASED COACHING MODEL

Maribeth Lartz Ph.D. Tracy Meehan M.A., DT-H Wendy Deters M.S., CCC-SLP, LSLS Cert. AVEd The presenters, faculty members from the AIM TO BE AHEAD listening and spoken language graduate certificate program at Illinois State University, shared their five-step checklist that helps students improve their parent coaching skills.  

GENERAL SESSION – KEYNOTE SPEAKER

David Sousa, Ed.D. David Sousa shared insights from the field of educational neuroscience, which combines psychology, neuroscience, and pedagogy to study the interaction between mind, brain, and education.  With technology influencing nearly every aspect of our lives, how has this changed the way children relate and learn?

2020: REASSESSING TEACHER PREPARATION – THE NEXT DECADE

Dan Salvucci M.Ed., M.E.D., CCC-A Jenna Voss Ph.D., CED, LSLS Cert. AVEd The Fontbonne Clarke Northeast Collaborative is a distance learning program providing a master’s in deaf education for students both at Fontbonne’s home campus in St. Louis, Missouri and students at various oral school practicum sites across the Northeastern US.