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to top This document describes the project that received funding in Fiscal Year 2004 by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education, under its competition 84.325C, Training Center in Early Intervention for Infants and Toddlers Who Have Hearing Impairments Including Deafness. This funding is authorized by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), our nation's special education law.
NICHCY is pleased to make this listing available to you online. The listing comes from a longer publication with the incredibly long title of: Volume 2 of Discretionary Projects Supported by the Office of Special Education Programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Fiscal Year 2004: Personnel Preparation.
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| Project Director:
Compton, Mary V.; Niemeyer, Judith University of North Carolina - Greensboro P.O. Box 26171, School of Education Greensboro, NC 27402-6171 Voice: 336-334-3771; Fax: 336-334-4120 E-mail: mvcompto@uncg.edu; janiemey@uncg.edu; ehshroye@uncg.edu Web site: http://center.uncg.edu |
Beginning Date: 1/1/2001 OSEP Contact: Maryann McDermott |
Purpose: The focus of the Center for Early Intervention Professionals in Hearing Impairment, Including Deafness (CEIP-HID) is to alleviate the poor achievement results of children who have hearing impairments, by ensuring that preservice professionals develop the skills and competencies to meet the unique needs of infants and toddlers with hearing impairments.
Method: The center will develop and field-test empirical Web-based preservice training modules in best practices in early intervention for infants and toddlers with hearing impairments (including deafness) and their families. The modules will be disseminated to university programs preparing personnel to work with infants and toddlers who have hearing impairments, and to university programs preparing infant development specialists, infant special educators, social workers, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, parent educators, psychologists, counselors, interpreters, and transliterators. A conceptual framework that integrates developmental, comprehensive, transdisciplinary, family-focused, and transactional perspectives permeates each project objective. Professionals in hearing impairment, early childhood education, and related early intervention service provision will be equipped with competencies to engage in appropriate, state-of-the-art best practices to address the specialized needs of infants and toddlers who have hearing impairments and their families so that their linguistic, cognitive, and social development will parallel those of children who do not have hearing impairments. The project will develop a program of study that focuses on the acquisition of professional competencies in the areas of developmental, communication, social, conceptual, cultural, medical, and technological needs of infants and toddlers.
Products: The project will mitigate the disparity of achievement gaps between individuals with hearing and hearing impairments. The project will develop, field-test, and disseminate empirical Web-based modules in early intervention for preservice professionals who serve infants and toddlers with hearing impairments, and will establish an ongoing center to provide training via onsite education, distance education, and consultative mentoring leading to competency-based nationally recognized specialist certification in early intervention.
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NICHCY publishes the OSEP Directories
of Funded Projects annually, as part of our larger work in maintaining the
database of all OSEP-funded discretionary projects. Project Director: Suzanne RipleyNICHCY thanks our Project Officer, Dr. Peggy Cvach, at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), U.S. Department of Education. We also would like to thank Doris Andres and Robin Murphy of OSEP's Research to Practice Division for all their help, support, and diligence, without which this information would not be available online and in print. |
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