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RIT - NTID - NTID News - Web Site Launched for Parents and Educators of Deaf Children
A new Web site intended to be a clearinghouse for questions about raising and educating a deaf child has been launched by the Center for Education Research Partnerships at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.
The Web site, RIT - NTID - Raising and Educating a Deaf Child, is intended to answer questions from parents, teachers and other professionals who work with deaf children.
Approximately 90 percent of deaf children have hearing parents, so many times those parents feel overwhelmed and at a loss to find resources to answer questions they may have.
The information on the site is intended to provide full and objective information. A number of resources are listed, and visitors to the site are able to post questions to be answered by experts in that field.
A sampling of questions already addressed include: How will parents communicate with their deaf child? Will hearing aids help? Is my child a candidate for a cochlear implant? How will my child interact with peers?
The Web site also has a calendar to list upcoming events of related interest. Submissions from the community are encouraged.
Project partners include the American Society for Deaf Children, Hands & Voices, the National Deaf Children's Society and the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
The Web site is sponsored in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation in Rochester, N.Y. and receives additional funding from Oxford University Press.
For more information about the Web site or to contribute a free listing for an upcoming event, contact Marc Marschark at (585) 475-6580 V/TTY or email at Marc.Marschark@rit.edu.
A new Web site intended to be a clearinghouse for questions about raising and educating a deaf child has been launched by the Center for Education Research Partnerships at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college of Rochester Institute of Technology.
The Web site, RIT - NTID - Raising and Educating a Deaf Child, is intended to answer questions from parents, teachers and other professionals who work with deaf children.
Approximately 90 percent of deaf children have hearing parents, so many times those parents feel overwhelmed and at a loss to find resources to answer questions they may have.
The information on the site is intended to provide full and objective information. A number of resources are listed, and visitors to the site are able to post questions to be answered by experts in that field.
A sampling of questions already addressed include: How will parents communicate with their deaf child? Will hearing aids help? Is my child a candidate for a cochlear implant? How will my child interact with peers?
The Web site also has a calendar to list upcoming events of related interest. Submissions from the community are encouraged.
Project partners include the American Society for Deaf Children, Hands & Voices, the National Deaf Children's Society and the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
The Web site is sponsored in part by the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation in Rochester, N.Y. and receives additional funding from Oxford University Press.
For more information about the Web site or to contribute a free listing for an upcoming event, contact Marc Marschark at (585) 475-6580 V/TTY or email at Marc.Marschark@rit.edu.