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This training is meant to serve as an introductory discussion about best practice ideas to promote good mental health in the classroom. We will review the roles of various mental health professionals. Participants will discuss strategies that encourage collaboration with parents and outpatient providers to promote wellness. We will consider the ways that various mental health issues can impact learning and peer relations. We will review how to find local resources for mental health support in your district and consider barriers to care.

In recent years, practitioners in our field have noted a marked decrease in the number of supervisors and administrators with a background in deaf education. This Hour with the Expert session will highlight the experiences of four highly-skilled deaf education practitioners who have made the successful transition into supervision and administration, with an emphasis on considerations for those thinking of taking the leap, current challenges and successes, and the future direction of the field.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide specific information regarding the graduation requirements and the various pathways to graduation in the state of Pennsylvania with an emphasis on IEP team considerations for students with Deaf-Blindness.

Deaf-Blind Liaisons serve as the point person for families and staff for LEAs who provide services to a student with deaf-blindness. This webinar will define the role of the liaison, provide foundational information on deaf-blindness and its impact on learning, as well as direct the liaison to the supports and resources which may support teams. Deaf-Blind Liaisons serve as the point person for families and staff for LEAs who provide services to a student with deaf-blindness. This webinar will define the role of the liaison, provide foundational information on deaf-blindness and its impact on learning, as well as direct the liaison to the supports and resources which may support teams.

In this video you will learn what educational interpreters do, how they are qualified, and in what settings they work.

This module is one of a ten part series with Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. Our ability to think as well as to acquire and learn language is largely dependent on patterns, contrasts and constraints. Much like being adrift on a vast ocean, language, without these features, causes listeners to be awash in a sea of confusion, until some form ‘life ring’ is made available to use to take us to firmer foundation. This workshop will focus on prosodic features of language which provide such critical information.

This module is one of a ten part series by Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. Good writers write usually have some form of an outline or discourse structure to guide their writing. Educational discourse is much the same. While most educational interpreters may not have the actual outline of lesson instruction, it is essential that they create a visual scaffold on which to build their interpretation. This workshop will define the notion of discourse mapping and linguistic features frequently used to indicate discourse units and shifts in discourse.

This module is one of a ten part series with Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. For many students learning sign language, significant attention is place on learning hand-shapes and movements. However, in sign language, signs do not function in some obscure, separate visual realm. Thus, use of eye gaze, eye-brow movement and head movement are critical grammatical features of any form of sign language. This workshop will focus on learning about these grammatical non-manual markers and use of these non-manual behaviors while interpreting.

This module is one of a ten part series by Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. During sign language learning, a great deal of focus is errantly directed towards the hands only, viewing other parts of the body as ‘extras’ or unnecessary embellishments. The fact of the matter is, that for signing to be grammatical, it is not an either/or situation (meaning face or hands), but it is both! This training will focus on the use of, primarily, the lower portion of the face, the portion used for lexical purposes.

This module is one of a ten part series by Kevin Williams, produced by PaTTAN. Language is a set of patterns and at the syntax (or sentence level), language is built on the clause level. Some clauses are independent while others are dependent on other surrounding clause for conveying intent. This workshop will focus on the analysis of classroom discourse in order to gain better ‘rhythm” predication skills while building educational interpretations, and reduce the number of ‘moving violations’ we create while interpreting.