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Hi, I'm Karen Anderson, Director of Supporting Success For Children with Hearing Loss.
I bet you're watching this webcast right now because you've seen that Supporting
Success now has webcasts for sale for view.
I bet you might have a good idea, that you're wondering about
presenting as one of Supporting Success' webcasts.
Your interesting and practical 'try this tomorrow'
idea really could earn you some dollars.
Let me tell you a little bit more
about what that might mean.
We really do need expertise. We need
real world teachers of the deaf and hard of
hearing, we need speech language pathologists,
we need educational audiologists or other
professionals or persons who've worked extensively
with students or children with hearing loss or their parents
or their teachers. Real world viewpoint is what
we're after, not mainly theory. Although theory and research
is really important as foundation what we really want to do is tap
into your practical experience. If you've worked extensively
with kids and teachers and parents, you've worked with
students of varying needs and even moreso if you have
years of trying new and old and wild and bold techniques
then we may very well want to see your proposal with
your good ideas. What are the desired topics?
It's pretty wide open; anything you've tried and find works
well, whether it's techniques or approaches or anything that
you've learned is really important to consider
as you plan or do or consult to support the success
of children with hearing loss. Those important concepts,
and things to think about that you'd like to share with
your colleagues. Really anything that addresses the
needs of children with hearing loss is what we're interested in.
Because the endpoint is to improve the successful outcomes
of our students and our children with hearing loss through the use
of evidence-based practices. And what do we mean by
evidence-based practices? Well, there's two general ways
of thinking about it. The first is practice based on research
studies, and most people in the field of deaf and hard of hearing
realize there are very few studies that look at techniques that
can identify those that really have been very efficacious
very successful in improving outcomes for children with
hearing loss. The other way to look at evidence-based
practices is evidence of the effectiveness of a practice
from systematic collection of data, from observing if what
you've just tried made a difference, of gathering pre-
test, post-test data to identify how well your approaches
or techniques have improved student outcomes.
In other words, that's just good teaching.
So, share your success stories, share your knowledge.
And also, share your passion and contribute to building a
better future for children with hearing loss. What topics?
Again, it's pretty wide open. It includes collaboration,
mental health, communication modality instruction
including ASL, cued speech, listening and spoken language,
evaluation and progress monitoring, instructional
practices, what can we do to support students' better access
of the general education curriculum, hearing technology...
The thing to keep in mind, though is that these aren't infomercials.
It's not 'Try and Sell a Product' What's really welcome is
for presenters who say, 'This is a problem I was noticing
and these are the things I've tried, and this is what I've
found really worked. Let me share the data with you and
let me share some case examples. That's really what
we're after because that's what we think the field really is
looking for. So how does this work?
The first step is to submit a proposal. Not everyone's
proposal is going to be accepted but you don't know
until you submit one. Once your proposal has been
approved, you would submit your CEU paperwork.
Supporting Success has chosen to offer AG Bell's listening
and spoken language specialist CEUs because it was important
to provide some rigor to the review of the purpose and
objectives of each of our webcasts. The listening and
spoken language specialist CEUs fall into nine broad areas,
including educational techniques for working with students with
hearing loss, so please do not take this to mean that we are
not willing and open or don't want any presentations that
talk about ASL or teach speech or more visual forms of
language or communication. There's a great number of
students for whom those are really critical ways to
communicate, and if you are a person who communicates
through American Sign Language or visual support, please
feel free to submit a webcast as well. Once your paperwork has
been submitted you start to work on your powerpoint using the
template. You can see an example of the template [in the webcast]
Once that has been reviewed, you're going to get instructions
for how to record a webcast, and once your webcast has been
completed and uploaded, that's when you can start earning some
funds. What are the primary benefits? I think the most
important one is knowing that you have contributed to
improving the successful outcomes of children with hearing loss.
You've helped your colleagues, you've helped families, and
you've helped children. As you may know, each of the
Supporting Success webcasts cost the participant $20 to view.
As a presenter, you would receive $10 of that and most of the rest
would go to expenses to make sure we keep these webcasts up and
running and captioned. You'd also be granted six hours of
Continuing Education Verifying that it took you time to research
and record and really do a good job to pull together a practical,
well-developed one hour proposal. And then practical, popular,
interesting topics really may earn you a tidy supplemental income.
Recording a webcast sounds hard but it's really easy.
No one expects that you're going to have an Emmy or Oscar winning
performance...Heavens no... I'm talking with my colleagues,
with other people I know who are passionate about working with
children or students with hearing loss, and I'm willing to share
ideas; I really want to share my ideas. So, it is easy to do
the mechanics of recording a webcast although you do have
a computer and internet access. For more information
on submitting a webcast proposal, please download the
handout, 'Submitting a Proposal to Present a Webcast' and
again, not everybody's proposals will be accepted, and even those
are accepted and developed won't all be popular. But you never
know until you send in your idea. So, thank you for listening to
this short webcast and I hope to see your webcast proposal
soon. Thanks�