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Strategies for English Language, Listening and Speech Development

Explore strategies to assess and facilitate the listening, speech, and English language skills of students who are deaf or hard of hearing used at Northwest School for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students (Seattle area). View photos and film clips to gain useful instructional practices that nurture a communication-rich environment within academic activities. Opportunity to practice in pairs and small groups, and ask individual questions will be incorporated into the presentation as time allows. A handout of the strategies is provided.

• be able to name 3 formal and informal assessment tools in the areas of listening, speech, and language
• be able to explain or demonstrate the use of 3 listening strategies and 3 speech strategies
• be able to explain or demonstrate the use of 3 English language strategies

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Meigan McLean (Primary Presenter), Northwest School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children, m.mclean@northwestschool.com;
Currently a Teacher of the Deaf at Northwest School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children located in Seattle, WA and has taught in the elementary/secondary Deaf/Oral Programs at the BC School for the Deaf, Burnaby, BC, Canada Doctorate of Education focusing on the Critical Studies of Deaf Learners in Education, from Gallaudet University Masters of Education focusing on Special Education/Deaf Education, from the University of British Columbia, Canada Co-Authored two publications on using Signing Exact English (SEE) in the education system to access English in the American Annals of the Deaf and the Canadian Association of Educators for the Deaf/Hard of Hearing

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