2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 3:50 PM - 4:15 PM | National Hearing Loss Resource Website | Room 12
National Hearing Loss Resource Website
Thanks to a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Library Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (LSDHH) in Nashville will be expanding their website to serve all fifty states. LSDHH serves the Deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind communities, their families (children and adults), sign language interpreters, teachers, students, researchers, and scholars.These services are now only available for Tennesseans, but with this project, LSDHH can serve Deaf, Deafblind and hard of hearing people who lack knowledge of resources available in their states through a website capable of access from all fifty states. The goal of this project is to
1) Provide a free, accessible, relevant, national portal for resources on hearing loss in each state via an interactive national map hosted on the LSDHH website
2) Collaborate with Deaf Community members and organizations who will solicit sites to include from their state and identify at least one library from each state who will maintain the state’s page once the grant-funded period is complete.
- The attendee will learn of valuable resources in his/her state and nation.
- The attendee will learn of an opportunity to influence other stakeholders in their state.
- The attendee will learn of the coming resource to benefit stakeholders in all fifty states.
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Presenters/Authors
Sandy Cohen
(Primary Presenter), Library Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, sandy.cohen@nashville.gov;
As the director of LSDHH, Sandy began the program forty years ago and has since been on the board or advisory board of no less than seven local, national, or international organizations serving the Deaf. She is also a member of ALA (presented at one conference) and worked with International Federation of Libraries Association, where she helped write guidelines for serving deaf and hard of hearing people in libraries.
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Poppy Steele
(Co-Presenter), Library Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, poppy.steele@nashville.gov;
Poppy grew up in the Deaf world. She has worked as an interpreter and advocate for Deaf children.
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