Rebecca Houghton - Co-Presenter
Seattle Children's Hospital
Credentials: MS, ABSNP
Other Affiliations: WA Statewide Outreach Team for Childhood Center for Deafness and Hearing Loss (CDHL)
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Rebecca Houghton has worked in Deaf Education for 16 years, as a teacher, early intervention provider, and school psychologist. Currently she is a school psychologist for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) program in Tacoma School District, as well as for the Washington Statewide Outreach Team for DHH students. She works for the Hearing Loss Clinic at Seattle Children's Hospital as an educational consultant, providing families with information and resources regarding school programming, accommodations, special education law and Section 504...and any other needs that arise related to patients' education and school programming. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Julia Petersen - Co-Presenter
Seattle Childrens' Hospital
Credentials: mental health therapist, MA-MLHC
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Julia Petersen has been working as a Mental Health Therapist/DHH Consultant at Seattle Children’s Hospital (SC), Department of Psychiatry, DHH Program for the past 23 years. Julia is deaf herself. Her work involves collaboration with the Audiology and Interpreting Departments, community mental health agencies, schools, DHH children, adolescents, their families and communities. Julia conducts mental health diagnostic evaluations and she often needs to consider linguistic and cultural sensitivity while working with families. Her most recent pursuits include developing support groups for signing DHH middle and high school students; interactive communication/sign language program for Spanish-speaking parents of DHH children. Julia is also an integral member of the SC's Hearing Loss Clinic in the Department of Audiology/Childhood Communication Center. Julia provides consultative services, including assessing the social/emotional well-being of DHH individuals and the family’s adjustment with the identification of hearing loss/deafness. |
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ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exist.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exist.
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Patricia Cleary - Co-Presenter
Seattle Children's Hospital
Credentials: Nurse Practitioner
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Patricia Cleary is a nurse practitioner at Seattle Children's Hospital. |
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