15th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 13-15, 2016 • San Diego, CA
3/01/2010 | 11:25 AM - 11:55 AM | Topical Session 1 | Guggenheim 3 | 7 - Family Perspectives and Support
Supporting Professional Education through a Web-Based Community of Practice
The challenges of building knowledge and skills in the community of service providers who are charged with working with families of children with hearing loss are many. Updating knowledge bases and skill sets, mentoring novice professionals and reaching out to rural communities are just a few of the challenges that face program administrators on an ongoing basis. This presentation will describe how one professional education program has maintained a vibrant 'community of practice' that works to sustain participants when they return to the workplace to 'situate' their new knowledge and skills.
- 1. list the challenges in providing professional education for knowledge and skill building to better serve families of children with hearing loss 2.identify the components of a web-based professional education platform 3. select elements of professional development needs in the workplace that may be assisted by web technology
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Mary Ellen Nevins
(Primary Presenter), UAMS, menevins@uams.edu;
Mary Ellen Nevins, Ed.D., is a Professor and the Director of Auditory-Based Intervention at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Nevins is an experienced teacher of children who are deaf or hard of hearing and the former Director of PPCI, a continuing education program for speech and hearing professionals housed at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Nevins is recognized as a national expert on the educational issues facing children who are deaf or hard of hearing especially those using listening technologies to learn to listen and talk.
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