News and Events

2012 News and events

Recent masterclass – ‘Building Resilience’ with Paul Kallaras

On Sunday 1 April 2012 the Victorian Deaf Education Institute hosted a well-attended Masterclass entitled ‘Building Resilience’ presented by Paul Kallaras.  Paul is a psychologist from the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children with a particular interest in facilitating child and adolescent wellbeing. 

Paul’s presentation was based on the concept of the Resilience Doughnut created by clinical psychologist, Lyn Worsley – a simple, yet effective model for building resilience in young people. Research has shown that children who are deaf or hard of hearing are more likely to encounter external stressors which affect mental health and wellbeing.

Recent masterclass – ‘Assistive technology for secondary students who struggle with literacy’ with Greg O’Connor

On Thursday 29 March 2012 the Victorian Deaf Education Institute hosted their very first Masterclass at their new state of the art learning centre at 597 St Kilda Road.  Greg O’Connor from Spectronics, who has more than 30 years’ experience in supporting the learning of people with diverse learning needs, presented the Auslan interpreted, live captioned event. 

Participants left this highly engaging workshop with a good understanding of the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) and their implementation in a learning environment, an up to date understanding of the range of assistive technology literacy support tools available to school students and strategies for making decisions about the selection and implementation of these tools. 

Greg also supplied participants with useful internet links, information from research and resources concerning assistive technology in schools and and a comprehensive list of apps to support students struggling with literacy, organisation and study.

Connecting globally, acting locally

Following significant stakeholder engagement and collaborative ideas development, the government’s commitment to build the Victorian Deaf Education Institute has come to fruition.

In February 2012, we moved into an amazing space - a state of the art technology hub with lecture room space, interactive multi-media and video conferencing facilities.

The historic site at 597 St Kilda Rd represents 150 years of deaf education in Victoria. We have been welcomed by our site partners and thank the Victorian College for the Deaf for enabling a large area of the College administration and library area to be freed up for this innovative build.

The high definition video conferencing centre allows workshops, seminars, meetings, classroom activities and clinical support services to be beamed to teachers, children and families in remote and regional areas across Victoria. This enables deaf and hard of hearing students and professionals to receive the best learning opportunities and wellbeing support, regardless of where they live. Later this year, we look forward to bringing our international community of experts into the seminar spaces. We would like to thank all of our stakeholders for their involvement and encouragement over the course of the building project.

New professional learning calendar for 2012

In partnership with schools, universities and professional organisations the Victorian Deaf Education Institute are proud to present their new professional learning events for 2012.

For 2012 program dates, see: 2012 Professional Learning Program - Save the Date (PDF - 518Kb)

This Professional Learning Program caters for all Victorian education professionals supporting deaf and hard of hearing students across a range of educational settings as well as those supporting deaf and hard of hearing students with additional needs.

Facilitated by leading academics and practitioners, 2012 topics will include language and literacy development, innovation and technology, inclusive learning strategies, research, wellbeing and engagement, and mentoring. The series has been based on input from the sector and we appreciate your ongoing feedback about topics.

The VDEI Masterclasses are an excellent way to: extend your professional knowledge; discuss the issues with key experts; and to network with other professionals.

Speech and language enrichment

VDEI presented ELKLAN speech and literacy support workshops to educational support staff who provide oral language and literacy support to deaf students on Monday 30 January 2012 and Wednesday 29 February 2012.

Presenter Helen Harrington-Johnson, experienced speech pathologist, audiologist and accredited ELKLAN trainer presented the workshops.

One of the participants, Rachel Georgesz, integration aide at St Mary’s College for Hearing Impaired Students, said: “The information I learned in this course is very relevant to the work that I am doing with the children. It gave me a clearer understanding of their hearing issues and gave me tools and strategies to better help them connect with their education and utilise the soundfield equipment more productively. As I am very new to this field, I am pleased to have had this opportunity to learn such a wealth of information at the start of this aspect of my career.”

Due to popular demand, we will be running more workshops later in the year. If you are interested in taking part, please email vdei@edumail.vic.gov.au

From language to literacy

Our workshop, ‘From language to literacy: examining outcomes for deaf and hard of hearing learners’ presented by Professor Greg Leigh scheduled for Friday 23 March 2012 has had to be postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Professor Leigh regrets having to cancel at short notice but has kindly offered to conduct two workshops later in the year. We will let you know of the new dates in due course and hope you can join us then.

 

 

 

 

Improving literacy through technology

There are a few remaining places for our ‘Improving literacy through technology’ workshop scheduled for Thursday 29 March 2012.  The workshop will be presented by Greg O’Connor of Spectronics.  Greg will speak about the use of assistive technologies to support the learning of students who face a broad range of learning challenges in school and post-school settings. For more information or to register, see: Greg O'Connor

 

 

 

Building resilience

Sign up for VDEI’s ‘Building Resilience’ workshop on Sunday 1 April.  The workshop will be presented by Paul Kallaras, a psychologist from the RIDBC, who has a particular interest in facilitating child and adolescent wellbeing, having completed his own research on the impact of socio-economic status on adolescent coping and self-concept. For more information or to register, see: Paul Kallaras

 

 

 

 

Reading and assessment

VDEI will be hosting two one-day workshops: the first, on supporting signing deaf children to read (Friday 11 May 2012); the second, on assessing the reading skills of signing deaf children (Sat 12 May 2012).  The workshops will be co-presented by Michelle Baker and Michelle Stark.  Both have a wealth of experience in sign bilingual education for staff working with deaf children.  The workshops will be held at the VDEI Learning Centre on 597 St Kilda Road. For more information of to register, see: Michelle Baker and Michelle Stark

 

 

 

 

Early intervention for children with hearing loss

Join international speakers, Dr Donald Goldberg and Dr Sharon Sandridge on 31 May and 1 June 2012 as they present a two day workshop looking at current trends for children from birth to five years old including current hearing technology, auditory assessment and functioning and creating an optimum listening environment. Dr Goldberg is a world leader in the assessment of children and adult patients who are deaf or hard of hearing. For more information or to register, see: Dr Don Goldberg: Early intervention for children with hearing impairment: from diagnostics to management

 

 

 

Adolescents’ healthy emotional development

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, one of Australia’s highest profile psychologists and author of seven books, will be providing an exciting evening presentation on the healthy emotional development of adolescents on Thursday 21 June 2012 at 7pm. The theme will be tools and strategies for engagement and communication skills for parents and professionals.

 

 

 

 

Meet Aris Goletsos

We welcome Aris Goletsos who joined the Victorian Deaf Education Institute in December 2011 as the Business Support and Research Officer. Aris provides executive assistance support to the VDEI’s Director, Gene Reardon. He also assists with the preparation and processing of the VDEI’s financial requirements and with VDEI’s research projects.

Aris has had research experience as a research assistant to the former Dean of Education at The University of Melbourne. He has a Master of Education degree from The University of Melbourne in Educational Leadership, worked at the University as an Information Technology tutor and was a computer-lab supervisor in the Faculty of Arts. Aris has also taught in various Victorian Secondary and Primary schools, the Distance Education Centre of Victoria and English Teaching Language Centres.

 

 

VDEI – silver sponsor at National Deafness summit

Gene Reardon, VDEI’s Executive Director, will be giving a presentation about the Victorian Deaf Education Institute at the upcoming 7th National Deafness Sector Summit from 27 to 29 April 2012. The theme of this year’s summit will be ‘Transformations throughout Life’. VDEI is a silver sponsor and has a trade display so please come and visit our stand! We hope to see you there. For more information, see: Deafness Forum of Australia

2011 News and events

Professional learning for educational support staff - December 2011

The VDEI in association with the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association (ASLIA Vic) have committed in 2012 to providing professional learning programs for educational support (ES) staff who provide Auslan interpretation in classrooms.

Mentoring program for educational support staff who work with signing deaf children

One of the initiatives that will be available for ES staff in 2012 is a mentoring program. This will be facilitated from a number of deaf education settings in 2012.

The mentoring program, which will be run by ASLIA Vic staff, will include the following components:

• Fortnightly contact between the allocated mentor and ES staff at each facility. This may be in person or via a video link.  It is anticipated this will occur outside of school hours.
• Filming each educational support staff member while interpreting.
• Analysis of the video recording by the mentor.
• The mentor guiding the developing of  an action plan for each staff member involved in the program focussing on strategies for improvement
• The mentor development and implementing a professional learning program based on the needs identified during video analysis.  This should occur during fortnightly contact time.
• Re-filming analysis skills and celebrating success.
• At the completion of the course, participation in a feedback process to aid with future planning.

For further information please contact Kaye Scott on scott.kaye.m@edumail.vic.gov.au or call (03) 9637 3114.

Download: Mentoring Program Flyer (PDF - 425Kb)

Workshop program for educational support (ES) staff

The Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI) has developed another new program specifically tailored for Educational Support Staff within our 2012 Professional Learning Program (PLP). VDEI has is offering two core streams within the Workshop Program for Educational Support (ES) Staff. 

ES staff will have the option to participate in either stream, as they will run concurrently and also come together at some times. Every effort has been made to run these programs over recall or pupil free days and with minimum disruption to classroom hours.

Registrations details are provided on each flyer, as they are facilitated by different providers.  

Auslan workshops for educational support staff

A second initiative which will run in parallel with the mentoring program is the presentation of the equivalent of four professional learning days to educational support (ES) staff who provide Auslan interpretation in classrooms. The content of these professional learning days was established in collaboration with ES staff, facility coordinators and principals.

This Program will be delivered in partnership with the Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association (ASLIA) Victoria’s accredited staff.

Express your interest to Michelle Ashley, ASLIA at education@asliavic.com.au. Further information can be obtained by contacting Kaye Scott at scott.kaye.m@edumail.vic.gov.au or call (03) 9637 3114.

Download: Auslan Workshops Flyer (PDF - 250Kb)

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ELKLAN speech and literacy support workshops for educational support (ES) staff

This program is an accredited ELKLAN speech and literacy support program for educational support staff who provide oral speech and language support in the classroom.

This course is suitable for ES staff assistants working with deaf and hard of hearing children aged between 5 and 11 years, but may be applicable for staff working with older students with delayed language skills. 

The program includes the following modules: defining hearing loss; communication; communication and the child with hearing loss; supporting the language and social skills of the child with hearing difficulties; and supporting the listening and phonological development of the child with hearing difficulties

This program will be delivered by Helen Harrington-Johnson, who is an experienced speech pathologist, audiologist and accredited ELKLAN trainer

Express your interest to VDEI by Wednesday 21 December 2011 to Helen Harrington-Johnson, VDEI at vdei@edumail.vic.gov.au or fax 03 9637 2030. Enquiries: please call Helen on (03) 9560 0471

Download: ELKLAN Flyer (PDF - 117Kb)

Reaching new Graduates of Education

The VDEI was invited to present in three forums within the La Trobe University Education Conference program. The conference was for students completing their Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) at its Bundoora Campus on the 2nd and 3rd of November. The forums included delivering a keynote speech, two workshops and providing information within the Conference Expo.

Two workshops were delivered to the graduates to encourage the interest in deaf educational including the importance of developing of new Teachers of the Deaf (TOD’s) and highlight the variety of roles and programs available to engage and support educational professionals working with students with a hearing loss. 

Deaf Sports Day

VDEI was delighted to support the Victorian Deaf Sports Day on 27 October 2011 by providing Auslan interpreters for the day. This is an annual event which allows approximately 300 deaf and hard of hearing children to participate in athletic events or tabloid activities. Participants were bussed to the event held at the Doncaster Athletics Track Pavilion in Rieschiecks Reserve.

The aim of the Deaf Sports Day is for primary school deaf and hard of children to participate in challenging and enjoyable athletic events with their peers.  For many of the children it is an opportunity to catch up and socialise with their deaf friends whom they rarely meet.

VDEI offered sunscreen and encouragement to the young participants, proudly wearing multiple ribbons reflecting their efforts. We also enjoyed the engagement and provided information packs about our programs and services for teaching professionals including Visiting Teachers (who coordinated the day), educational support staff, educational interpreters, parents and carers, while cheering on the participants.

The Sports day consists of a running race for all children.  The 5 – 8 year olds then participate in a tabloid sports program, while the 9 – 13 year olds compete in three different jumping and throwing events.  While the students are competing for a trophy for their school,  the focus is very much on rewarding good sports – with each school awarding a medal and trophy to the students they see displaying excellent sportsmanship skills. Each Deaf Sports Day, we all feel the warmth, friendship, sense of belonging as teachers, students and supporters pitch in and share a highly rewarding day.

Feature on captioning in the classroom in Inspire magazine

Year 11 student Pallavi Singh is profoundly deaf, wears a hearing aid and has a cochlear implant. She attends Forest Hill deaf facility which has been taking part in a real time captioning in classrooms pilot since April this year. The aim of the pilot is to improve secondary deaf students’ access to curriculum, promote full inclusion and enhance student outcomes. 

Inspire is the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's monthly publication. The magazine is distributed to all government school teachers and principals; non-teaching staff; school council members; Catholic and independent schools; early childhood professionals including kindergarten teachers and child care workers; and maternal and child health centres. The magazine has a circulation of more than 73,000 every month.

Read more on page 40 of November's Inspire magazine

VDEI Masterclass entitled ‘Pragmatic skills of school aged children with hearing loss: research outcomes and interventions’ - Deakin University, Geelong

On 14 October 2011 the Victorian Deaf Education Institute hosted an afternoon Masterclass at Deakin University’s Geelong Waterfront Campus. The session was presented by Dr Louise Paatsch - Senior Lecturer and Researcher in language and literacy at the School of Education, Deakin University - and Dr Dianne Toe - Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the development of pragmatic language skills at the University of Melbourne.

Dr Paatsch and Dr Toe examined aspects of their research on the pragmatic skills of school aged children with hearing loss: research outcomes and interventions. Effective communicators are sensitive to the unique roles of being both a speaker and a listener. These pragmatic skills are essential for building social relationships and interacting with the world.

The workshop presented the findings from a number of recent research studies conducted by the presenters. The focus was on the pragmatic skills of upper primary aged children who are deaf/HH and their hearing peers. Findings were presented related to interactions in a question/answer game, in free conversation and during an expository task.

The presenters used case studies and practical examples to examine the development of pragmatic skills. The presenters worked with participants to develop strategies for assessing pragmatic skills and ways to support students with hearing loss to use pragmatic skills more effectively.

The Masterclass was followed by a regional networking event so that professionals could discuss common issues with others in the same field.

VDEI’s presence at the Geelong Deafness Expo

On Friday 26 August 2011 the Victorian Deaf Education Institute held a stand and presented at the Geelong Deafness Expo and Information Forum at the Geelong West Town Hall.

Celebrating Hearing Awareness Week, there was an excellent balance of stand-holders present offering information, resources, hearing tests, hearing technologies, preventative hearing loss awareness campaigns, educational programs as well as social, cultural and recreational programs.

The day was well attended with a diverse mix of participants throughout the day in terms of age, interest and distance covered.  The local community members enjoyed the opportunity to engage with supporting organisations, associations and service providers. It was encouraging to meet and speak with the healthy contingent of enthusiastic and ambitious Auslan students from Kangan Institute.

Sally Martin from the VDEI team presented on behalf of Gene Reardon and spoke about the directions in deaf education in Victoria. Throughout the day there was interest in VDEI programs and opportunities in career development such as advice on how to become a teacher of the Deaf or an educational Auslan interpreter, as well as providing information on our research programs, grants, scholarships or just signing up to participate in our Professional Learning Program (PLP). 

Following the success of the day, VDEI anticipate locking in next year’s Deaf Expo and Information Forum in Melbourne into the calendar for 20^th October next year!

Meet the parents - guiding and coaching parents in early intervention and facilitating theory of mind development and conversational competency in children with hearing loss

On 11 and 12 August 2011, the Victorian Deaf Education Institute, in collaboration with the Renwick Centre, hosted a compelling two day workshop presented by Dr Teresa Caraway, Founder and President of Learning Innovation Associates, LLC, a global company dedicated to excellence in early intervention through professional learning and mentorship.

Held at the Jasper Hotel & Conference Centre on Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Dr Caraway explored two timely topics: engaging parents of deaf and hard of hearing children in the early intervention process; and facilitating Theory of Mind development and conversational competency in children with hearing loss.  

These two days opened a world of possibilities. The first day focused on the exploration of adult learning and preferred styles of learning used by parents and colleagues. The growing awareness of different learning styles enabled participants to reflect on these differences in their interactions with others.  The second day explored the Theory of the Mind and the implications for thinking and language skills. Theory of Mind relates to a person’s innate ability to sense the thoughts and feelings of another, a social reasoning ability critical to developing conversational abilities in deaf and hard of hearing children.

Over two engaging days, Teresa took professional learning to new heights by incorporating best practices in adult learning.  By actively involving participants in the learning process, Teresa ensured each participant obtained the best opportunity to integrate their learning into their knowledge base.

A Certified Auditory-Verbal Therapist, Dr. Caraway previously served as the founding President of the AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language and as Director of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, AG Bell Academy for Listening and Spoken Language, and Auditory-Verbal International (AVI). Dr. Caraway is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre, an international consultant, and skilful workshop presenter on auditory-verbal practice.

Both sessions used video excerpts and role playing to provide insights into working with adults in teaching and therapy sessions; highlighted strategies to promote greater parent involvement; and demonstrated the use of children’s literature to encourage children to become engaging conversationalists.

Deconstructing, reconstructing and managing deaf child and adolescent behaviour to enhance social, emotional and psychological well-being

Dr Andy Cornes is an international expert in the social, emotional and psychological development of deaf and hard of hearing children. His seminal work on the assessment of signing deaf children (PhD dissertation, University of Sydney) is the first examination of the types of psychological problems seen in this population in Australia.  

Andy is also a practising clinician (dually qualified as a psychologist and a systemic psychotherapist) and is in frequent demand to offer a therapeutic and systemic perspective to a wide-range of professionals to help them rethink what children’s behaviour is communicating.

On 4 and 5 of August 2011, Andy held an engaging two day professional development workshop for 90 professionals at the Jasper hotel & Conference Centre in Melbourne.  The workshop provided a theoretical framework in which to understand common and more complex problems observed by professionals working with deaf children and to offer practical advice on how to manage the behaviours (moving from an established view - pre-reflective thinking, to a more flexible informed view - post-reflective thinking). 

Topics included the socialisation of deaf children and adolescents, case examples of systemic thinking and joined up thinking, behaviour management and emotional, behavioural and psychological problems.

Andy captured the essence of recognising the child behind the hearing loss, the importance of looking at his or her skills, and finding solutions to instead of focusing on problems. Andy inspired professionals to maintain flexibility in dealing with behavioural issues and enhance their skills.  He emphasised the importance of expert collaboration, seeking professional support and supervision, and expanding the professional sector to include communication specialists.  

From a professional perspective, the importance of support services sharing information is key to a quality provision of service for the child.  Andy’s ability to share both his extensive breadth of experience working with deaf and hard of hearing students (oral and signing) and their families and his practical expertise combined with up to the minute research in such a meaningful way was invaluable.

The event was live captioned by AI-Live and Auslan interpreted.

Staying on track with deaf education

The Victorian Deaf Education Institute was a major sponsor at the 26th Australian and New Zealand Conference for Educators of the Deaf (ANZCED) 2011 conference on 15, 16 and 17 July 2011. 

The conference entitled “Staying on track with deaf education” took place at the Novotel Hotel in St Kilda and provided a comprehensive, stimulating program that had significant practical relevance for professionals and parents associated with the education of deaf and hard of hearing children. 

Gene Reardon, Executive Director of the Victorian Deaf Education Institute (VDEI) was invited to speak on "Challenges in Deaf Education: Review and Reform".  In her presentation, Gene discussed the review into deaf education along with VDEI’s formation and objectives to address the needs of deaf students as highlighted in the review. Gene’s focus included encompassing individual children, their educational options and their outcomes.

David Billimoria, Manager and Pat McGarry, Senior Project Officer from the Student Wellbeing Division of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, presented on the Ipads for learning trial in Victorian Government Schools. Both currently support the two specialist schools for the deaf participating in the iPad trial.

There were a number of excellent presentations by both Australian and overseas academics and experts who focussed on themes such as language and literacy in bilingual programs, social emotional wellbeing of students, the challenges in management of newly diagnosed infants and managing the acoustic environments in schools.

How are Victoria’s deaf and hard of hearing children doing in the 21st century? Learnings from the SCOUT, CHIVOS and HISS studies

The last two decades have seen rapid changes in detection, amplification and education approaches for deaf and hard of hearing children. Not only are these children detected earlier than ever before, but they can access far more sophisticated and varied interventions. What benefits have been reaped from these advances in terms of language, mental health, quality of life, education, and other outcomes? Have all children benefited equally? Should we be detecting and acting on milder hearing losses? Addressing these questions requires large-scale, population-based studies, such as those conducted at the Centre for Community Child Health and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute over the last two decades.

Dr Melissa Wake (pictured right) and Dr Zeffie Poulakis took a full house of 90 hearing loss professionals on a fascinating two hour journey at VDEI’s third Masterclass at the Monash University Conference Centre on Collins Street, Melbourne on 29 June 2011. 

Dr Melissa Wake is the Director of Research and Associate Director at the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) has been at the forefront of Australian research into early childhood development and behaviour for over two decades.

Dr Zeffie Poulakis is Director of the Victorian Infant Hearing Screening Program (VIHSP) at the Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health; coordinator of the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Child and Family Psychology Clinic; and Deputy Stream Leader of the Hearing Language and Literacy Stream of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.

The event was live captioned by AI-Live and Auslan interpreted.

It was inspiring to see so many practitioners interested in the current research. Participants also had the opportunity to look back over nearly 20 years at the VIHSP program and the unfolding schema of factors influencing educational outcomes.

The research takes the perspective of the child’s journey assessed longitudinally on an individual level and transposes that information onto social/academic networks which are relevant to the child. Of particular note was the importance of creating a databank of longitudinal population-based information that is not clinically biased which will help to build the framework of factors influencing intervention and have a major impact on programs.

 

The benefits and mastery of using mobile devices in education for students with special needs

On 1 June 2011, Jonathan Nalder from Queensland’s Department of Education presented the highly interactive one day conference to visiting teachers and other professionals supporting deaf and hard of hearing students in mainstream settings.

The conference, which enjoyed full attendance at the Victorian College for the Deaf in St Kilda Road, took attendees on an amazing journey of how mobile technology can transform learning.

Jonathan has a Masters of Learning Innovation from QUT, received an Innovation Award at the 2011 Learning Without Frontiers conference in the UK, is an Apple Distinguished Educator, and won a Smart Classrooms Teaching Award in 2009.

Due to demand this conference will be run again. More details will be provided shortly. 

 

The first relationship: parental adjustment to infant hearing loss

In March 2011 Professor Field Rickards, Dean, Melbourne Graduate School of Education from the University of Melbourne launched VDEI’s first Masterclass. Associate Professor Margaret Brown from the University of Melbourne presented to more than 150 professionals in deaf education on Thursday evening, 17 March 2011 at Taralye in Blackburn.

Entitled, The first relationship: Parental adjustment to infant hearing loss, Associate Professor Margaret Brown discussed a series of published studies into parent-infant interaction conducted at the University of Melbourne. Collectively, these studies challenge widely held beliefs about ways that hearing parents interact with their deaf children.

Factors under investigation included maternal scaffolding, sensitivity and responsiveness, effect of age of implantation and parental expectations.

Margaret referred to research that found that English outcomes and levels of play were lower in deaf children than in hearing children. Three theories – the Developmental Theory of Piaget, the Vygotsky Social Constructivist theory and Intuitive Parenting - guided her research.

Margaret’s conclusions were that the development of levels of play was associated with vocabulary development and that the developmental change in pretend play was similar to that of hearing children up to the point at which there is a vocabulary spurt. Margaret also found that mothers of deaf children scaffold their child’s pretend play and language through directly modelling play; what seemingly looks like maternal dominance as reported in other studies is an attempt to maintain joint attention. Futhermore, mothers of deaf children appeared to make adaptations to match their child’s development.

Margaret referred to four studies when looking at the impact of the cochlear implant: Jaskiernaik’s (2001) study of early vocal development post-cochlear implant; Dettman’s (2005) study of maternal input pre-and post-cochlear implantation; Nott’s (2006) study of rate of word acquisition post-cochlear implantation; and Abu Bakar’s (2005) study of maternal responsiveness and sensitivity pre-and-post cochlear implantation.

Community events and invitations

• Victorian College of the Deaf Open Day (PDF - 324Kb)
• Victorian College of the Deaf FJ Rose Inaugural Lecture (PDF - 281Kb)
• Victorian College of the Deaf FJ Rose Inaugural Lecture (evening) (PDF - 281Kb)