ADVOCATING FOR AN EDUCATIONAL AUDIOLOGIST
Educational audiology service provision varies, depending on the area of the country you live in. If your school district has an educational audiologist on staff, or has a regular consultant coming to your school – great! But what if your school has never heard of educational audiology? How can you advocate to create an audiology service where one does not exist? It isn’t easy, but parent and professional advocacy makes anything possible! This training will provide #EdAudAdvocacy resources - how to advocate for services that are outside the teacher of the deaf's scope of practice.
In this training, you will learn:
1) The kind of services that an educational audiologist can provide.
2) The differences between the roles of TODs and educational audiologists.
3) The laws the support access to educational audiology.
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Presenter: Kym Meyer
Kym Meyer, an educational audiologist and certified teacher, is Director of Public School Partnerships at The Learning Center for the Deaf (TLC) in Framingham, and has been on the TLC faculty since 1994. Public School Partnerships was created in 2001, and provides educational audiology and teacher of the deaf support to students with hearing loss in public schools throughout Massachusetts. Kym is a graduate of Hofstra University, Gallaudet University and is currently a PhD candidate in Special Education at UMass-Amherst. Her dissertation research is on the Massachusetts teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing workforce. Kym has been an adjunct instructor at Bridgewater State, Boston University, and UMass-Amherst. Previous positions include work as a clinical audiologist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and teaching deaf and deaf-blind students at Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf and Helen Keller National Center in NY. Kym wouldn’t be the person she is today without her wonderful family: husband Eric, and adult daughters, who graciously put up with her never-ending-schooling.
