Teacher Inservice:

A First Step Toward Effective Collaboration

Karen Anderson

Time to do your fall inservices!  Get special and powerful tools to increase your general education teacher’s understanding of the needs of these students and set the stage for effective collaboration with the DHH specialist.

Target Audience: DHH Teachers, Educational Audiologists, Speech Language Pathologists

Participant Outcomes:

1. Participants will describe adult learning principles as related to communicating with teachers about their student with hearing loss
2. Participants will be able to describe inservice activities into distinct steps and provide examples of information that can be shared at each step
3. Participants will be able to access resources available to inform the classroom teacher of student issues related to hearing loss as a way to set the stage for effective collaboration

Karen Anderson may be best known for her books and practical materials, such as the SIFTER, LIFE-R, and CHILD. She is the co-author of a number of books including Building Skills for School Success in the Fast-Paced Classroom and Steps to Assessment.  Dr. Anderson has worked in clinical, public school and state-level (EHDI) settings and is Director of Supporting Success for Children with Hearing Loss. She has received national recognition awards in educational audiology, and speaks nationally and internationally.  She develops free bimonthly Update newsletters that are distributed to 11,000 subscribers.