Statewide

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  • Learn how to plan effective auditory activities that make up a session.
  • Learn how to use a conversational approach in your activities.
  • Learn how to achieve multiple objectives with a single activity.
  • Learn how to set up auditory routines to focus on listening and spoken language.
  • Learn how to use different types of activities for different auditory objectives.
  • Earn ASHA CEUs!

Presenter: Pratibha Srinivasan, Au.D., CCC-A, LSLS-Cert.AVT

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Time:  10:00am til 11:00am Social Hour, 11:00am til 11:45am Lunch, 12:00pm til 2:00pm Meeting 

Lunch:  Pot Luck- bring vegetable dishes and desserts.  Meat will be furnished (probably ham).  Recommend that dishes that must be heated, be microwavable. 

Meeting Program:  Guest Speaker, Tricia Griggs, Disability Law & Advocacy Center. Topic to be announced at the meeting.

Interpreting services:  Interpreters provided for the meeting.  

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Helen Keller National Center, Senior Adult Services, is pleased to announce the dates for the 2014 Confident Living Programs on

April 6-11, 2014. (Cut-off date to receive completed forms: Monday March 10.)

and

October 19-24, 2014 (Cut-off date to receive completed forms: Monday, Sept. 15.)

These one-week programs are specially designed for Senior Adults (age 55 and better), who are hard of hearing and blind or visually impaired, and do not use sign language as their primary means of communication

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This workshop will explore the prosodic properties of spoken language and how they impact the accuracy of voice interpretations. Participants will experience the manipulation of these properties in order to understand the changes in meaning that can occur with even minor fluctuations. Prosodic features that will be explored include: pauses, lengthening of vowels, tempo, volume, pitch, and more. The goal of this training is to provide specific strategies interpreters can immediately incorporate into their work to create interpretations that sound natural to the listener. 

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This workshop will challenge interpreters to focus on details in their work that hinder conceptual accuracy, such as production errors and palm orientation. We will delve into specifics elements of ASL prosodic structure such as cheek puffing, changes in eye opening, and head movement which are used to indicate nuances in meaning and emotion. We will explore the difference between Expansion and Explanation. We will discuss strategies for properly employing Expansion and Compression at work.

This workshop is worth .35 CEUs.  

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The HLAA Walk4Hearing takes place in 21 cities nationwide. With thousands of walkers representing so many people, we are raising awareness for hearing loss.

This is a kickoff on March 29th for Chattanooga's Walk 4 Hearing.  

Attention Walkers! Remember to bring your smart phones with you to the Walk because we will be streaming live CART to web-enabled smart phones. All pre-Walk speeches will be captioned on your iPhone, BlackBerry*, or Droid.

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I am reaching out to invite you to the first meeting of the Tennessee Council for the Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and Hard of Hearing. The meeting will be held on Friday, Feb. 7 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. at Bridges, 935 Edgehill Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Sign language interpreters and CART will be provided for both those on the council and those visitors in attendance. If there should be any questions about the meeting, please contact Thom Roberts, Interim Executive Director of the Tennessee Council for the Deaf Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing.