Daniels Fund grants $100,000 to UNC project for deaf children

[Miss-Delectable]

Daniels Fund grants $100,000 to UNC project for deaf children | GreeleyTribune.com

Two professors at the University of Northern Colorado were awarded a $100,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to create an on-campus clinic that will provide care and support for children who are deaf and their families, according to a press release from UNC.

The clinic will be overseen by Julie Hanks and Tina Stoody in UNC’s College of Natural and Health Sciences. The clinic will focus on children with cochlear implants, surgically-placed devices that enable sounds to be heard.

Hanks and Stoody co-teach courses in aural rehabilitation and cochlear implants.

According to the release, Stoody worked with children and adults with cochlear implants during her graduate training at Washington University in St. Louis. Hanks has been a certified speech-language pathologist for more than 20 years. Her areas of professional study include cochlear implants, speech production of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and evidence-based practice and clinical methods.

 

[jillio]

Daniels Fund grants $100,000 to UNC project for deaf children | GreeleyTribune.com

Two professors at the University of Northern Colorado were awarded a $100,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to create an on-campus clinic that will provide care and support for children who are deaf and their families, according to a press release from UNC.

The clinic will be overseen by Julie Hanks and Tina Stoody in UNC’s College of Natural and Health Sciences. The clinic will focus on children with cochlear implants, surgically-placed devices that enable sounds to be heard.

Hanks and Stoody co-teach courses in aural rehabilitation and cochlear implants.

According to the release, Stoody worked with children and adults with cochlear implants during her graduate training at Washington University in St. Louis. Hanks has been a certified speech-language pathologist for more than 20 years. Her areas of professional study include cochlear implants, speech production of children who are deaf or hard of hearing, and evidence-based practice and clinical methods.

Hmmm....rather restrictive and exclusionary, don't you think? Children with HA need early intervention, as well.

 

[deafdyke]

jillo, CIs are where the money is. It's a guanteed moneymaker. Just really pisses me off.............there are a lot of deaf kids who are functionally hoh with HAs too!

 

[jillio]

jillo, CIs are where the money is. It's a guanteed moneymaker. Just really pisses me off.............there are a lot of deaf kids who are functionally hoh with HAs too!

Exactly. The concern is not for all deaf children who need early intervention but only for those with CI. Just a nother form of subtle cooercion from the audists. If they were truly concerned with aural rehabilitation for the deaf child, they would be opening a clinic to serve all deaf children, and not jsut those with CI.

Reminds me of the days when water fountains were marked "White Only" and "Colored Only".