Continuing Education

ICODA’s program in Continuing Education is designed to share, inform and empower the various professionals working with children with hearing loss by sharing the latest advancements in the field.  ICODA has a history of working with partnerships and professional associates to enhance the quality and benefit of courses taught for University or Continuing Education credit for workshops and seminars.  Past activities included four graduate level courses with practicum leading to a specialized certificate approved by Early Intervention to train Early Intervention Developmental Therapists to work with infants who are deaf with cochlear implants.  Students included teachers of the deaf, audiologists, speech pathologists and social workers.  The course was available for four years and trained over 40 therapists.

ICODA recently completed its first webinar series entitled:

Shifting Paradigms: Using Science Based Strategies to Teach Complex Children with Hearing Loss in the 21st Century

Staff and Associates who presented in this series include:

Lucasz Konopka, PhD. – Neuroscientist

Tracy Meehan, M.S. – Educational Consultant

Patricia Scherer, PhD. – Educational Diagnostician

Barbara T. Doyle, M.S. – Clinical Consultant

This first series of Webinars will be followed by others throughout the year and will include topics such as: Autism and Deafness, Executive Function Disorders, Music, and Arts Appreciation in Deaf Education.