FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

Publications
The Clerc Center produces a wide variety of publications for teachers, parents, and professionals
involved with education for deaf and hard of hearing students. All publications are available on the Clerc
Center Web site, and many are also available in hard copy by request at no cost.
Sharing Ideas. The Sharing Ideas series comprises working papers—both online and in
print—of interest to parents and teachers of deaf and hard of hearing children, researchers, school
administrators, support service personnel, and policy makers. The intent of the series is to act as a
clearinghouse for sharing information from a number of sources. The common focus is to improve
the quality of education for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
During FY 2008, the Sharing Ideas series contained 12 titles:
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• A First Language: Whose Choice Is It?
• Becoming Bilingual: Facilitating English Literacy Development Using ASL in Preschool
• Cochlear Implants and Sign Language: Putting It All Together (Identifying Effective Practices for
Educational Settings) Conference Proceedings
• Community Building: A Positive Approach to Discipline in Schools
• Creating a Multicultural School Climate for Deaf Children and Their Families
• Deaf Education Today: A State of Emergency
• Family-School Relationships: Concepts and Premises
• Planning for Literacy: Guidelines for Instruction
• Speechreading in Context: A Guide for Practice in Everyday Settings
• Student Life in the New Millennium: Empowering Education for Deaf Students
• Transition Planning and Programming: Empowerment Through Partnership
• Where Does Speech Fit In? Spoken English in a Bilingual Context
The 12 titles received a total of 51,163 hits on the Sharing Ideas Web site; 2,358 copies of
these titles were distributed in print; and 6,012 were downloaded as complete PDF files.
Sharing Results. Sharing Results is a series of occasional papers—both online and in
print—that describes the results of work undertaken by the Clerc Center in its three priority areas:
literacy, family involvement, and transition from school to postsecondary education and
employment. Each paper’s focus is determined through an extensive public input process with
parents, educators, service providers, and researchers throughout the country. The Sharing Results
series includes three kinds of papers:
• Descriptions of critical needs in the Clerc Center’s priority areas and the processes used
to identify those needs
• Descriptions of the results of collaborations between the Clerc Center and other schools
and programs to develop and implement innovative approaches to some of the
persistent challenges within the Clerc Center priority areas
• Extensive evaluation of selected innovations to provide information to help program
planners determine whether an innovation would be appropriate for their program
During FY 2008, the online Sharing Results library contained five documents (one of which
is available in Spanish):
• A Look at the Decisions Hispanic Families Make After the Diagnosis of Deafness (also available in
Spanish: Un Estudio sobre las Decisiones que Toman las Familias Hispanas Después de un
Diagnóstico de Sordera)