Florida Summit on Childhood Deafness 

Announcing an opportunity for families and professionals who have or support children who are deaf or hard of hearing ages 0-22 

This conference combines the resources of Florida groups related to deafness and offers one joint conference with a focus on children who are deaf or hard of hearing ages 0-22 and their families. 

The mission of the Florida Summit on Childhood Deafness is to bring together those working in the field of childhood deafness  ages birth through twenty two (22) in order to provide an inclusive forum for exchange of information, closer collaborations, and opportunities for building shared support systems for Florida’s children and families.

 Those who attend will include: teachers, parents, caregivers, speech pathologists, educational audiologists, program administrators, students, early interventionists, physicians, other related service providers, nurses, and other interested parties.

 By combining the conferences of the representative groups, families and professionals will be together in one forum, reducing the financial and time demands of multiple conferences on the exhibitors, the participants, and state agencies and school districts.

The planning committee includes representatives from:

• Florida Educators of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals (FEHI),
• Resource Materials & Technology Center for the Deaf/HH (RMTC)
• AGBell-Florida,
• Florida Speech and Hearing Association (FLASHA),
• Florida Dept. of Ed Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services (BEESS)
• Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB)
• Florida Department of Health – Children’s Medical Services/Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI),
• University of Central Florida (UCF),
• Florida Hands & Voices
• University of North Florida (UNF),
• Flagler College,
• Educational Interpreter Project (EIP)  

Call for Papers

The 2012 Florida Summit on Childhood Deafness is seeking proposals in the following strands:

• Curriculum and Instruction
• Hearing and Health Systems
• Language Development
• Other Support Services
• Parenting and/or Birth - Age 5 

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Sponsors and Exhibitor Information 

If you would like to be a sponsor or exhbiitor at the 2012 Florida Summit on Childhood Deafness [click here] for more information.