Chair: Carmel Collum Yarger, Ed.D.

What is the Committee on Deaf and Hard of Hearing, and how does it relate to the overall Division?
The primary purpose of DCDD is to promote the welfare, development, and education of infants, toddlers, children and youth with communicative disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Committee on Deaf and Hard of Hearing recognizes that students with hearing losses are educated in a variety of environments and through a variety of approaches. The purpose of this committee is to act as a venue for teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing, their families, and deaf or hard of hearing individuals themselves to gather and discuss the challenges that they encounter on a daily basis. This committee encourages a closer examination of such challenges as access to the general education curriculum, sensitivity to diversity within the population, and a careful understanding of medical and technological advances, among others. It also serves as a forum for proposed solutions.

The committee seeks to connect teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing from across the country with one another so that their concerns may be heard by the broader educationcommunity.

What Can I Do?
The Committee is in the process of identifying points of contact within each state who are willing to act as a conduit of information regarding the Committee to other educators of the deaf and hard of hearing in their states. If you are interested in becoming an active member of the Committee, please contact me (see below). I encourage you to consider joining this committee. DCDD is a place where teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing can come together to affirm as well as to challenge one another as we strive to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing students.

Where Can I Get More Information?
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
http://www.nih.gov/

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/

National Center for Hearing Assessment & Management (NCHAM)
http://www.infanthearing.org/

National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dd/ddhi.htm/

Carmel Collum Yarger, Chair

For More Information, Contact

Carmel Collum Yarger
Utah State University
Dept of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Ed
1000 Old Main
Logan, UT 84322-1000
435/797-1304 (O)
carmel.yarger@usu.edu