California Family Resource Centers | Michael D. Eisner College of Education | Department of Special Education | Deaf Studies Department | National Center on Deafness
March 5 & 6, 2012, St. Louis, MO
Cultural Competence and Sharing Your Culture
Apryl Chauhan, Irma Sanchez, & Nancy Grosz Sager
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to define cultural competence and cultural responsiveness.
2. Participants will have various tools for measuring and assessing their own levels of cultural competence and responsiveness.
3. Participants will be able to name various ways in which families can share their own cultures with their children.
4. Participants will be able to name strategies that families can use to help their children develop confidence and pride in themselves as individuals who are Deaf.
Looking Back- If Knew Then What I Know Now
Kat Lowrance & Darla Schwehr
Parents and professionals will have a better understanding of the systems of support available to them and parents will get a better understanding of the process of making decisions regarding their child’s life and their outcomes and how they can contribute to positive change.
March 16 & 17, 2012 Delaware School for the Deaf, Newark, DE
March 29 & 30, 2012, Garden Grove, CA
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