The Boston Globe’s website boston.com recently featured CPSO’s Kathy Vesey in its story, “Parents get help reading to deaf children.”  Kathy is the Northeast Region Director of Gallaudet University’s Regional Centers (GURC).

An excerpt of the story:

Caleb Chris Ballentine reads to his son, Caleb, a participant in Shared Reading Saturdays, as Stephanie Lee of Verizon (left) and Kathy Vesey of Gallaudet look on. (Photo courtesy boston.com).

HELPING KIDS TO READ: One Saturday morning a month, families gather at Northern Essex Community College in Lawrence for workshops in which parents learn to read storybooks in American Sign Language to their deaf and hearing-impaired children.

Shared Reading Saturdays, a partnership between the college and Gallaudet University, is designed to encourage literacy. The Verizon Foundation recently donated $10,000 to the program.

“Since the majority of deaf children have parents who are hearing, families are challenged to find new ways to communicate with one another,’’ said Stephanie Lee, regional director of public affairs for Verizon. “The Shared Reading program gives families the tools to engage their deaf children in reading at an early age in a fun, interactive group setting.’’

To read the full story, visit boston.com here.  To learn more about the Gallaudet University Regional Centers, visit this page.

To read the full story, visit boston.com here.  To learn more about the Gallaudet University Regional Centers, visit here.

Project Management for Beginners
November 13-15 and December 4-6, 2009
(two weekends)
Venue: Gallaudet University
Washington, D.C.

Program Description

Project Management is a 3-credit course based on the philosophies, principles, and practices adopted by the Project Management Institute (PMI). As one of the fastest growing professional disciplines in North America, project management helps participants to get a firm grip on an unwieldy workload by breaking it down into manageable steps. Program content will cover the information and skills required for certification in project management by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Participants will be provided with the tools needed for preparing their organizations to support the projects they manage, including the development of a real-life project management plan for professional and/or personal implementation.

To register, click here.

Academic Bowl 2010 Regional Host Sites Announced

Midwest:
Location/Host: Oklahoma School for the Deaf Sulphur, Oklahoma
Dates: February 4 – 8 , 2010

West:
Location/Host: Utah ( site will be announced )
Dates: February 18-21, 2010

MidAtlantic/At Large:
Location/Host: New Jersey School for the Deaf Trenton, New Jersey
Dates: March 18-20, 2010

Northeast:
Location: Old Rochester Regional High School Mattapoisett, MA
Dates: March 25 – 28, 2010
Host: READS Collaborative Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Southeast: TBA

Academic Bowl 2010 Nationals Announced

The 2010 Academic Bowl national championship will take place at Gallaudet University April 24-27, 2010.

Visit ab.gallaudet.edu for more information on the Academic Bowl.

The Academic Bowl 3rd place and championship matches will be webcast live on April 27, starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT. Want to meet your webcast hostess, Allie Pucciarelli? Watch her video here.

Be sure to bookmark the live webcast page. Go to the Academic Bowl website here.

Battle of the Scholarly Sixteen: Teams Announced to Vie for 2009 Gallaudet University Academic Bowl Championship

PRESS RELEASE (APRIL 13, 2009) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallaudet University is set to host the 13th annual National Academic Bowl competition, to be held April 25-28, 2008, on Gallaudet’s campus in Washington, D.C. Sixteen teams of deaf and hard of hearing students from across the United States will be arriving on Gallaudet’s Kendall Green campus on Saturday, April 25th. The first Academic Bowl match will take place on Sunday, April 26th, at 8:00 a.m. EDT.

This year’s national finalists include:

Southeast Region
White Station High School (Memphis, Tennessee)
Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (St. Augustine, Florida)
South Plantation High School (Plantation, Florida)

Midwest Region
Indiana School for the Deaf (Indianapolis, Indiana)
Minnesota North Star Academy (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Michigan School for the Deaf (Flint, Michigan)

West Region
California School for the Deaf (Fremont, California)
Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
University High School (Irvine, California)

Mid-Atlantic/At-Large Region
Maryland School for the Deaf (Frederick, Maryland)
W.T. Woodson High School (Fairfax, Virginia)
Monroe #1 BOCES (Rochester, New York)

Northeast Region
New York State School for the Deaf (Rome, New York)
EDCO at Newton North High School (Newtonville, Massachusetts)
Rochester School for the Deaf (Rochester, New York)

New this year is the introduction of one wild card team selected to attend the nationals by winning a sudden-death 20-question quiz competition. The wild card team that will be competing at nationals is the Learning Center School for the Deaf of Framingham, Massachusetts.

Over the course of two days, each team will compete to reach the national final match, which takes place on Monday, April 27th, at 8:15 p.m. EDT. The awards ceremony will take place immediately following the championship match.

This year’s national competition will be webcast live by Gallaudet University’s media services department, beginning with the third-place match on Monday, April 27th, at 7:15 p.m. EDT. Be sure to check out all of the action on the web; bookmark the official live webcast page at ablive.gallaudet.edu.

For more information about the championship, visit the official Academic Bowl website at ab.gallaudet.edu.

About the Gallaudet University Academic Bowl

Gallaudet University established the Academic Bowl for Deaf and Hard of Hearing High School Students in 1997, with the goal of promoting academic competition among school teams. Quiz tournaments, in which teams of high school students compete against each other in local, regional, and national events, have gained wide popularity among high schools and colleges throughout the country.

At each regional Academic Bowl, teams compete against each other in answering questions on a wide variety of subjects. The first and second place winners from each of the five regions compete in the National Academic Bowl at Gallaudet University in late April.

Beginning with the 2007-2008 competition year, the Academic Bowl program is administered through the Gallaudet University College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO). To learn more about CPSO, please visit us online at cpso.gallaudet.edu.

About Gallaudet University

Gallaudet University, federally chartered in 1864, is a bilingual, diverse, multicultural institution of higher education that ensures the intellectual and professional advancement of deaf and hard of hearing individuals through American Sign Language and English. Gallaudet prepares its graduates for career opportunities in a highly competitive, technological, and rapidly changing world. Visit Gallaudet online at gallaudet.edu.

The Gallaudet Academic Bowl, coordinated by CPSO, was recently featured in the Lower Hudson Valley Journal News website. The article and video covers the BOCES team preparing for the Academic Bowl. Learn more.

For more on the Academic Bowl, including the Scholarly Sixteen finalists, go to the official site here.

A message from College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO) interim dean Joseph J. Innes:

With a broad array of academic and enrichment programs that include challenging courses for graduate or professional studies credit, leadership development, and youth programs, the College of Professional Studies and Outreach (CPSO) at Gallaudet University has something for everyone.

Located in the heart of our nation’s capital city, the University is just a few city blocks from the U.S. Capitol and some of the world’s finest museums. Gallaudet is a special place with over a century of experience providing education and enrichment programs to deaf people and individuals interested in working in deaf-owned or deaf-centric corporations, agencies, and organizations.

As you pursue your personal and/or professional goals, you will also be able to immerse yourself in the tremendous range of cultural diversity and diversity of thought that permeates our environment. In CPSO, we design and offer programs that are intended to have an impact and can be life-changing, programs that are challenging and engaging, and which are offered in a variety of formats including face-to-face, online, experiential, and hybrid. Join us in Summer 2009.

We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to our community. Once you’ve been here, we are confident you will agree that Gallaudet is a special place with talented and caring faculty and staff who are ready to serve you.

Visit Summer at Gallaudet now!

The national KODA conference, which was scheduled for July 2009 on the campus of Gallaudet, has been postponed to 2010.

To read the PDF press release, click here.

The 13th annual Gallaudet University Academic Bowl, which is coordinated by CPSO, announces its first regional competition in February 2009. Deaf and hard of hearing students from across the

Official Academic Bowl logo

United States will be vying for a chance to compete at the nationals in April 2009.

The first regional competition takes place starting February 12, 2009, at California School for the Deaf in Fremont.

For more information about the Academic Bowl, click here.

The Conference Logo

On November 14 and 15, Gallaudet University presented the conference “Making Connections: Neuropsychological Assessment and Applications with Individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.”

Hosted by the Department of Psychology, and coordinated by CPSO’s conferences and events planner Sherry Duhon, the conference was created for the purpose of bringing together professionals in the field of deafness and psychology already trained or possessing a developing interest in neuropsychological assessment and interventions.

For more information on this conference, please visit the Inside Gallaudet news story here.

(Note:  the Inside Gallaudet story was released as an “upcoming event” before the conference took place).