August 6, 2025
Join us for a virtual event on August 6, 2025! Anyone in the field of Deaf Education in PA is invited! This is a great opportunity to meet others in our field to share experiences, ideas, resources and discuss hot topics. A $50 registration fee includes a full day workshop, interpreters and Act 48 credit.
Registration for the 2025 Workshop event:
https://forms.gle/udxuFNKcoPdpgAf3A
HELIX is now BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE TO KNOW HOW: Empowering Pennsylvania Educators and Partners. The Conference has moved to the Summer, but it is still being hosted at State College. Click the link to find out more!
https://www.pattan.net/Training/Conferences/BRIDGING-KNOWLEDGE-TO-KNOW-HOW
A Quick Overview of THE PENNSYLVANIA EXPANDED CORE COMPETENCIES for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This curriculum & its resource documents were developed in the state of Iowa (revised in 2013). Its purpose is to define skills & knowledge that students with hearing loss often miss if only exposed to the general ed curriculum. Many of these skills are acquired by hearing students through incidental learning, whereas our students often need direct instruction in these same areas, by a ToD. The PA-ECC-DHH is a great starting point to show the IEP team specifically how DHH support has a different focus than learning support and other related services. Something to celebrate indeed! PESDHH has developed an in-depth study of the PA-ECC-DHH that can be presented to groups of teachers, either face-to face or virtually. If you are interested, please contact:
Barb Chubb at barbarachubb@ymail.com
Pennsylvania Educators of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (PESDHH) is a grass roots organization of teachers and other educational professionals serving students across PA, who are deaf or hard of hearing. Through continuing education of service providers and decision makers along with advocacy and collaboration, our mission is to ensure that all students with hearing loss have appropriate, quality services delivered by highly qualified personnel, regardless of their geographic location.
It is also our mission that these highly qualified providers have the necessary supports to continually improve services to Deaf and hard of hearing students so the students can thrive and reach their maximum potential as individuals.