Our program team members include certified teachers of the deaf, certified speech and language pathologists, an auditory training specialist, paraprofessional support staff members, an educational audiologist consultant, and ongoing collaboration with our community partners at the Medical College of Wisconsin/Children's Hospital and consult with private auditory verbal therapists.
The late Dr. Daniel Ling with Karen Brown and Mary Duncan at the Auditory
Verbal International Conference in Baltimore, MD July 2003.
To insure quality auditory-oral programming for our children our team members:
- attended a short course on auditory-oral programming through the University of Wisconsin by Ruth Reeder, CCC-A, MCW/CH
- attended short courses held at the Moog School in St. Louis on Aural Rehabilitation for Children with Cochlear Implants and Spoken Language Development
- attended a mainstreaming workshop and monitoring FM systems in regular education classes by Valerie Frigo, national mainstreaming consultant and Karen Stein
- attended Carol Flexer's short course on FM systems
- attended short courses, presented and participated in the National Alexander Graham Bell Biennial Convention
- sent two program representatives to the Auditory Verbal International Conference in Baltimore, MD
- attended the American Speech, Hearing and Language Association's National Convention and short courses in Cochlear Implant Aural Rehabilitation
- attended Advanced Bionics short courses on Aural Rehabilitation for three consecutive years
- observed quality public school auditory-oral programming in Redford, MI, Rockville, MD and in Falls Church, VA, Summit, NJ and private options programs at Child's Voice and the Moog School in St. Louis
- attended Dr. Charles Berlin's two day seminar at UW Madison on Auditory Neuropathy
- participated in the week long family-child Institute on Aural Rehabilitation: A Collaborative Model for Intervention held at UW-Madison
- participated as a Program Assistance Project Site in the national Public School Caucus program through AG Bell for two years
- attended the workshop "Teaching Children to Listen and Speak: A Workshop on Auditory Verbal Therapy" with certified auditory verbal therapist, Ellen Rhoades
- auditory-oral educator attended the six week National Educational Consultant Training Program in Philadelphia, PA at Children's Hospital
- sent three staff members to attend the Moog Workshop on "Accelerating Spoken Language Acquisition" in St. Louis
- participated in the 10th Annual Cochlear Implant Symposium in Dallas, Texas gaining up to date knowledge about new advances in cochlear implant technology and research in aural rehabilitation
- attended AG Bell's Public School Caucus Annual Symposium in Orlando, Florida visiting an auditory-oral program and attending short courses by Carol Flexer, CCC-A, Lynn Roberston, and Denise Wray
- presented at the statewide Wisconsin Speech and Language Pathologists annual convention with members of the Koss Cochlear Implant Team on "A TEAM Approach to Aural Rehabilitation."
- an individual staff member completed North Carolina's FIRST YEARS Project
- presented at the AG Bell 2008 National Convention "A Public School Story: Growth and Development of an Auditory Oral Program"
- presented at the ASHA 2008 convention in Chicago, Illinois with community service providers from Medical College of Wisconsin-Children's Hospital
- presenters at the 12th International Cochlear Implants in Children Symposium in Seattle, Washington
Auditory-Oral Program Team Members:
TEACHERS OF THE DEAF:
Karen Knopf kbrown@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Barb Nagy bnagy@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Sheila Petasek spetasek@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Nancy Wegner nwegner.@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Debbie Schrader dschrade@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Tammy Donaldson tdonalds@waukesha.k12.wi.us
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS:
Kelli Weiss-Golatke kweissg@waukesha.k12.wi.us
Bonnie Grabowski bgrabow@waukesha.k12.wi.us
