Welcome to this  webinar on Literacy Instruction for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. We are pleased that you have an interest in accessing this information. Within this site you will find seven presentations. We intend for the presentations to be watched in sequential order.

This workshop is co-sponsored by:

• Southwestern Project to Prepare Teachers of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, University of Arizona, Grant # H325K080241 U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs
• Center on Literacy and Deafness (CLAD), Grant # R24C12001 US Institute of Education Sciences

Accessing Individual Presentations: For each presentation below in the chart, you will find a link to the video. Each video runs 20-40 minutes. 

Presenter	Video
Dr. Susan Easterbrooks Georgia State University	Literacy Overview: Where We Have Been and Where We are Heading
Dr. Amy Lederberg Georgia State University	Science of Reading and How it Informs Practice with DHH Students
Dr. Carol Connor University of California-Irvine	Individualizing Literacy Instruction for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students
Dr. Brenda Schick University of Colorado at Boulder	Fingerspelling and Fingerspelling Interventions to Enhance Early Reading in DHH Students
Dr. Susan Easterbrooks Georgia State University	Developing Reading Fluency in DHH Students
Dr. Shirin Antia University of Arizona	Vocabulary Intervention for DHH Students
Dr. Susan Easterbrooks Georgia State University	Syntax and Literacy: DHH Students
Dr. Kimberly Wolbers University of Tennessee	Writing Instruction: DHH students

In Conclusion: We hope you will find that the information presented by these nationally and internationally renowned experts will provide you with new thoughts and ideas that will help you improve your literacy instruction and interactions with students who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Problems? Contact Amy Lederberg at alederberg@gsu.edu