January 8, 2008
Present: Kym Meyer, Chair (ASHA), Rachel Friedman Narr (CED), Lawrence Fleishcher (CED), Lorrie Robin Gaschler (ASHA), Ginger Jones (ASHA), Linda Charlebois (ASHA), Gwendolyn Wilson (Monitoring VP), Anne Oyler, ex-officio.
Absent: Steve Nodar
1. Kym welcomed everyone to the meeting and provided an opportunity for each person to introduce themselves.
2. Minutes from the July, 2007 face-to-face meeting were reviewed and accepted with minor revisions.
3. The committee reviewed the Strategic Plan (2007-2010) and discussed progress made in several action items.
Focus Area: Document/ Resource Development
Strategy – (Document describing the evidence-base related to the impact of visual language on the development of spoken language) Anne reported that this question, which was posed in the July 2007 face-to-face meeting, has been submitted to the National Center for Evidenced-based Practice (NCEP).
Focus Area: Committee Operations/Organization
Strategy 1 – (Repository of ASHA-CED Documents and Resources by January 1, 2008) Anne has pulled together hard copies of past minutes, agendas, rosters, strategic plans and documents. This repository of information can be used to assist in orienting incoming committee chairs and will be brought to the face-to-face meetings. If the committee is successful in developing a Web page, this repository will no longer be necessary.
Strategy 2 – (Operational procedures and committee procedures manual by January 1, 2008) Anne has drafted Operational Guidelines specific to the ASHA CED committee. After input from Kym and Gwen, they will be forwarded to the entire committee for comments and suggestions.
Strategy 3 – (Plan for Dissemination of documents and other materials by July 1, 2008) The committee discussed ideas for dissemination of documents. These ideas included, creation of an ASHA CED Web page, linking to Deafed.net, e-mail blasts to ASHA and CED members, posting information to listservs such as EAA, and SLPDeaf, placing notification and links to documents into various newletters, including EAA, CEC, and ASHA Special Interest Divisions newsletters (i.e. Divisions 6, 9 and 16).
Strategy 4 – (Determine the feasibility of the Committee establishing its own Web page by October 1, 2008) Anne will be meeting with an ASHA Web team staff member on January 18th to discuss the development of a Joint Committee Web page that will be accessible to all members. It is important that this be housed on the ASHA Web site so that it is easier for the ex-officio to maintain.
Focus Area: Collaboration
Strategy – (By March 1, 2008, the Chair of the committee will have contacted other associations/organizations [e.g. Center for ASL/English Bilingual Education Research, EAA and ASHA Offices of Multicultural Affairs and the ASHA Schools Finance Committee] to determine the feasibility of initiating collaborative projects related to deaf/hard of hearing people.) Kym will explore the possibility of linking to and from the EAA Web site.
4. The committee discussed the status of the document, Services Provision for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing- Birth to 36 Months. Rachel Narr or Larry Fleischer will follow-up with CED and determine when we can expect to have this document back with comments.
5. The committee has agreed to meet at California State University at Northridge for its next annual face-to-face meeting. Tentative dates were selected and the group will try to determine the most feasible meeting time through e-mail.