School Panel to Tackle Ways to Integrate Deaf

A panel discussion on integrating hearing-impaired students into university classrooms will be broadcast live nationally Thursday from Cal State Northridge, university officials announced.

Entitled “Focus on Faculty: Effective Pedagogy with Students Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing,” the panel discussion will explore ways of meeting the needs of students with hearing deficiencies, said Terri Goldstein, manager of evaluation and technical assistance at CSUN’s Western Region Outreach Center & Consortia, which is organizing the event.

“We’re seeing larger numbers of deaf and hard-of-hearing students at universities,” Goldstein said. “The goal of this teleclass is to assist in educating faculty on working with these students.”

Topics to be addressed by the panel include the use of sign language, evaluating written assignments and working with visual aids, she said.

The discussion will be broadcast, via satellite, to 102 sites in 43 states, Goldstein said.

Herb Lawson, director of CSUN’s National Center on Deafness, will moderate the discussion.

Panelists will include Barbara Boyd, professor of English at CSUN; Robert Johnson, professor and dean of business and work force development at Chabot College in Hayward, Calif.; Elliott McIntire, CSUN geography professor and interim associate dean at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Elena Marshisotto, professor of mathematics at CSUN, and Maureen Rubin, professor of journalism at CSUN.

“We wanted to bring in a panel of faculty from a variety of disciplines to speak,” Goldstein said.

The discussion is open to the public and will be held at the Oviatt Library in Room 5 from noon to 2 p.m. A videotape of the proceedings will be made available after the discussion, she said.

For more information, call (888) 684-4695, or visit the Web site at https://ncod.csun.edu/.