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• Book Making as an Effective Teaching Strategy
  Making child-specific books is a great way to encourage literacy, creativity and build bridges across parents and teachers. During the 2008 Summer Institute at the Hawaii Center for the Deaf and the Blind the Pacific Partnerships Deaf-Blind Technical Assistance Services Project participants created child-specific books based on the following assignment:
  
  Book on Target Child
  
  One of the requirements of the 2008 Pacific Deaf-Blind Summer Institute is making a book on your Target Child back home. Your book will be 10 pages long, one page for each of the numbered item outlined below. This book will be for the child’s family to share strengths, dreams, and what the child is learning. These books will be shared the last day of class.
  
  1. Name, island, age, family and friends (important people in child’s life)
  2. Where are services provided (i.e., home, school)?
  3. What are the hopes and dreams of this child/student?
  4. What are his/her strengths, likes & dislikes?
  5. What does he/she see (vision) and hear?
  6. How does the child/student move and get around (mobility)?
  7. How does the child communicate to others (expressive)?
  8. How do others communicate to the child (receptive)?
  9. How does the child/student learn best?
  10. What is the student/child learning (current IFSP/IEP Goals and Objectives)?
  
  Here are 3 samples that were created.
  
  By Tera: Osengek er a Klukuk er Ngak | My Future Through My Eye
  By Florina: Meryleen's Ideal Day at Home
  By Manzer: All About Me
  

• June 16-27, 2008
  2008 Summer Institute: Pacific Partnerships for Deaf-Blind Technical Assistance Services Project
  Hawai‘i Center for the Deaf and the Blind (HCDB), Honolulu, Hawai‘i
  This two week session will feature new teaching strategies: activities for inclusion, deaf education literacy strategies, and communication strategies. The second week will be a Practicum at the Hawai‘i Center for the Deaf and the Blind (HCDB) and in the community.
  Click here to view the announcement (PDF format)
  Click here for a copy of the Registration Form (PDF format)