Higher Education and Medicine

 

DeafDOC.org offers a variety of educational programs for healthcare providers.  Whether you have Deaf or Hard of Hearing patients or consumers, or even if you have never met a Deaf person, these workshops are for you!

Training and workshops can be tailored to fit your organization, educational institution, agency or group.


Formats include but are not limited to:

  • Grand Rounds
  • Continuing Medical Education
  • Lectures and Presentations
  • Round Table Discussions
  • Keynote Address
  • Panel Discussions

 

Sample Topics:

 

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

  • The Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504, Human Rights Act of 1973 and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and CME
  • Make Your Continuing Medical Education Conference Accessible to All

Healthcare Organizations, Practices and Medical Education

  • Healthcare
  • Healthcare and the Deaf/Hard of Hearing Patient: Case Studies: A Public Health Issue
  • Community Oriented Primary Care and the Deaf/HOH Community
  • Diversity:  Deaf and Hard of Hearing...A Linguistic Minority
  • Research and the Deaf/HOH Community
  • CODA, KODA, ALDA, Deaf, HOH...What Do They Mean?
  • Myths and Reality:  The Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
  • English Versus American Sign Language: Deaf Culture
  • Healthcare and the Deaf Post-Secondary Student: Observations and Educational Impact
  • Obesity and Your Student

Communicating and Working with your Deaf or Hard of Hearing Client

  • Practice Survival and Cost Effective Practice: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Patients and Consumers
  • The Baby is Deaf?  What Do I Do?  Early Intervention
  • Deaf Parents, Hearing Children and Hearing Parents, Deaf Children:  Medical Challenges
  • Interpreters/Technology
  • Working with Interpreters: Part of the Medical Team!
  • Practice Pointers: Set Up Your Organization to work with Language Interpreters (i.e. ASL) and Technology
  • Evaluation of Interpreters in the Medical Setting
  • Improve Medical Care and Access for Deaf with Technology
  • Assistive Listening Devices and Other Technology
  • E-Health and the Deaf/HOH community
  • The Deaf/Hard of Hearing community and the 21st century

Your Practice


Our goal is to provide timely, practical information in a neutral environment.  We arm you with information, ideas, and tips to help you build better relationships with clients as well as language interpreters toward improving healthcare and literacy in a significant linguistic minority group.  You will be more satisfied and relaxed when communicating with your Deaf & hard of hearing clients; and you will have more patient satisfaction!

Please feel free to contact us with any questions.  We look forward to hearing from you!
 

Our most recent links:
1 Oh! My Aching Joints: How to Beat Back Pain!
2 E-Health & the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community
3 2001 Colorado Symposium on Deafness, Language, and Learning
4 Obesity and Your Students
5 Understanding The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)