DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING CIG

CAPED Interest Group

What is the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing CIG?

The Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing CIG is a special interest group within the CAPED organization. The purpose of this special interest group is to facilitate the exchange of information among personnel providing services for students who are d/Deaf/hard-of-hearing in the post-secondary educational setting.

Over the past few years, we have been meeting at the CAPED conference in the Fall, as well as at other regional and national conferences. Our members are directors, faculty and staff at community colleges and four-year institutions throughout California. We welcome anyone who provides services to students who are d/Deaf, late deafened, deaf-blind, or hard-of-hearing, and to anyone who is interested in learning more about this population. Generalists/counselors who have only a few d/Deaf or hard-of-hearing students on their case loads are strongly encouraged to attend meetings and get involved.

• ADARA
  (Professionals Networking for Excellence in Service Delivery with Individuals who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing). A national association, which promotes quality human service delivery to Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals.
• COMTEK
  COMTEK is an Assistive Listening Device Dealer located at 357 West 2700 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115; (801) 466-3463
• CCMaker (www.ccmaker.com)
  A Maryland-based captioning firm that does captioning for videotapes, DVDs, and streaming videos.
• Harris Communications (www.harriscomm.com)
  One of the leading distributors of visual signalers, TTYs, amplified telephones, and novelty items for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing.
• National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
  National Deaf community organization
• National Center on Deafness (at California State University, Northridge)
  A great resource for information for deaf and hard-of-hearing service providers at the post-secondary level.
• Northeast Technical Assistance Center
  Rochester Institute of Technology, NTID Resource for NETAC Teacher Tip sheets. They are located at 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604 (716) 475-6433 V/TTY
• OhSoEZ.com
  A website with resources for the Deaf community.
• Phonic Ear (www.phonicear.com)
  Phonic Ear is one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of assistive listening devices located throughout the U.S and the world.
• Postsecondary Education Programs Network
  This is the national collaboration of the four Regional Postsecondary Education Centers for Individuals who are Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing. They have an excellent online, interactive, training module for faculty and staff.
• QuickCaption (www.quickcaption.com)
  A Southern California provider of various captioning services, ranging from remote captioning services to streaming video captioning.
• RapidText
  Sells captioning equipment and offers remote captioning. 1801 Dove Street, Suite 101, Newport Beach, California 92660; (949) 399-9200
• Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (RID)
  It is the largest and most recognized organization that certifies sign language interpreters.
• Ultech (www.ultech.com)
  Sells captioning equipment and software products for video and webcast captioning. 1255 Middlebury Road , Middlebury , CT 06762; (888) 360-0010.
• PEPNet-West
  National Center on eafness18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330-8267(888) 684.4695 V/TTY- Toll Free, www.pepnet.org

Northern Co-Chair
Todd Higgins
Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Specialist
San Francisco State University
415-338-2522 (TTY/VP)
415-338-1041 fax
toddh@sfsu.edu

Southern Co-Chair
Monica Collins
Deaf & Hard-of-Hearing Services Coordinator
Santa Ana College
(714) 564-6223
Collins_Monica@sac.edu

Naomi Sheneman
Interpreting Services Coordinator
San Diego Community College District
(619) 388-2695 (TTY/VP)
(614) 388-6534 fax
nshenema@sdccd.edu

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