TCU hosts expert on Latino deaf/hard of hearing students
Fort Worth, TX
3/6/2008
TCU’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is hosting a Green Honors Chair speaker, Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia, on Thursday, March 27 from 3-5 p.m. at the Palko Building Lecture Hall, room 130, located on Bellaire Drive North on the TCU campus. Dr. Garcia’s lecture will be on “Teaching Latino Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students: Identifying and Meeting Unique Learning Needs.”
Dr. Garcia will also give another public lecture on Wednesday, March 26 from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Sid Richardson Sciences Building, Lecture Hall 2, 2955 S. University Drive on the TCU campus. Her speech topic will be on “Supporting Your Deaf Child.”
Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia, professor and chair of the Department of Educational Foundations and Research, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, teaches Multicultural Foundations of Education, as well as an online course, Teaching Latino Deaf Students. Her experience in multicultural issues includes 17 years as a teacher of the deaf in the Boston public schools, where she implemented and taught in a trilingual program for Latino deaf children. She has numerous publications, research, and presentations, as well as workshops on multicultural issues, and extensive involvement in local and national organizations dealing with multicultural education. She holds degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Boston University. In addition to English and ASL, she is fluent in Spanish, has advanced knowledge of Portuguese, and knowledge of several other languages.
The events are free and open to the public. Services provided: CART, sign language interpreter and a Spanish translator; childcare services will not be provided. For more information, call 817-257-7620.
