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Deaf Education Panel
Presented by AATD SA
Wednesday 17th May 4:30 - 6:30pm (Term 2, Week 3)
Presented by AATD SA
Wednesday 17th May 4:30 - 6:30pm (Term 2, Week 3)
AATD(SA) brings together a panel experienced in various areas of Deaf Education to answer your questions about their lived experiences, perspectives, knowledge, and expertise.
Please submit questions for our panel members to address by emailing pdcommittee@aatdsa.org.au
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Jasmine Darrie is a Teacher of the Deaf and Auslan/English interpreter. With experience teaching in a primary bilingual Centre for Deaf Education. Jasmine is currently a Special Educator Hearing within Student Support Services based in Adelaide, providing an outreach model of service delivery to Pt Augusta, Whyalla and the Far North. This role involves working with Deaf / Hard of Hearing children from birth to year 12 and preschools/schools in regional and remote communities.
Jasmine is passionate about equity in access to services for all students and families, particularly access to Deaf mentors and quality Early Intervention regardless of location. As well as the importance of raising awareness that hearing screening is the first step. Success of any screening program should be measured by the outcomes that are a direct result of optimal support, accommodations and interventions. |
Jasmine Darrie
ToD / Special Educator Hearing |
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Stacey Pilmore is a paediatric Speech Pathologist and Audiologist. She has worked as a paediatric Speech Pathologist in both the private and public sectors. In 2020 Stacey completed the Master of Audiology and has worked as a paediatric Audiologist, specializing in the assessment and management of children’s ear health and Auditory Processing. Stacey is currently working as a Speech Pathologist in the Early Intervention Service Deaf/Hard of Hearing at SERU and as a Speech Pathologist in private practice. A key component of her role is to support families to provide access to language for Deaf/Hard of Hearing children and to provide strategies to promote communication development. Stacey has a passion for understanding the impacts of both persistent middle ear effusion and unilaterally lowered hearing thresholds on children’s development of language.
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Stacey Pilmore
Speech Pathologist / Audiologist |
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Emma Wright is the Mum of two children, the youngest who was born with unilateral hearing loss. Emma’s contribution to the panel discussion is primarily that of a parent with first-hand experience of learning of the hearing loss diagnosis for her newborn baby, through to navigating school and extra-curricular activities for her active 6 year old. Emma was an Elected Member of Unley council from 2018-2022, she achieved her lifelong goal of gaining a university degree, proudly graduating with a Bachelor of Communication in 2019 and in 2023 resumed her pre-parenthood career as a Mortgage Broker, a role she loves because she gets to help her clients achieve their goals.
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Emma Wright
Parent |
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Amy Geue is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf, Special Educator and Early Childhood Educator. She has worked in Deaf education for the past 15 years, including primary and secondary settings with five years in leadership. For the past two years Amy has held the role of Senior Advisor Sensory with the Inclusive teaching and Learning Directorate. As part of this role Amy has supported educators to upskill in Auslan and become teachers of the Deaf via the Masters of Disability. Over the past 18 months She has coordinated and facilitated targeted Professional development days for the Special Educators Hearing and the Early Intervention Team, as well as supported Professional learning in the ‘Fingerspelling our way to Reading’ program. Amy is passionate about inclusion, language and literacy development for Deaf and hard of hearing learners, student agency and advocating for Deaf and hard of hearing learners in all educational settings.
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Amy Geue
Senior Advisor Sensory |
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Teresa Maiolo is the Director of the Centre of Deaf Education (CDE) at Avenues College. She works both in teaching intervention classes for year 7-12 deaf students, as well as working alongside mainstream teachers in specialist subjects to ensure deaf students have access to the full range of subjects offered in the secondary setting. Since starting at Avenues CDE in 2013, Teresa has gone on to complete a Masters in Special Education (Deaf and Hard of Hearing) in 2016, as well as becoming a certified provisional Auslan interpreter. Working in the secondary space, Teresa has a special interest in areas specific to deaf adolescents such as transition planning and functional literacy intervention. Her team is currently refining a site developed literacy intervention program which focusses on developing deaf students’ overall literacy through a focus on morphological awareness. The team hope to replicate the success of the program at other sites through implementing a wider trial later this year.
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Teresa Maiolo
CDE Director |
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Claire Loades is the current president of AATD(SA). She is a qualified teacher of the deaf and has had wide and varied career in education. She has worked as a teacher in a mainstream school, in a facilities as well as being both a visiting teacher and the Manager of Visiting Teacher Services Country and the West Group of districts. Claire has been an education leader in both deaf education, mainstream and Anangu schools. She has worked as a principal on the APY Lands, in Port Augusta and the metropolitan.Claire is a native Auslan user and has a strong belief that all children who are deaf and hard of hearing have the right to the same level of service regardless of setting. She also believes that all deaf and hard of hearing children can achieve at the same levels as their hearing peers with the correct adaptations and supports in place.
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Claire Loades
former Principal |
PD Details
Date |
Wednesday 17th May (Term 2, Week 3) |
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4:30-6:30pm |
Location |
Education Development Centre 4 Milner Street, Hindmarsh |
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