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  January 8, 2008 

 

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Parents Met
 
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM:
Invited Guest Speaker:
 
Kym Meyer, M.S., is a certified teacher and educational audiologist. She is the Coordinator of The Outreach Partnership Program (TOPP) at The Learning Center for Deaf Children (TLC), which provides consultation services to public schools. She has also been supervisor of the Speech, Spoken English and Educational Audiology department at TLC. Prior to working at TLC, she was the cochlear implant/rehabilitative audiologist at The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In 2003, Kym and a group of audiologists founded the Mass Educational Audiology (MEA) Task Force, and are still working toward the mission of statewide educational audiology services for all children with hearing loss and hearing disorders in public schools. Kym is working on her Ph.D. at UMASS-Amherst, focusing her research on educational audiology services in schools. She is also the mom of two elementary-aged daughters.