Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (Clerc Center)
Education Management - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (Clerc Center) Employees
Stacy Abrams
Project Manager (Early Intervention) at the Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center (Clerc Center) Details
The Clerc Center supports professionals and families through the dissemination of resources, training, and evidence-based information in the areas of professional development, family-school partnerships, and national collaborations to meet the linguistic, educational, and social-emotional needs of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth through high school.Priority AreasProfessional Development - Support the needs of professionals by addressing gaps in their knowledge and facilitating the growth of necessary skills to meet the linguistic, academic, and social-emotional development and achievement of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to 21 years of age.Family-School/Agency Partnerships - Promote the use of proactive partnerships between families and professionals at schools and/or in programs to effectively meet the linguistic, educational, and social-emotional needs of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to 21 years of age.Collaboration - Facilitate the recognition that productive collaborations among organizations at the national and state level are essential to effectively meet the linguistic, educational, and social-emotional needs of deaf and hard of hearing children from birth to 21 years of age.
