by Paige Stringer | Mar 7, 2013 | audiology, deaf education, developing countries, early intervention, inclusive education, US Consulate Vietnam
Thuy and I are visiting schools across the South that are enrolled in our Vietnam Deaf Education Program. Our first stop was an early intervention and day school program in Dong Nai province. All the teachers of the deaf who work here are enrolled in our...
by Paige Stringer | Feb 28, 2013 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, global foundation, hearing loss, inclusive education, teacher training, US Consulate Vietnam, Vietnam
The Global Foundation team completed its third Mobile Mission at the end of January 2013. It was another successful endeavor. Here are the highlights….We spent a week at Children’s Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City. This was our second Mobile Mission at CH1 and...
by Paige Stringer | Jan 17, 2013 | audiology, deaf education, developing countries, global foundation, hearing loss, teacher training, Vietnam
Tonight we had a Parent Workshop for about 30 local parents of children with hearing loss. We started the night with a video captured earlier in the day of a former student of Thuan An Center. He was born with a hearing loss and wears two hearing aids but has been...
by Paige Stringer | Jan 15, 2013 | audiology, deaf education, developing countries, early intervention, global foundation, hearing loss, inclusive education, nonprofit, speech pathology, teacher training, technology, Vietnam
We’re spending the week at Thuan An Center, an early intervention and school program for children with hearing loss located in a semi-rural community outside of Ho Chi Minh City. Thuan An Center is the Global Foundation’s partner in Vietnam and the host of...
by Paige Stringer | Jan 10, 2013 | audiology, developing countries, early intervention, global foundation, hearing loss, inclusive education, speech pathology, teacher training, Vietnam
Here’s the feel-good story of our training program in Ho Chi Minh City – just one amongst many, really. There is a 3 year old boy whose family and therapist have traveled from Hanoi to spend the week in our workshop. The...
by Paige Stringer | Jan 9, 2013 | audiology, developing countries, ENT, global foundation, hearing loss, Vietnam
Children’s Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City is one of the busiest pediatric hospitals in Vietnam. Over 7,000 children pour through the gates each day and as both parents usually accompany them, the volume of human traffic here is comparable to...
