CAEBER Resources

CAEBER's main mission is to foster educational leadership, as well as provide collaborative opportunities for educators that implement and administer ASL/English bilingual professional development utilizing effective language planning strategies. CAEBER empowers educators to better support deaf and hard-of-hearing learners through:

• professional development opportunities for educational staff and administrators;
• promotion of the acquisition, development, and use of both ASL and English for academic purposes for deaf and hard-of-hearing learners and their educational staff and parents;
• training for educational staff in the effective use of ASL and English as languages of instruction in educational settings;
• development of appropriate bilingual instructional design integrating innovative technology; and
• promotion of an understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

In addition to engaging in ongoing research and development of ASL/English bilingual education, a key component of CAEBER's mission is to provide professional development opportunities for program participants.

CAEBER also hosts biennial conferences bringing together educational leaders and researchers, state and federal policymakers, college/university professors, and CAEBER mentors and administrators from schools for the deaf throughout the country. For more information about professional development opportunities, CAEBER conferences and for highlights from the 2005 CAEBER Conference, click on the links below.

CAEBER has also developed the following products to train inservice and preservice teachers:

• A two-year professional development program designed for schools for the deaf that imparts knowledge and skills in ASL/English bilingual teaching theories and practices.
• A two-year, four-level professional development curriculum designed for schools for the deaf that imparts knowledge and skills in ASL/English bilingual teaching theories and practices.
• A three-semester college curriculum that incorporates both online and in-class features, to be used by teacher-educators at university deaf education teacher preparation programs to prepare preservice teachers in ASL/English bilingual instruction theories and techniques.

CAEBER also trains mentors to facilitate the inservice and preservice training at their educational sites through the following services offered at the Gallaudet University:

• Two-week summer intensive mentor training sessions that prepare mentors (over two summers) to facilitate and impart the ASL/English Bilingual Professional Development package at their own school site, and
• Fall and winter mentor meetings to review progress and support the mentors in their delivery and dissemination of the professional development package.