Why Partners in Leadership Academy for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Developed

Partners in LADHH is an resourceful, adequacy-based leadership training program for adults with hearing loss and parents of young children with the hearing loss.

Goal:

  • Educate participants to be active partners in making positive changes

Action:

  • Train participants in best practices over a wide range of issues and
  • Help them acquire the skills necessary to change systems.

Outcome:

  • Become partners in team leadership
  • Create a shared vision, enlarging the power base of rights advocates
  • Become proficient to change their own lives
  • Work for changes that will affect others with hearing loss at local, state, & national levels
  • Are expected to be agents of long term change
  • Learn there are no “quick fixes”
  • Are trained to achieve long term successess

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