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UOG professor selected as Fulbright specialist
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Posted on Aug 08 2011
Richard Fee, PhD, associate professor of Special Education, School of Education at the University of Guam was accepted to the Fulbright specialist candidate roster by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. The Roster is a list of all approved candidates who are eligible to be matched with incoming program requests from overseas academic institutions for Fulbright Specialists.
Fee is recognized for his expertise in deafness and will provide a series of two-week training and technical assistance workshops in the Philippines in October 2011 and January and April of 2012 as a Fulbright Specialist. He will train teachers and volunteers to work with deaf infants from birth to three using the John Tracy Clinic Early Intervention program. The Fulbright Specialist Program covers all three two-week training and consultation sessions.
In July 2011, the Philippine government passed a law mandating newborn screening for deafness; however, they did not create an early intervention system once the diagnosis was made. Families must currently wait at least, 4-5 years for educational assistance.
The workshops Fee will lead will assist his colleagues at the Fulbright host institution of the University of Santo Tomas and other partners to create an early intervention system for deaf infants and children throughout the Philippines.
The Fulbright Specialist Program promotes linkages between U.S. academics and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. [I](UOG)[/I]
