Through the SayWhatClub, we discuss our hearing losses through our own eyes, and sometimes, in particular on the DHC list, we include our partners. Rarely do we have the opportunity to ³listen² to our children. This workshop presents a panel of four young adults who each have a parent with hearing loss, and will examine openly and honestly, with a touch of humor, their feelings and reactions to us and our ears. The panel will be asked to share the frustrations as well as the good things they have experienced, as children of parents with hearing loss. This will be an opportunity for us, the adults to truly "hear" what our children have to say!

Jane Schlau has been a member of SWC since January 1998, when she was diagnosed with a progressive hearing loss. Since that time, she has become profoundly deaf. As an Assistant Principal in a New York City High School, a doctoral student, and a wife and mother of two children, she uses increasing accommodations, technologies and strategies to adjust to a deaf life. Jane holds a Masters of Science degree in Special Education, a Certificate in Deafness Rehabilitation, and a Professional Diploma in School Administration. Currently a Doctoral Fellow at Hofstra University, Jane has presented numerous workshops for SWC, SHHH and ALDA, openly sharing her experiences and adjustment to hearing loss.