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Lynda Berkowitz, MS, CED,
coordinator of the
CID
pre-k since August of 2004,
was named co-principal of the CID school in August of 2006. She has more than 20 years experience in the
field, starting as a teacher of the deaf at CID (ages 3–5 and 10–11) and
later working as a parent educator for the Ladue School District Parents As
Teachers program. She received her undergraduate degree in elementary
education along with highest university honors from the University of
Illinois, Champaign, and her master’s degree in deaf education, along with
the Antoinette Francis Dames Award for Outstanding Scholarship, from
Washington University/CID.
Working with families of newly diagnosed hearing-impaired babies and
toddlers in the CID Family Center from 1997 to 2004, Ms. Berkowitz also
taught two-year-olds beginning speech, language and listening skills,
created a Parents As Teachers program, presented parenting lectures and led
parent support groups. She holds Parents As Teachers Certification, Part C
Early Intervention credential from Illinois Child and Family Connections and
First Steps of Missouri, as well as professional certification from the
Council on Education of the Deaf.
Ms. Berkowitz serves on the faculty of the Washington University School of
Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication
Sciences. As an instructor in this CID
at Washington University School of Medicine program, she helps
guide and develop curricula for graduate students who will be future
audiologists and teachers of the deaf. She shares her early intervention
expertise with fellow teachers at professional conferences, recently
presenting “Working with Children with Hearing Loss and Other Significant
Issues” at the International Convention of the Alexander Graham Bell
Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. She co-presents the CID
workshop, "Listen, Talk and Learn in Pre-K," and has co-written an article
on designing a successful auditory-oral preschool program that was published in Volta Voices magazine. She also leads parenting
workshops at the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis.
314.977.0120
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