Dr. Amy Szarkowski is a psychologist who specializes in working with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Dr. Szarkowski serves as the Clinical Director for the Children’s Center for Communication/Beverly School for the Deaf (CCCBSD). At Gallaudet University, she teaches in the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants, Toddlers, and their Families: Collaboration and Leadership Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate program, commonly referred to as ITF. Through this work, she is involved in training Early Intervention providers to work with families who have deaf children. Dr. Szarkowski is one of the Core Faculty for LEND (Leadership and Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities), through the Institute for Community Inclusion (ICI) at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Boston Children’s Hospital. As LEND faculty, she has the opportunity to engage with, teach, and foster advocacy related to caring for and supporting individuals with disabilities among emerging health care professionals. At Boston Children’s, she is also Staff Psychologist in the Department of Developmental Medicine. Finally, Dr. Szarkowski holds an academic appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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Upcoming Events
Improving the Outcomes of Students who are Blind or have Low Vision in Mainstream Settings 2021
- March 10, 2021
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Mainstream teachers will benefit from this one-day workshop by gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics and learning needs of students who are blind or have low vision.
- March 10, 2021
Improving the Outcomes of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Mainstream Settings 2021
- March 17, 2021
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Mainstream teachers will benefit from this one-day workshop by gaining a deeper understanding of the characteristics and learning needs of students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
- March 17, 2021
Teacher Aides: Supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in your School 2021
- March 24, 2021
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
This course is intended to provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to assist in supporting Deaf and Hard of Hearing students in the learning environment.
- March 24, 2021
Teacher Aides: Supporting Students who are Blind or have Low Vision in your School 2021
- March 26, 2021
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
This course is intended to provide participants with the skills and knowledge required to assist in supporting learners who are Blind or have Low Vision in the classroom environment.
- March 26, 2021
DIR 101: An Introduction to DIR® and DIRFloortime®
- April 19, 2021 - April 20, 2021
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
This training will introduce and examine the Developmental, Individual difference, Relationship-based (DIR) model, which is an established and recognized framework to understand a child’s development that was developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan.
- April 19, 2021 - April 20, 2021