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to use it, including how to submit assignments, and post on a discussion
board. Module content has been useful for supporting parents in talking about
their child's etiology and in supporting educational teams in using appropriate
hand-under-hand approaches with students.
Maurice Belote, California Deaf-Blind Services (CDBS)
California is part of a three-state cooperative—with the state deaf-blind
projects in Idaho and Montana—to provide hosted OHOA
training. CDBS
currently hosts cohorts of paraeducators, team members, and family
members through the first eight OHOA modules. When participating in hosted
modules with CDBS, university credit from the University of Montana is
available (one unit per module) for a cost of $135 for up to four units.
According to Google Analytics, since September, 2013 there have been
512 new users from California, Idaho and Montana who have visited
the
OHOA modules. Fifty-six of these users have registered to be a part of three
formally hosted cohorts. In general, CSDB staff has found that it is easier for
people who are engaged in the modules to respond to discussion boards,
rather than to download learning assignments and complete them. Hosting
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