Cultivating Equitable Education Systems: Getting Down to the Business of Indigenous Research

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

The Business Session will attend to all matters relating to the health and wellbeing of the SIG. The session will also include an invited research project, “Mobile tablet-based audiometry software: An innovative approach to universal hearing testing in K-12 Hawaiian schools.” While the research focuses on children in Hawaiʻi schools, it provides essential information for testing children in schools across Indigenous communities.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific

Chairs

• Huia Tomlins Jahnke, Massey University

• Summer Maunakea, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Speakers

• Wayne Barber, Hearing.Games

• Sharon Nelson-Barber, WestEd

Discussant

• Maung T. Nyeu, New York University