This document presents a proposal for a European project called HIPEN that brings together professionals and parents of hearing impaired children for the first time. The project aims to strengthen the partnership between parents and professionals and formalize family support programs to benefit hearing impaired children. The goal is for family support to be clearly identified by parents as part of specialized centers' institutional frameworks and responsive to families' needs.

1. HIPEN
PROJECT PROPOSAL DRAFT
Anne RABILLER and Fanny SALE, June 2013
SUMMARY
A European project aimed at parents with their hearing impaired child or children
associating professionals and parents for the first time in an HIPEN project on the
topic of FAMILY SUPPORT for families with educational and communication
difficulties with their deaf child or children. The project has the ambition of
reinforcing the partnership between parents and professionals and to formalize the
family support work for the well-being of the hearing impaired children. The final
objective is that family support could be clearly identified by parents as part of the
institutional framework of the specialized centers and close to the needs of families.
AIMS
1. To have a formal and practical report of family support
2. To define and formalize family support in theory and practice
3. To disseminate the results of the project, to communicate about it and to
evaluate the project and its results
MEANS
 Define concepts (family support / parenthood / education / situation of
handicap) with the help of experts (philosophers for example)
 Make an inventory of practices from each country
HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN
FAMILY SUPPORT PROJECT
HIC FS 2013/2015

2.  Identify difficulties faced by professionals
 Define the role and missions of professionals and parents
 Identify good practices
 Create new practices
 Create an evolutive survey tool to have and keep information about families
and their educational and communicational problems
 Analyze the results of the survey
 Organize and participate to debates with parents
 Analyze study cases
OUTCOMES
 Make a common leaflet about family support adaptable to each country
 Make an official and permanent survey tool about families
 Integrate the project and its results in the institutional projects of each centre
WORKING GROUP
 Parents, professionals and experts
 Professionals : educators, psychologists, social workers, specialized teachers,
heads of departement
TARGET GROUP
 Deaf children
 Parents of deaf children
EUROPEAN PROGRAM
 GRUNDTVIG Learning Partnership
MEETINGS
 January 2014
Place : FRANCE, Angers Centre Charlotte Blouin
Dates : 29/30/31

3. Creation of part 1 of a common guide including:
-a glossary (concepts definitions
-an inventory (good practices)
-propositions (innovative practices and survey tool)
 June 2014
Place : HUNGARY, Budapest
Dates : to define
Creation of part 2 of a common guide including:
-an analysis (survey results)
-study cases (relevant situations)
-videos (debates with parents)
 January 2015
Place : CROATIA, Zagreb
Dates : to define
January
 June 2015
Place : ROMANIA, Cluj
Dates : to define
Final outcomes:
-creation of a common leaflet
-validation of the survey tool
-communication and dissemination of the results of the project