1. This document outlines the agenda for the second meeting of the Hearing Impairment Children, Family Support group in Budapest, Hungary. 2. The meeting will focus on creating the second part of a common guide about family support and will include debates among parents on the topic of family support. 3. The debates will be led by a French psychologist and recorded, with two professionals acting as secretaries. Parents and professionals will be asked questions about defining family support, its aims and expectations, who should receive it, advantages and disadvantages of support at home, important professionals to provide support, challenges families face, and whether there should be an end to family support.

1. HIPEN
Hearing Impairment Professional Network
HIC FS -Hearing Impairment Children, Family Support
Agenda- - HIC FS meeting n°2-
Budapest, HUNGARY
DR. TÖRÖK BÉLA ÓVODA, ÁLTALÁNOS ISKOLA, SPECIÁLIS SZAKISKOLA ,
Creation of part two of the common guide about family support
-May 2014-
PARENTS DEBATES
Participants
 Catherine YAKOVLEV, the French psychologist is the leader of the debates
 All parents are present
 All professionals are present
 Ferenc records the debates (if parents agree)
 2 professional from Hungary and from Romania are the secretaries
Content
 The topic : Family Support
 Questions to be asked (these are the ones I propose, please do add questions):
1. How do you define Family Support in a few words?
2. What is the aim of Family Support? What do you expect exactly?

2. 3. Do you think family support should be proposed to all types of families or only families
who have big difficulties of communication and education with their hearing impaired
child?
4. What do you think about Family Support at home? Advantages and disadvantages?
5. Which professionals are competent and important to work as family “supporters”?
6. Which difficulties do you have to face with your hearing-impaired child and what
help/ support to you need more?
7. Should there be an end to Family support and why ?