TASH Teleconference: Inclusive Education: Strategies for Success

2007-02-14T00:03:00.000-08:00

Join TASH in this exciting 8-week series on Inclusive Education: Strategies for Success. Learn what the leading experts know about adapting schoolwork and classrooms, advocating for your inclusive classrooms, communicating, teamwork and the latest IDEA regulations. Each 90-minute session brings you together with the leading expert on each topic area to learn, share and take back strategies you can use right away. As a companion to this series you will have the opportunity to purchase books by the authors through Brookes Publishing at a discounted rate.

Session 1:
From Special Education Teacher to Inclusion Facilitator: Role Revelations and Revolutions

Presenter: Cheryl Jorgensen, Ph.D.
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2007 Time: Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Inclusion facilitators are educators who do more than teach children with disabilities — they advocate for change in schools and communities, sparking a passion for inclusion in teachers, administrators, and families and giving them the practical guidance they need to make it work. This session focuses on skills and information needed for this essential new role in today’s schools, and discusses elements of the guide, which prepares staff for the challenges of facilitating full inclusion.

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Session 2:
Modifying Schoolwork, Second Edition
Teachers' Guides to Inclusive Practices

Presenters: Rachel Janney, Ph.D., & Martha E. Snell, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Adapting schoolwork for students with disabilities is must-have information for every educator in an inclusive classroom. Educators of students from grades K–12 will learn about curricular, instructional, and alternative adaptations and decide when and how to implement them with the new strategies.

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Session 3:
Teaching Communication Skills to Students with Severe Disabilities, Second Edition

Presenter: June E. Downing, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
This session addresses how educators and therapists can best teach students with severe and multiple disabilities to communicate effectively. With a strong emphasis on students’ need and right to communicate, students with disabilities learning side by side with students without disabilities and learning the connection between literacy skills and general communication skills this session will focus on how to analyze environments for their communicative value, assess students’ communication skills, teach specific skills such as gaining attention and requesting, make informed choices about AAC, and guide peers and adults in supporting students with disabilities.

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Session 4:
The Paraprofessional's Guide to the Inclusive Classroom Working as a Team, Second Edition

Presenters: Mary Beth Doyle, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday March 7, 2007 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
For inclusive classrooms to succeed, paraprofessionals and educators must work together effectively and truly understand each other’s specific roles and responsibilities. This session describes strategies to help them do just that, with lessons, creative activities, personal stories, objectives, and planning guides they can work through as a team!

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Session 5:
"You're Going to Love this Kid!"
Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom

Presenter: Paula Kluth, Ph.D.
Date: Friday, March 16, 2007 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm
This session provides education professionals with a strategy-filled guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Details on how to adapt classrooms to support student participation in class work, school routines, social activities, and more will be discussed.

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Session 6:
Listening to the Experts
Students with Disabilities Speak Out

Presenters: Elizabeth B. Keefe, Ph.D., Veronica M. Moore, Ph.D., & Frances R. Duff
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Time: 2:00pm -3:30pm
What’s the best way to find out what really works — and doesn’t work — in education for students with disabilities? Listen to the experts: the students themselves. The authors of this one-of-a-kind book share lessons learned from students with a wide range of disabilities; a rare inside look at their past and present school experiences, both in self-contained classrooms and in inclusive environments.

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Session 7:
Believe in My Child with Special Needs!
Helping Children Achieve Their Potential in School

Presenter: Mary A. Falvey, Ph.D.
Date: Friday, March 30, 2007 Time: 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Every parent is filled with dreams, fears, hopes, and questions when preparing a child for school - and when that child has a disability, this exciting time can seem overwhelming. This upbeat, reassuring session will include invaluable resources to share with parents of a school-age child with a disability. Drawing on her own experiences as a parent of a child with a disability and as an educator, Mary Falvey demystifies complicated issues, encourages parents to celebrate abilities and recognize possibilities, and tells parents everything they need to know to be successful advocates throughout their child’s education.

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Session 8:
Life Beyond the Classroom
Transition Strategies for Young People with Disabilities, Fourth Edition

Presenters: Paul Wehman, Ph.D., with invited contributors
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Time: 2:00pm -3:30pm
Just in time for the implementation of new IDEA regulations, this fourth edition of a landmark text brings together the most up-to-date, comprehensive information on facilitating transitions for young people with mild, moderate, or severe disabilities. Teaming with the best-known researchers in the fields of employment, transition, postsecondary education, disability, and special education, internationally recognized authority Paul Wehman has thoroughly updated the entire book with the latest theoretical information and practical guidance.

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Please note all listed times are east coast time.
East Coast 2:00 – 3:30pm
Central 1:00 – 2:30pm
Mountain 12:00 – 1:30pm
West Coast 11:00am – 12:30pm