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ADA-Indiana Audio Conference
Many Hoosiers with disabilities may have access and functional needs that will affect their ability to read or understand preparedness information, hear alerts and warnings, utilize accessible transportation during an evacuation, maintain their independence in a shelter, find accessible housing if theirs has been destroyed, access services to enable them to return to work and deal with a myriad of other challenges. Join this session to learn more about the progress that is being made in communities that are committed to emergency planning that is inclusive of the participation and requirements of people with access and functional needs.
Being Prepared: Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Emergency Planning
Tuesday, May 15th
2:00-3:30 p.m. EASTERN
Free and Open to the Public
The audio conference provider, Great Lakes ADA Center, is offering CRC, University of Illinois at Chicago CEU, and Certificate of Attendance at no cost for this session. Please sign-up to receive the CEU with the on-site coordinator at your location of choice. Locations include Bloomington, Columbus, Corydon, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, Muncie, Terre Haute, Versailles, and West Lafayette. If you can’t make it to one of the hosted locations, visit our website to find out more about other options, some are available at no cost!
For more information, contact Matt Norris at (812) 855-6508, or e-mail adainfo@indiana.edu. The Indiana ADA Audio Conference program is sponsored by ADA-Indiana, Great Lakes ADA Center, and the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities.
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Creative Aging Talk by Poet Jenny Kander
Join us for the next monthly meeting of South Central ArtsWORK Indiana. Meetings are always free and open to the public. The regular discussion agenda addresses issues of interest to artists with disabilities and their supporters. Bloomington Poet Jenny Kander will present a session titled Creativity and Aging: Prim Dolls and Prose Poems. She will describe her creative foray into making primitive dolls and creatures, with accompanying stories, while recuperating from illness. This event is part of the 2012 Creative Aging Festival.
Kander is a South African born naturalized American who has lived in Bloomington for 20 years. Kander has edited several volumes of poetry, produced programs for community and National Public Radio stations, and is a founding member of the Bloomington Free Verse (now Tuesday Poets) Workshop. Her own poetry has appeared in numerous publications and she has had two poetry chapbooks published. She has also worked in the medium of collage.
The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 22, 2012 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Bloomington City Hall, McCloskey Conference Room. The building is fully accessible. Parking is free after 5:00 p.m. in the lot to the south of the building.
Meetings are usually held at 5:30 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Bloomington City Hall. Each meeting includes open discussion, preceded by a presentation on some aspect of arts employment. These free events are open to artists of all disciplines (with or without disabilities) and their supporters. Help set the direction of this group, share refreshments and make new friends.
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Training Opportunities in Early Education
As we learn more about what constitutes the design of effective early education, we are asked to reexamine our planning and teaching practices in order to be most effective and to best help children prepare for kindergarten. The Institute’s Early Childhood Center is pleased to offer a collection of workshops that focus on ways preschool teachers can enhance children’s learning and school readiness.Topics range from looking at the types of routines and learning opportunities children will experience in kindergarten, the importance of clear goals and objectives in designing your teaching, an alternative way of looking at children’s behavior and discipline, and appropriate teaching and language practices during free play and other common routines.
Training topics include:
Reexamining the Classroom Day to Promote School Readiness
Using Objectives to Guide Your Planning and Teaching
When Actions Speak Louder than Words
Rethinking Free Play- School Readiness Research to Practice
Rich Language, Rich Experiences, Ready Children
Topics are presented as workshops or technical assistance. Each topic is available as a full-day workshop, half-day workshop, or a series of full- or half-day workshops. Watch our website for the availability of on-line workshops on these topics.
We have recently been using two nationally validated classroom assessment measures to examine the quality of children’s time in preschool and the quality of teacher-child interactions children experience - the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) and the Emerging Academic Snapshot. We have used these tools to evaluate both individual classrooms and overall early education programs followed by more individualized inservice training. Talk to us about how we might bring these new resources to your program to improve the quality of your early learning environments. For more information, contact Sue Dixon at (812) 855-6508 or e-mail sudixon@indiana.edu.
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Stafford to Present at Portland Conference on Livable Cities
Phil Stafford, Director of the Institute’s Center on Aging and Community will be a featured keynote speaker at the 49th International Making Cities Livable Conference to be held in Portland, Oregon on May 20-24, 2012. Stafford’s presentation titled Developing the Elder-Friendly Community will discuss the implications for older people of our modern tendencies to both fragment the bodies of aged persons and fragment the communities in which we reside. He will argue that similar forces may be at work at both levels of experience and that the key to creating elder-friendly communities is found in a collective effort of reunification – a new culture of aging. He will sketch a deep map of home that emerges from his ethnographic research into the meaning of place for elders and provide a blueprint for creating thriving communities that enhance the social life of elders and tap their multiple potentials to contribute to their neighborhoods, towns and cities.
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New Library Acquisitions
The following new materials may be borrowed by Indiana residents from the Center for Disability Information and Referral at the Institute. To check out materials, contact the library at 1-800-437-7924, send e-mail to cedir@indiana.edu, visit us at 2853 East Tenth Street in Bloomington
Endow, J., & Myles, B. S. (2012). Learning the hidden curriculum: The odyssey of one autistic adult. Shawnee Mission, KS: AAPC Pub. (Call Number: 40.3 .E536)
Golden, C., & Heflin, J. (2012). The special educator's toolkit: Everything you need to organize, manage, & monitor your classroom. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Pub. (Call Number: 38 .G6)
Holcomb, E. L. (2012). Data dynamics: Aligning teacher team, school, & district efforts. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press. (Call Number: 38 .H6)
McManmon, M. P. (2012). Made for good purpose: What every parent needs to know to help their adolescent with Asperger's, high functioning autism or a learning difference become an independent adult. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. (Call Number: 40.3 .M244)
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