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April 15, 2013 |
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ADA-Indiana Audio Conference
In January, the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights released a “Dear Colleague Letter” for schools covering Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and extracurricular athletics. This month’s session will highlight key points of that letter and offer practical advice for schools and their athletic programs. Extracurricular Athletic Opportunities for Students with Disabilities: Understanding the Issues
Tuesday, April 16th
2:00-3:30 pm EASTERN
9 Indiana Locations
Free and Open to the Public
Audio conference locations include Bloomington, Fort Wayne, Gary, Indianapolis, Muncie, Rockport, Terre Haute, Versailles, and West Lafayette. Click for more specific information about these site locations (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 about this session, 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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Zooming In on Nuance Challenged Social Communicators Workshop
Mark your calendars for April 26, 2013 and plan to attend this workshop featuring Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela J. Crooke, sponsored by the Institute’s Indiana Resource Center for Autism and hosted by Avon Middle School North. "Zooming In" will focus on developing nuance-based social learning activities that connect to select Common Core Standards as well as explore how to work with individuals who struggle with self-regulation, social anxiety, and depression (Nuance Challenged Social Communicator).
Co-presenter Michelle Garcia Winner is a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) who specializes in the treatment of students with social cognitive deficits at the Social Thinking Center, her clinic in San Jose, California. It was her interest in autism while attending the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1979 that became the catalyst for becoming an SLP.
Pamela Crooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, is a Senior Therapist at the Social Thinking Center and part of the Social-Cognitive team in San Jose, California. She has served on the clinical faculty of three universities and has published research on the effectiveness of using the Social Thinking Vocabulary in schools.
Registration fee is $125.00 for the public and $100.00 for autism leaders. Payment is by credit card or purchase order only. The workshop is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern) with registration beginning at 8:00 a.m. Breakfast and lunch are on your own.
Click to register.. If you have questions about the workshop content, contact Cathy Pratt via e-mail at prattc@indiana.edu or (812) 855-6508.
Assistance with the online registration/payment should be directed to Indiana University Conferences at (800) 933-9330 or Melissa, iuconfs@indiana.edu. All other questions regarding registration should be directed to Donna Beasley, dbeasley@indiana.edu or (812) 855-6508.
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Places with a Purpose Workshop
Can Indiana towns and cities become lifetime communities? On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, the Institute’s Center on Aging and Community will sponsor a one-day workshop to answer this question.
The workshop will be held at Ivy Tech Community College from 9:00-4:00 p.m. in the Hoosier Times Student Commons.
Presenters include Jan Hively, Co-founder of a number of peer networks and experiential learning programs focuses on positive, productive aging. Kim Irwin, Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Promotion, M. Scott Ball, Senior Project Manager, Lifelong Communities at Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects and Town Planners, and Zachary Benedict, MKM Architecture and Design.
Registration fee is $10.00 per person and includes lunch. There are three ways to register:
- Online (enter course #31482-123
- Call Katrina Jones at (812) 330-6042 or e-mail katjones@ivytech.edu
- Register on-site at 8:30 a.m.
Additional sponsors include: Pfizer Foundation, Grantmakers In Aging, and Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County. This event is hosted by Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington.
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Wray Receives Ovation Award
Christina Wray, Librarian, at the Institute’s Center for Disability Information and Referral, was the recipient of the Indiana Health Sciences Librarians Association (IHSLA) Ovation Award, given to honor a member who has made outstanding professional contribution impacting IHALS, their individual library, and /or the provision of health information. The Ovation Award, established in 2005, was presented to Wray at the IHSLA annual Meeting held on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 in Indianapolis. Congrats Christina!
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Staff Presentations at 2013 Indiana Early Childhood Conference
The staff of the Institute’s Early Childhood Center presented three sessions and exhibited at the 2013 Indiana Early Childhood Conference, sponsored by the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children, held on April 11-13, 2013 in Indianapolis.
Presentation topics included:
Meaningful Language, Purposeful Literacy, Ready Children, Sue Dixon
Top Teachers Plan Lessons Based on Objectives, Alice Frazeur Cross
Examining the Quality of Indiana’s Child Care and Early Education Classrooms, Michael Conn-Powers |
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New Items
The following new materials may be borrowed by Indiana residents from the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR) at the Institute. To check out materials, call the library at 800-437-7924, send us an e-mail at cedir@indiana.edu, or visit us at 2853 East Tenth Street in Bloomington.
Chesterfield, S. T., IUPUI (Campus), & Indiana University Medical Center. (2012). IUPUI SITE: An overview. Indianapolis: Indiana University Medical Center, Indiana University & Purdue University Schools.
Hacker, K. (2013). Community-based participatory research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Rousso, H. (2013). Don't call me inspirational: A disabled feminist talks back. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Walker, H. M., Association of University Centers on Disabilities, & University of Oregon. (2012). Preparing fundable grant proposals. Silver Spring, MD: Association of University Centers on
Disabilities.
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