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FYI Newsletter February 5, 2007
Quick Scan:
- Teaching Verbal Behavior Workshop
- Indiana Summit on Equity and Educational Partnerships
- Library Corner
Teaching Verbal Behavior Workshop
The Institute's Indiana Resource Center for Autism is pleased to announce a three-day workshop designed to provide tutors, therapists, and parents who serve as their child's primary therapist, with guided practice in implementing methods of effective instruction.
Participants will experience supervised practice in the areas of:
· Establishing instructional control with an unwilling learner;
· Manipulating establishing operations (EO) during teaching opportunities toxmaintain xlearner attention;
· Use of the ABLLS and developing instructional objectives;
· Choosing an appropriate response form (sing, vocal, pictures);
· Teaching echoic repertoire and transitioning from sign language to verbal behavior;
· Manipulating EOs to teach early to advanced manding skills;
· Teaching early to advanced receptive, visual performance, motor imitation, tacting, and xintraverbal skills;
· Teaching reciprocal conversation skills in advanced learners;
· Teaching verbal behavior across all settings;
· Teaching social skills in early and advanced learners; and
· Organizing your program materials and data recording methods.
It is suggested that participants have a Verbal Behavior Introductory Workshop and/or have a least some experience in teaching children with autism within an intensive program. Registration fee is $750.00 per person. Training Funds for family members and individuals with disabilities are available through the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities at (317) 232-7770 or IN*SOURCE at 1-800-332-4433. Certificates of attendance will be provided. Upon approval by the Indiana Professionals Standards Board, Certification Renewal Units (CRUs) will be available.
Questions regarding workshop content or about registration, contact Cathy Pratt at (812) 855-6508, e-mail prattc@indiana.edu, or visit Dr. Carbone's website at http://www.drcarbone.net/.
Indiana Summit on Equity and Educational Partnerships
Mark your calendars for June 7, 2007 (Holiday Inn Select North, Indianapolis) and plan to attend a one-day workshop on Equity and Educational Partnerships sponsored by the Indiana State Improvement Grant (IN-SIG), in conjunction with the Equity Project at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, projects of the Division of Exceptional Learners, Indiana Department of Education.
This workshop will feature Elisabeth Harry, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami and Co-Principal investigator of the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems, and Consultant to the ICAREE School program.
Concurrent sessions include:
· Cultural competence involving community and staff in courageous conversations;
· Literacy (the impact of direct instruction);
· Involving parents in the GEI process;
· Engaging the community in school improvement;
· Linking all initiatives to increase achievement and address disproportionality;
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· Using date to create equitable change.
District and building administrators, parents, teachers, community leaders, school counselors, psychologists, social workers, and general and special education teachers should plan to attend.
For additional information, contact Julie Havill -Weems at jhavill@indiana.edu or Shana Ritter at rritter@indiana.edu.
Library Corner
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, contact us at 1-800-437-7924, send e-mail to cedir@indiana.edu, or come visit us at 2853 East Tenth Street in Bloomington.
O'Brien, R. (Ed.). (2004). Voices from the edge: narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act. New York: Oxford University Press.
Switzer, J.V. (2003). Disabled rights: American disability policy and the fight for equality. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.