Training
CHADD of Lee County Meeting “AD/HD Goes to School”
The September meeting of Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) will focus on AD/HD Goes to School. Topics and discussion will include: self regulation, working memory and executive functioning as well as teaching skills & approaches that allow independence. One (1) CEU for Lee County Teacher Inservice Credits are available.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Med Room 2-3
Lee Memorial Hospital
2776 Cleveland Avenue
Fort Myers, Florida
CHADD Meetings are free and open to the public. These meetings are monthly and occur on the first Tuesday of each month. For more information please contact Lynne Lampila, Chapter President, by phone at (239) 466-1167.
Communicating and Communication Skills
This course from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities is designed to assist the participant in communicating with the individuals you support, specifically those individuals that use alternative means to communicate and express themselves. Touch cues, visual aids and guides are some of the topics and suggested tools offered in this training. Facilitators include Robert Steinhauer and Todd Ryan from APD.
September 10, 2010
9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Joseph P. D’alessandro Office Complex, Room 165 A
2295 Victoria Avenue, Ft. Myers, FL 33901
Registration is required as this training is limited to 25 participants. Please contact Robert Steinhauer at (239)338-1352 or e-mail Robert_Steinhauer@apd.state.fl.us or to register.
APD Positive Behavior Support Training
The agency for Persons with Disabilities is offering a training on Positive Behavior Support, facilitated by Leigh Anna Nowak, MSW from Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD).
Positive Behavior Support is a proactive approach that blends values about the rights of people with disabilities with a practical science about how learning and behavior change occur. The overriding goal of Positive Behavior Support is to enhance quality of life for individuals and their support providers in home, work and community settings. Positive Behavior Support involves the assessment and reengineering of environments so people with challenging behaviors experience reductions in their challenging behaviors and increase social, personal and professional quality in their lives. This problem solving process involves goal identification, information gathering, hypothesis development, individualized support plan design, implementation and monitoring.
September 22, 2010
9:30 am – 5:00 pm
Joseph P. D’alessandro Office Complex, Room 165 A
2295 Victoria Avenue, Ft. Myers, FL 33901
Registration is required as this training is limited to 25 participants. Please contact Robert Steinhauer at (239)338-1352 or e-mail Robert_Steinhauer@apd.state.fl.us or to register.
CHADD of Collier County “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; the Many Faces of ADHD”
The September meeting of Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) will focus on the different sides of ADHD and will be presented by Janet Hoffman. Bring a teacher, so they can understand ADHD better!
September 27, 2010
7:00-9:00 PM
Dining Room
Physician’s Regional Hospital
Pine Ridge Road.
For more information or questions, call Janet Hoffman at (239) 352-7223. The meetings are free and open to the public. Donations accepted. Teachers receive 2 MIP points for speaker meetings. The chapter’s e-mail is collier-county@chadd.net.
Making Student and School Data Accessible and Meaningful to Families
The U. S. Department of Education has adopted using data for school improvement as one of its major education reform priorities. In the past decade, the Department, school districts, and states have spent more than a billion dollars to build data systems that collect, organize, and report on student data to foster continuous improvement.
We are now in a position to transform this data into information that can promote student success by tracking academic progress and by guiding the daily actions of families, schools, communities, and the students themselves. Making this data accessible and presenting it in a meaningful way can increase student success by empowering families to monitor their children’s academic progress from early childhood to college and beyond.
This third webinar—Data Driven: Making Student and School Data Accessible and Meaningful to Families—will take a look at practical examples of how districts and schools are using data to engage families in their children’s education. The webinar will also introduce tools that enable practitioners, districts, and schools to incorporate data into their own family engagement strategies.
August 10, 2010 from 3:30 – 5:00pm (EDT)
Registration is required for this event. For more information or to register please refer to http://www.nationalpirc.org/engagement_webinars/. Archives of the first to webinars are also available. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain an understanding of what is needed to engage families through the use of student data, discuss some of the challenges in building capacity, and highlight strategies to overcome them.
Hope for ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorders & Learning Disabilities
In the last two decades childhood disorders including ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, developmental and neuro-behavioral disorders have skyrocketed to epidemic proportions.
This seminar will discuss a comprehensive treatment approach along with therapeutic modalities including Applied Behavior Analysis and RDI (Relationship Development Intervention) program. These programs are intended to help lay missing pathways in the brain. Come learn how these treatments may dramatically improve the lives and well being of your children.
July 31, 2010
The Children’s Board of Hillsborough County
1002 East Palm Avenue
Tampa, FL 33605
This seminar is offered free of charge through the HIT Autism Support Group. Registration is required. Register today at (813) 935-4744 or online at www.hitautism.com.
The Florida Council for Exceptional Children (FCEC) Registration 2010
The FCEC is pleased to announce that registration information is now available for the FCEC conference in October. Pre-registration forms postmarked by September 30, 2010, will receive the pre-registration rate. The conference will be held at the Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort in Clearwater, Florida. This is always a great opportunity to share expertise and learn from others. Please feel free to share this information in your schools and with other colleagues and stakeholders. The cut-off date for a hotel reservation at the reduced rate is September 17, 2010. Contact Holly Boyet, at cec.hollyb@gmail.com.
Exploring Strategies beyond the One-Day Workshop with Larry Edelman
Come learn how to make the most out of the professional development opportunities you provide in this training event co-sponsored by the FL Expanding Opportunities Professional Development Workgroup and the CEC-RAP Center at Florida State University. Jointly register with a fellow Technical Assistance partner (teams of 2-6 members) from your area to learn about, and plan to implement, strategies to support early childhood inclusion.
September 13, 2010 from 9:00—3:30
Department of Health, Southwood Complex
4025 Esplanade Way, Room 301, Tallahassee, Florida 32399
Training is being offered at no cost. Participants must cover their own travel expenses. To register: online please visit http://www.tats.ucf.edu/FORMS/REG/FSU_SEP2010.html. Deadline: August 20, 2010.
Person Centered Planning APD Training
During 2008, the APD received a Real Choice Systems Change Grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), titled “Person Centered Planning and Implementation.” The grant was awarded to APD to refocus our service planning and implementation processes using person centered approaches to ensure people we serve and their families are directing the choice and control over the services and supports each person receives. Available data and extensive anecdotal comments from people receiving services, family members, support coordinators and other advocates clearly demonstrate a need to underscore the APD expectations for self-direction in both our planning processes and implementation of services.
The training is designed to enhance the APD system’s ability to ask people about their life expectations, listen and understand the person’s desired outcomes and then construct and put supports and services into practice that honor those personal choices. The training is mandatory for all waiver and general funded support coordinators. It will count toward annual in-service requirements and is required for recertification of support coordinators for the Developmental Disabilities Home and Community Based Services Waiver. This will also be a required component of pre-service training for all prospective waiver support coordinators. Each support coordinator is required to participate in a two-day session. Training sessions will be provided statewide and support coordinators can request to attend any session that best fits their personal schedule.
Nothing is more essential to a support coordinator’s role and responsibility than this critical planning method, so the training will begin with this group. While the training and education opportunities is required of some APD stakeholders, they are also open to people receiving services, family members, other advocates, service providers, quality assurance vendors and APD staff. In fact, APD welcomes self-advocates and family members to participate and reinforce the essential need for self-direction in planning and service implementation.
Training facilitators are Todd Ryan from Agency for Persons with Disabilities, and Ashley Mitchell from BRAVO Support Services.
August 9 – 10, 2010
OR
August 11 – 12, 2010
From 9:00am – 5:00pm
Joseph P. D’Alessandro Office Complex Room 165 A
2295 Victoria Avenue
Fort Myers, FL 33901
Please note that multiple sessions are offered, however participants need only attend one two-day session. Registration is required for this training as seating is limited. Please contact Robert Steinhauer at (239)338-1352 or e-mail Robert_Steinhauer@apd.state.fl.us with questions or to register for this training. If you register by e-mail you will receive confirmation.
This is an important step toward fulfilling the APD vision of moving our current service system to one that is directed by the people we support and their families. We appreciate your attendance, participation and work to improve people’s lives – one person at a time.
Language-Reading Connection: Deaf/Hard of Hearing Professional Development Institute (LRC:D/HH)
The Resource Materials and Technology Center for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing is sponsoring a three-day professional development workshop for teachers of students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. This workshop will provide in-depth information, resources, and the opportunity for practice and application related to reading instruction for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.
August 4 – 6, 2010
Altamonte Springs, FL
Participants will receive assistance with travel expenses including reimbursement of mileage and hotel accommodations. If you have any questions, please contact Carmelina Hollingsworth at hollingswoc@fsdb.k12.fl.us or (800)-356-6731.
