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Descriptions:Monday September 29-Camp Abilities Fest with Dr. Lauren LiebermanAn active and engaging day. Parents, special and general educators, physical educators, O&Mers, therapist, and TVIs are going to learn accessible soccer, swimming, track and field, biking, goal ball! You're gonna love it!Tuesday September 30-Calendars and Routines for Increased Communication.Empower your student with independence and increase their expressive communication! Routines can serve many functions regarding the development of language acquisition. A calendar system can function as a timepiece providing structure to the days events, but more so, provides a static form of communication.Wednesday October 1-Welcoming Students who are Visually Impaired/Blind to your School!Everything you need to know from Abacus to Zoom! This day supports all educators working with a new student to your school who has a visual impairment. How to procure equipment, where to get braille materials, how to empower your student, how to support the staff-everything you need to know, we cover it on this day!Thursday October 2 Sensory Disabilities 101-Do you work with a student who has hearing differences and vision differences, perhaps multiple disabilities? This day covers the impact of sensory impairments on communication and instruction. You will walk away with strategies that will make a big difference to your students.Friday October 3-Interpreting for the DeafBlind/Orientation and Mobility for the DeafBlind/Multiple Disabilities.Interpreters, parents, paraprofessionals, and interveners will increase their knowledge about deafblindness and interpreting for students with deafblindness. Do you use haptics, and touch signals with your students during O&M travel? Come learn how to utilize non-verbal instruction to your students while keeping them focused on their travel. |
