This session will present various teaching strategies that were suggested in a research case study, based on a sociocultural framework, to support students in high school in the transition process This will be an interactive format that will allow participants to discuss, ask questions, and work with the strategies presented.

Career & Technology Centers are required to prepare students for a highly competitive world. Positive outcomes for students can be achieved through a comprehensive, student led, transition plan achieved through collaboration with agencies and others during a Transition Clinic. This workshop will demonstrate and explain the process and supports used by a Career & Tech. Center and the five participating districts.

This presentation describes how to use a problem-solving approach for office discipline referrals and for data-based decision making. Teachers will be able to identify the elements of a problem-solving model, how to use these methods to teach replacement behaviors and how to use the data for making academic and behavioral decisions.

It is difficult for many of us to fully grasp a day, week, or moth in the life of a child or adolescent diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Depression or Dysthymia. This workshop builds awareness, provides guidelines for recognizing both the withdrawn and acting out behaviors associated with these disorders, offers specific do’s and don’ts for interventions and provides recommendations for the creation of a network of support for students and their families.

This workshop was designed based in part on the book, "Ten Things Every Student with Autism Wishes You Knew", by Ellen Notbohm. The session will provide a brief overview on the prevalence, categories, and characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The presenters will focus on practical and effective strategies that can be used in any setting. This will be an interactive workshop with hands on experiences and examples.

Addressing problem behavior is one of the greatest concerns of classroom teachers. Designing student-centered interventions and supports based on a functional behavior assessment (FBA) can lead to positive behavior change. This presentation will highlight the basic aspects of FBA as it relates to intervention design through the Initial Line of Inquiry (3^rd Edition, 2007).

You should understand your pension from your first day of employment. Here are some of the topics we will address: How to help maximize your *403(b) tax shelter; How to help maximize your Retirement Annuity; What options are available to you at retirement; What are the cost differences among the various options; How and why you should purchase retirement credit for previous service; How health factors may affect the choice of your retirement option; Why your beneficiaries should understand death benefit options; What Long-Term Health Care options are available to you; Do you know where you stand financially?

This presentation will provide participants with an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as well as the efforts of Marywood University to integrate UDL into K-12 and post-secondary education. Efforts to educate area K-12 teachers, conduct action research, and initiatives at the post-secondary level will be discussed.

This presentation will provide participants with an overview of how a small Catholic university developed their CEC Chapter. Efforts to increase campus involvement, fundraisers, and existing programs and opportunities for students and individuals with disabilities are discussed.

Social Stories are commonly used with children who are living with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This poster session will be about how I implement Social Stories in my preschool classroom.

Session offers strategies and examples of team teaching between both a secondary special education classroom teacher and a speech therapist. Photographs, lesson plans, worksheets, and additional resources will be available for viewing. Lessons covered subject areas of reading, writing, mathematics, speech, social skills, family consumer science, and current events with links to state standards.

This session will take a look at the different disabilities classified under IDEIA. What are disabilities and their characteristics, and how do they affect the child? These topics will be discussed to give a clear idea of each disability as a whole as well as strategies in the classroom.

This presentation will focus on the current research in reading instruction-phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension; and what that means for content area teachers at the secondary (and upper elementary) level. Teachers will leave with the whys as well as some how-tos to enhance their own instructional practices.

This presentation will highlight the long-term effects of a literacy intervention program for students with disabilities and at risk for reading failure. Overall results from one and three years after intervention will be discussed.

Have you ever noticed that teachers, administrators, and parents are constantly consumed by state test scores, IEP’s, NOREP’s, etc.? Does anyone consider what the label means to the child? Peter Riffle had been a teacher of children with learning disabilities for forty years, but more importantly, he is also a person with a learning disability. Walk with Peter in the shoes of a child with a learning disability and see what it is like from their perspective.

A speech pathologist, occupational therapist, two special educators and multi parents created an innovative model which focuses on building social skills and fostering friendship through fun, communication-rich, structured activities for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This presentation shares the process and results of our journey into the development of friendships for children.

Learn more about RTI in the classroom from the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network

This presentation will begin with an overview of our comprehension research as my instructional framework is introduced. Participants will have an opportunity to engage in an interactive lesson as I model a comprehension instructional strategy using the instructional framework.

This presentation will provide strategies and techniques for parents, advocates and school district personnel to work collaboratively and come to consensus on behalf of the child. The presentation will include specific conversation strategies, strategies to achieve consensus and role-playing of real life situations involving advocates and school district personnel

This session will give students the knowledge and tools they will need to write a winning resume and a cover letter that will sell them to employers!

Presenters will discuss and model strategies used to develop and improve written expression skills for primary-aged and low-functioning students. This interactive session will build on writing instruction and lesson planning.

A workshop that highlights the need to form a partnership between Regular classroom teachers and Special Ed teachers so that our students will receive the best quality of instruction by utilizing research-based methods and capitalizing on the expertise of a district’s educational professionals and specialists.

OPTIONS provides community based services for transition aged youth. This session will describe OPTIONS focusing on successful strategies and accommodations used for students to develop the necessary skills for employment and community access.

This session will be designed to provide students, and others who are interested, the information they need as they prepare to interview with prospective employers. Included will be information on attire, how to act, and what to expect.

This presentation will provide an overview of funding options for the acquisition of assistive technology devices in Pennsylvania and present a case study documenting an advocacy group’s attempt to acquire a device for an adult with cerebral palsy. An expert in funding from DynaVox Technologies will provide an overview of their Funding Manager software.

This session will include a review of a course assignment that was used to expand preservice teachers’ knowledge of instructional strategies to be used in classrooms. The design of the strategy, examples, and feedback data from preservice teacher candidates will be shared.

When students do not respond to school or class wide positive behavior systems, teams of educators need to create individualized plans to effectively manage and teach appropriate behaviors. The purpose of this presentation is to guide participants through the systematic process of developing effective interventions.

Participants will be able to select and apply practical interventions using a systems approach to problem solving that will increase the likelihood that college students with autism spectrum disorders will learn and experience community success.

The Internet is a rich source of material for educators, but it is difficult in this demanding profession to find the time to discover the best sites. After five months and a hundred hours of scouring the Internet for the best of the best, we have identified the top twenty most useful free internet resources for special educators. We will provide attendees with a brief overview of each site and with a list and descriptions of other top sites that did not make the top twenty. Attendees will also be given access to our Top Twenty website.

Digital photography: creating experiential background for constructing greater meaning for individuals with communication disabilities

Assisted technology at present includes the devices or equipment used to maintain, increase, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with multiple disabilities.

This presentation will discuss the experiences of 24 undergraduates as they embark on a semester-long practicum in classrooms supporting students with low incidence disabilities. Their thoughts at the start of the semester compared to their feelings at the conclusion will be examined.