ACVREP credit available!
Monday October 14- Hearing Differences and Vision Impairment/DeafBlind. What Now? Interpreting For Students with vision and hearing differences!
Interpreters, parents, paraprofessionals, interveners will increase their knowledge about deafblindness and beginning insight into how deafblindness affects learning, with this understanding, the interpreter and/or intervener can begin to interpret a student's responses to the environment in new ways. Simulation is to make people think, not to recreate the experience of someone who lives each day with deafblindness.
Tuesday October 15- Comprehensive Literacy Strategies for Emerging Readers and Writers: Project Core to Tar Heel Reader-This course is for educators of students with severe cognitive challanges and who are not yet reading and writing. We will find IEP goals, develop literacy strategies, and experience materials, and technology that support students with significant cognitive disabilities.
Wednesday October 16- Routines, Anticipations, Communication and Calendars for all students! Empower your student with independence and communication! Calendars can serve many functions regarding the development of time concepts and language acquisition. A calendar can function as a timepiece providing structure to the days events, as well as providing a static form of communication that can be referred to beyond the context of the current moment. Calendars can also give opportunities for social interaction by providing topics for conversation.
Thursday October 17-Assistive Technology: From Assessment Through Implementation
Stephanie Walker, your APH Outreach Specialist for the Southcentral Region, will be here to guide you into the world of assistive technology. Together, let's dive into the fascinating realm of evaluating and utilizing assistive technology for students with visual impairments in a day filled with exciting discoveries and hands on learning.
Through this engaging experience, you will become skilled at identifying the specific assistive technology a student with a visual impairment will need based on thorough evaluation. We will demystify the process of using service intensity scales (VISSIT) to identify the appropriate type and amount of support for each student. In the end, we will examine the data to build outcomes that will enable students to seamlessly integrate assistive technology into their educational day.
Get ready for a day that promises to be both enlightening and empowering!
Friday October 18-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!
