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Tickets for this performance go on sale Monday, November 12, 2012, by phone at the MCT Box Office (406) 728-7529 (PLAY). Tickets are $10 per person and all seats are reserved. The box office will do its best to meet all special seating requests, including the need for extra space or quiet.  What:
The Missoula Community Theatre (MCT Inc.) presents an adaptive performance of Miracle on 34th Street to accommodate people on the autism spectrum on Tuesday, December 4. "The adaptive performance is our way of reaching out to folks who may not come to any regular programs," said Executive Director Michael McGill, director of Miracle on 34th Street The Musical. "Theatre is a powerful medium, and we want it to be shared and engaged in by everyone." When/Where:
MCT Center for the Performing Arts
200 North Adams Street
Missoula, MT
Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 6:30 p.m. Contact:
MCT Inc.
200 North Adams Street
Missoula, MT 59802-4718                                                                                                                           Phone: (406) 728-7529  

What:
The second annual Autism HALO benefit features original tunes by Montana songwriters Jim Devine, Charlie Denison, Sean Devine and Katie Boeck. Proceeds help children and families dealing with autism.

When:
Saturday, April 27, 2013
7:30 pm Mountain

Where:
Beaver Creek's Gem Theatre
102 Orgain Ave.
Wibaux, MT 59353

Cost:
Tickets $20-$30

Click here to download information on the lecture series

What:
You are invited to attend a special lecture series on "Diversity and Inclusion" on October 17 and 18, 7:00PM, at Petro Theatre on the campus of Montana State University Billings.  The Montana Regional Education Service Area III (MRESA3), Region III Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD), and Disability Support Services of MSUB will be hosting two speakers who will talk about diversity and inclusion from their personal and unique perspectives. When
October 17-18, 2012
7:00 pm Where:
Petro Theatre on campus of Montana State University Billings
Billings, MT  Target Audience:
high school college students educators Para-professionals Vocational Rehabilitation Services parents Contact:
John Keener
MRESA3 Project Coordinator
Montana Center for Inclusive Education
Montana State University Billings
john.keener@msubillings.edu
406-657-1743  

Click here to download brochure for full details and locations What:
Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities as well as mental illness have characteristics that result in puzzling and easily misunderstood behaviors that pose myriad difficulties for the criminal justice system. Join us for a 6-hour Workshop designed to provide the participant with skills to interact with individuals with intellectual disabilities. Participants will learn effective techniques to identify and interact with individuals with intellectual limitations to achieve desired outcomes and acquire skills for questioning and de-escalating agitated individuals with intellectual disabilities. Upon completion of this training, you will: Utilize techniques to assist in identifying individuals with intellectual disabilities; Understand the major characteristics of people with intellectual disabilities and how those characteristics result in challenges to personnel throughout the criminal justice system; Learn skills to effectively interact with and/or detain individuals with intellectual disabilities; Recognize typical responses of individuals with intellectual disabilities and how such responses can be easily misinterpreted; Learn effective methods of interacting with people with intellectual disabilities who are victims of crime; Understand unique characteristics of autism and effective techniques for interacting with individuals on the autism spectrum. When/Where: May 14, 2012 Crowne Plaza Billings, Conference Room 5
27 North 27th Street
Billings MT 59101
May 17, 2012 Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital
Large Cooference Room
621 St. South
Glasgow

From the office of the child advocate from the state of Connecticut, a very thoughtful, thorough review of this young man's life and death. http://www.ct.gov/oca/lib/oca/sandyhook11212014.pdf The group points out many of the failures along the way, including reluctance of the school system to accurately classify him in the autism spectrum when he was very young, and later not identifying and addressing his social and emotional deficits. They also highlight the lack of coordination between school, health and mental health providers, which allowed him to fall through the cracks in the system. Also it clearly shows the inappropriate use of homebound school as a means to avoid addressing problems, and the lack of transition from child to adult services and the problems caused when the school system graduated him early from high school, and no longer offered services. By his final year he was clearly isolated in his room, anorectic (6 feet tall and 112 lbs.), and his only forays outside of home were to spend hours dancing on the Dance Dance Revolution game at a local theatre, so he was not hidden away, many people saw his physical and behavioral deterioration on display in a public place. This may be a helpful teaching tool, not only as a case study that documents how untreated developmental disorder can evolve into severe psychopathology, but also as a lesson in the need to coordinate school, health and mental health services, and the potential risks when it is not done.