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Students should have ready and easy access to their resumes, career portfolios, videos of work experience, task sequencing and scheduling methods, communication, and more. Learn what handheld devices and apps are being utilized to assist students as they successfully move from school to work and community. Emphasis will be on built in features, and generic and specialized apps which promote independence, communication, productivity, and inclusion. Hear what Leaving School With 21st Century Technology projects are accomplishing and how Learning Cohorts are teaching each other and spreading the word. Marsha will share stories of how school programs and the employment agencies they interact with, are interfacing and providing seamless serve delivery, using handheld devices to leverage preferred employment outcomes, independent living, and community connection.

Register here!What:Got Transition recognizes that health care transition often begins at home with preparation and planning- but where else do young people spend most of their time?  School!  Tune into this first episode of a series related to how healthcare transition might be addressed in the school setting.  In this episode, Eileen and Mallory will discuss the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process as a key element in transition, keeping it student centered, and real ways to incorporate goals related to health!When:Wednesday, February 22, 20121:00 PM - 1:30 PM MDTContact:Got Transition?Phone: 603-228-8811

You can register online here or download the flyer for more information!What:This session will begin with a description of Positive Behavior Supports focusing on the theory/background of this management strategy. The discussion will then move into a description of the processes suggested for successful implementation. The presenter will also discuss the steps for creating a proactive crisis intervention plan specific to individuals who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This will be followed with a brief look at the National Autism Center’s list of research-based interventions and identifying those that may be considered as part of a Positive Behavior Support Plan for people with ASD.Who Should Attend?This session is appropriate for job coaches, job developers, VR counselors, transition age special educators and paraeducators, employment specialists, advocates, families, non-profit leadership staff, and employers.CEUs:.15 CEUs are pending approval through Minot State University. The recording fee for MSU CEUs is $20.00. Three contact hours for ND Social Workers and nurses are also available.Technical Requirements: Participating sites need a computer with Windows ‘98 (or newer) operating system, CD-ROM drive, and PowerPoint software OR a computer with a high speed internet connection and an LCD projector if the number of participants warrants it. The call-in number is a toll free number. There will be no long distance charges for sites.When:February 16, 20128:00 am - 9:30 am Mountain TimeContact:Stacey Johnston at courtney.rockvoy@minotstateu.eduor Courtney Rockvoy at stacey.johnston@minotstateu.edu Phone: (800) 233-1737

Special Education AT Applications and assessment for disabilities - Autism    The webinar will cover the background and problem identification related to the individual, the environment and the technology. The Child’s abilities and needs will be thoroughly presented and clearly linked to impairment, functional goal/IEP and environment. A feature match will provide evidence that several options are considered. Selected technologies will be listed with justification as to why the technology is best for the student. Documentation will be provided to describe optimization for the devices and training for child and support team. Future needs will also be addressed for follow-up and future anticipated needs will be listed.

The Advocacy Institute is pleased to offer unlimited access to a selection of our Advocate Academy Webinar archives during Summer 2010. Each archive will be available for 2 weeks. Archives are 90 minutes in length. You can start, stop, pause, fast forward or rewind the recording using the controls on the ReadyTalk player. Be sure to have Adobe FLASH Player installed on your computer to view the archives!

Overview Join us on September 27 from 1:30pm to 2:30 pm (Mountain) to learn how to apply the principles of supports planning to create a meaningful system of supports for students with intellectual disability. The content draws upon best practices presented in the11th edition of Intellectual Disability: Definition, Classification, and Systems of Supports, a state-of-the-art manual on defining and classifying intellectual disability.  Intellectual Disability is published by the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

Region III CSPD, in cooperation with OPI, is offering a hands-on training for special education teachers working with students ages 15 and older. Participants will have an opportunity to network with other special education teachers and share ideas and discuss best practices. Participants are required to bring two or three student files which they will work on during the session. Teachers participating in this training are required to watch the four OPI Secondary Transition webinars located on the OPI website prior to attending the Implementing Secondary Transition: Case Study Group. Participants are required to complete a brief evaluation to document attendance and participation for each webinar.

Register Now! Early Registration $30.00 - By October 1st  After Oct 2nd -- $45.00

Dr. Jorgensen is Project Director for the Institute on Disability at The University of New Hampshire and Director of the National Inclusion Education Initiative for students with Autism or Related Disabilities. Dr. Jorgensen Outlines Steps for Genuine Classroom Inclusion, with clarity, proven research and true compassion. The time to change the vision for the future of students with autism and other related disabilities begins Oct 7th!

Learn how play deprivation is a kind of emotional and multisensory starvation and no group is more vulnerable than children who have disabilities.

The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in Education presented by Cheryl A. Theis (MA), Director of the Foster Youth with Disabilities in Transition (FYDT) and Clearinghouse and Education Advocate for the Parent Training Information Center Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF)

What: This six session series on Discovery will equip educators, adult service personnel and family members with the critical information necessary to facilitate discovery for persons with significant disabilities. This alternative to comparative assessment addresses the essential question so often overlooked by evaluations and tests, "Who is this person?" The sessions offer a comprehensive overview to discovery, the relationship to employment and transition from school to adult work, relevance to curricular outcomes and development of visual and written profile documents that capture the information learned during discovery.  When: April 4, 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9  1-2:30 p.m. Mountain More Details Download Registration Form Register Online

What: Montana Digital Academy is pleased to announce its first educational technology workshops for teachers. Join MTDA staff as we train on iOS devices in Bozeman or Missoula in June OR join the workshop remotely from any location with a discounted virtual seat! Bozeman: June 21, 2011 10:00am - 5:00pm Mountain Bozeman High School Library OR anywhere virtually To register, click here Missoula: June 30, 2011 10:00am - 5:00pm Mountain University of Montana OR anywhere virtually To register, click here

Click here to register for this event What: Participants will learn the importance of developing a comprehensive service array, what some of the critical services are, how to provide families with choice, what a provider network is, how a provider network can be organized and evaluated, benefits of having such a network, and lessons learned. When: 12:00pm -1:30pm Mountain Time June 14, 2011 Presenters: Bruce Kamradt, Childrens Mental Health Services/Wraparound Milwaukee

Click here to Register - Registration will close at 5:00 p.m. ET 6/ 21/2011 What: The SAMHSA ADS Center invites you to a free training teleconference to learn how consumers/survivors of mental health and substance use conditions are working together with private and public officials to make socially inclusive systems across many dimensions of community life—housing, employment, education, arts and culture, transportation, civic and entrepreneurial leadership, health and recreation. Speakers will provide strategies for building diverse collaborations to map community assets and discover individual capacities that benefit communities and the delivery of social services. As a participant in this teleconference, you will see that social inclusion is achievable and learn how YOU can be part of the change. When: Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time

Click here to download the registration form for this event (PDF) What: Recent studies indicate that the rate of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in children with Down syndrome (DS) is higher than previously reported. Early detection of ASD is critical because early intervention has been associated with more favorable child outcomes and therefore, the presence of ASD in a child with DS has implications for treatment and special education decisions. However, identifying ASD in children with DS is difficult because of overlapping symptoms, the presence of cognitive and language delays and deficits, and other developmental factors. Moreover, little is known about what autism assessment measures are valid for use with children with DS. This talk reviews the various issues surrounding the accurate identification of ASD in children with DD and presents a set of considerations to assist evaluators in selecting appropriate screening and diagnostic assessment protocols. When: May 18, 2011 1:00-2:30pm Mountain