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Were you taught SEE by someone who didn't really understand the purpose and features of SEE? Maybe you tried to teach yourself from the "yellow book." Do you want to sign: more meaningfully and fluently? using all the visual features of sign language? Don't miss the next Signing Exact English weekend skillshop! Join the small classes customized to your learning needs. Interpreters, parents, teachers, assistants, and others wishing to improve their vocabulary, fluency, and expressive and receptive abilities are grouped according to skill level from barely beginner to intermediate to advanced.  Ideally, the workshop will have 45-50 participants and five instructors per small group.

Attend the upcoming Bookshare webinar titled, “How to get my child accessible textbooks,” and learn: What is the NIMAC? Who is eligible for NIMAC textbooks? How do students get access to NIMAC textbooks through Bookshare? What can parents do to help qualified children? This webinar takes place Wednesday, September 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM MT. Attend the live broadcast or sign up to receive a post-webinar recording. Register today!

August 2010 - Developing Family Stories: Moving the Backstory to the Forefront The child laughs easily. She can paint with brilliant colors. He can recite the statistics for every baseball team in every league for the past decade. She wants to help. He wants to make friends. But those aren’t the things that friends and relatives and teachers seem to notice. Instead, they focus on the delays, the sometimes inappropriate behavior, the extra work needed to deal with Jennifer or Jason’s disabilities, their differences. Pretty soon, Jennifer and Jason are seen as their disabilities. The labels assigned in order to qualify for services become their identity.

What: A seven-chapter, video intensive, parent training program designed by the Love and Logic® Institute, Inc. This parenting program is designed to give you practical skills that can be used immediately! Answers to: “How do I get them out of bed in time to catch the school bus?” “How can I stop my children from bickering and fighting?” “How do I get my children to help with the chores without an argument?” “Is there a way to discipline my toddler in public without creating a scene?” “How can I get my teenage daughter to come home at the agreed-upon time?” And many other day-to-day parenting challenges… This parenting program is designed to give you practical skills that can be used immediately! Dates: January & February Wednesdays (12th-23rd) Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (or as agreed by class) Local Phone: 939-5591 Location: Glendive - To Be Announced (Visit the MCYF Facebook group for updated information) Cost: $20 for book – scholarships available E-mail: mcyf@midrivers.com

Telling stories by building comic strips is a way to strengthen struggling students' emerging English-language skills and make the difficult job of language learning a much more enjoyable experience. Comic strips are a perfect vehicle for learning a language. Each strip's three or four panels provide a finite, accessible world in which funny or compelling characters live and go about their lives. And readers with limited reading skills are not as overwhelmed in dealing with the size of a comic strip as they can be with a book of many pages.

Cary Griffin knows all sides of the job development issues.  He has worked with U.S. Department of Labor as well as a myriad of state and federal agencies.  For two decades he has   been a consultant  building communities of economic cooperation, creating high performance organizations, and focusing on disability and employment.  He has co-authored several books      about creating meaningful work opportunities for people with disabilities.

Amazon is making some enhancements to its Kindle electronic reader, aimed at improving the reading experience for people who are blind, visually impaired, or dyslexic.

The AmeriGlide Achiever Scholarship is a program we offer to full time college students who use wheelchairs. Our goal is to help provide financial assistance for books or other school related supplies to deserving mobility challenged students. This $500 scholarship is available twice a year for the Fall and Spring Semesters.

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell) School-Age Financial Aid program is for students ages 6 to 21 years who are registered or currently enrolled in a parochial, independent or private school in a mainstream setting. Awards can be used to reduce educational costs such as tuition, room and board, books, equipment, auditory and speech language support services, academic tutoring, transportation, and other school-related expenses. This award is not applicable for students who are being homeschooled, or those who attend public school, or are in college.

The A.T.TIPScast: Assistive Technology Tools In Public Schools is a podcast about using technology to help students meet their educational goals.

Looking for engaging ways to introduce your child to reading or to encourage your teen to write? Need some age-appropriate book suggestions or rainy day activities? The materials here are your answer—all of them created by experts to be fun, educational, and easy to use outside of school.

ScienceDaily (Apr. 17, 2010) — To help children become better readers, a Kansas State University professor thinks they may 'need to spend less time with their noses stuck in books.

We receive many questions from parents, teachers, and health care providers about special education services for children with autism. If you are a parent, you need to educate yourself about your child's disability, effective educational methods and medical treatments, and how to present your child's problems and needs to school staff so they want to help. On the Autism, PDD & Asperger Syndrome page, you will find FAQs, articles, legal resources, recommended books, free publications, and a short list of information and support groups.

Humans are pattern-seeking primates whose brains evolved to look for and find meaningful patterns in the noise and chaos of nature. When we connect A to B, this process is called learning. Sometimes A really is connected to B, and sometimes it is not. The only reliable way to know for sure is via the scientific method. The problem is that our brains were designed millions of years ago, but science is only a few hundred years old. One of the most nefarious anecdotal patterns in recent years has been a seeming connection between autism and vaccines. Parents whose children are diagnosed with autism (A) search for a probable cause; they remember that they had their children vaccinated (B) and forgivably assume that the correlation is causal. These parents worry for their children, enough sometimes to sue the companies that manufacture the vaccines. But collectively they could contribute to a public-health disaster if enough parents were to stop vaccinating their children and communities began to suffer a return of communicable diseases once thought to be routed.