WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS

Self-feeding and Low-tone Management – for SLP, OT and PT staff

Friday , March 3, 2017
9am-12pm and 1-4pm (You may attend one or both sessions)
Kenmore Middle School Black Box Theater
The Children’s Therapy Center will give a presentation on self-feeding and low-tone management for OT and PT service providers.  This continuing education session will  benefit many of the children served by OTs and PTs at APS.   APS staff can register on ERO.

Hosted by Marit Simonson, Alice Blair and Eileen O’Casey

Inclusion Workshop with Cheryl Jorgensen – March 18, 2017
For faculty, administrators, parents, students and community members.

Click here for a detailed agenda and registration.

The Magic Paintbrush Project: Creative workshops which engage the imagination, family & friends with goals and ability. Our workshops include family sessions, group sessions, peer socialization groups, sibling groups and integrated classrooms.

Combining goals and creativity, our workshops are designed to meet the needs of individuals of all ages with physical or developmental disabilities, and their caregivers.

Our programs provide inviting activities and materials that creatively engage all involved. The result is in an experience focusing on abilities that will leave a lasting impression for all. Whether you are a family, an agency or an interested community member, we can creatively meet your needs.

Unstuck and OnTarget

Video of the presentation is available to SEPTA members.

Unstuck and OnTarget: SEPTA will offer a free, intensive workshop for Arlington teachers and staff on a social skills/problem-solving program that teaches children, especially those with autism and ADHD, how to work though social challenges and manage social interactions and friendships.

This workshop will give teachers UOT’s research-based strategies to help students become more flexible, work through social challenges, and better understand the complexities of social interactions and friendships. This workshop will be presented by Monica Adler Werner, co-author of Unstuck and On Target, and Director of the Model Asperger’s Program at the Ivymount School. 

Parents, staff, students and community members are invited to attend a screening of the HBO Film: The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, followed by an overview of school and community resources available to families.   The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia provides accounts of the dyslexic experience from children, experts and iconic leaders to help us understand that dyslexia — a persistent problem with learning to read — can be as great a gift as it sometimes is an obstacle.

Video of the presentation is available to SEPTA members.

This full-day Saturday workshop, brought to you by SEPTA and the Arlington Inclusion Task Force, will provide an introductory overview of the research on including students with disabilities in the general education setting, and other reasons to educate all students together. Trainers from the Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education will also provide hands-on practical tips for including students with disabilities, including how to modify and adapt curricular materials, how to welcome all students, how to presume competence, and how to positively address behavioral disruptions. It will be geared toward general education teachers, special education teachers, and paraprofessionals, but will be open to all administrators and staff. APS parents and students will be able to attend on a space-permitting basis. APS will be providing teacher recertification points for attendance.

Conscious Discipline: This free workshop helps parents provide their children with ways to control their own behavior. It is extremely helpful for children of all ages, but can be particularly helpful to the success of young children coping with developmental delays, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other challenges.

• Unstuck and OnTarget with Monica Adler Werner

• Bullying & disability harassment, with a comprehensive presentation by former ASEAC chair, attorney and bullying foe Jack Toner.  This presentation is available under the member resource page.

• A Spanish-only presentation about special education:  Entendiendo Educacion Especial (Un taller en espanol)

• Arlington Special Education Info Night, Presentations by:
• Dr. Kristi Murphy, APS Director of Special Education Parent Resource Center
• SEPTA
• Arlington Therapeutic Rec
• ASEAC

• Getting to Yes: Family/School Relationships in the Special Education Process, a presentation by Hank Millward, Coordinator of Complaints and Family Involvement, Virginia Department of Education

• The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) will present”What’s Up With Nick”?  OAR’s Kit for Kids guide is designed to teach elementary and middle school (grades 3-8) students about their peers with autism.
• Dr. Karen Gerry, Principal of the Stratford Program
• Mr. Frank Haltiwanger, Principal of HB-Woodlawn share information about the Stratford Program and HB-Woodlawn’s Asperger’s Program 

• Dr. Kristi Murphy, Director of Special Education, will discuss the new Virginia Standards (grade level) based IEPs.
• Dr. Brian Stapleton, Assistant Principal of the Career Center, will discuss the programs available and how our visually and experientially based learners thrive.
• VA Delegate Patrick Hope will provide a legislative update for the issues that impact our community.
• The students of DARTT (Doing Art Together)  will discuss an art program created by APS teens for children with special needs to create art that they are proud of in a safe and accepting environment

• Setting up and Facilitating an Integrated Playgroup (IPG) at home Workshop.
  Presented by Tracey Greenwood with Autism Education Solutions

• Wrightslaw Special Education and Advocacy Workshop