Recent Presentations
What
Expectations are Realistic?
What is
Successful Inclusionary Education?
Peer
Presentations: The Ability in Disability
Take the
Panic Out of the IEP: Working within the System
Keeping the ‘Team’
in ‘ IEP Team Meetings’
Disability Awareness
and Expectations in Business
Presentations & trainings tailored to your needs. 90 minute to 3-6
hour workshops available.
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What kind of Expectations are Realistic? Time: 1 ½ hours
Take a fresh look at the
expectations you have for your child. Spend
time laughing, realizing, and identifying high expectations for your child, whether
they are 2, 12, or 17. During this session parents (and grandparents) of
children with disabilities will evaluate the expectations they have or don’t
have; what dreams are realistic, and how to seize that teachable moment of high
expectations. Through Kathy’s stories, examples, and life experiences,
participants will set high expectations for
their children without fear of disappointment and with sights set on a future
of hope and surprises.
Participants will:
1.
Laugh, share and create dreams and visions for a
family member
2.
Gain an understanding of the importance of expectations
3.
Be able to recognize and seize teachable moments.
4.
Learn to create opportunities to teach high
expectations
5.
Take home a list of everyday opportunities to
teach accountability and responsibility
Take away: Higher expectations for individuals with disabilities.
Peer Presentations: The Ability in Disability Time:
1 ½ hours
Introduce a child’s peers, teachers, school
staff, or scout trip to the “differences in common” that they have with a
child/student with a disability. This session is for parents, siblings,
advocates, and teachers who are interested in creating understanding, empathy,
and appropriate expectations of a peer with a disability.
Participants will:
1.
Learn the components of a successful peer
presentation
2.
Participate in hand-on simulation activities.
3.
Understand how to develop the presentation to a
student’s peer level; elementary through high school
4.
Learn how to spotlight an individual with a
disability through gifts, laughter, and understanding.
Take away:
Create and present disability awareness lessons to a range of peer age
groups.
Successful IEP Meetings: Understanding the Tool,
the Process and What You Didn’t Know. Time: 1 ½ hours
Hear from a
parent of three children with IEPs, an exceptional educator and an inclusive
education consultant. Parents and teachers, over the past 20 years, Kathy has
sat on each side of that table. Parents did you ever wonder where you start in
trying to understand the IEP and how to prepare for the meeting? What
should you do in an IEP meeting? Teachers truly are a parent’s best ally; how
do you enable that? Teachers, put on a
parent’s ears and create an effective IEP team meeting.
Participants will:
1.
Learn what a parent’s role and impact should be in the IEP meeting
2.
Learn how teachers can empower parents to be
effective IEP team MEMBERS.
3.
Thoroughly understand the IEP document and its use
as a tool.
4.
Create a “can do” instead of a “can’t do” document
5.
Learn how to negotiate
6.
Learn how to know what you don’t know
Take Away: Conduct an effective IEP team meeting.
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