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Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center
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Highlights
Hands-On Assistive Technology Lab:
Featuring Keynote Presenters:
Exhibits:
Micah Fialka-Feldman
Silent Auction, Friday, February 12:
Douglas Fisher
The Karaoke Extravaganza, Friday Night:
Presented by
Abbey Heins
Roberto Rivera
Welcome!
Here are a few things we’d like to draw your attention to:
Your nametag is your ticket to all conference We value your input and want to hear from you!
sessions and meals. Please wear it at all times. Please be sure to complete the conference evaluation
included in your conference packet. Your feedback
Complimentary Parking provides important information for planning future
Complimentary parking is available for all conference conferences.
attendees in the parking garage attached to the Hyatt.
Be sure to pick up a validation ticket at the conference Exhibit Marketplace
registration table—you’ll need one for each time you Grand Mesa Atrium (Second Floor)
leave the parking garage. Visit the exhibit marketplace and browse the variety
of organizations, educational resources and products,
Hands-On Assistive Technology Lab and fun gifts. This year we are excited to have so many
Rooms: Thunder Pass and Bristlecone self-advocate business entrepreneurs showcasing their
Stop by the interactive Assistive Technology lab and products – be sure to check them out! See page 10 for
explore various assistive technology options and devices the listing of exhibitors in 2010.
including adapted computer software, alternate keyboards
and mice, and low and high tech communication devices. Credit
Speak with experts in the field of assistive technology Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available based
and try out devices from vendors including Words Plus, on the clock hours of the conference agenda. CEUs are
Dynavox, Saltillo Corporation, PRC, and more in this designed to meet the requirement for Colorado teachers
helpful, hands-on, welcoming lab! renewing their teacher licenses. Certificates will be
available at the registration table at the end of the day
Silent Auction Thursday and Saturday.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Mesa Verde Foyer (First Floor) Participants attending all three days of the conference
Come bid on the incredible variety of items at PEAK’s are eligible to apply for two graduate or undergraduate
8th annual Silent Auction! Items include an iPod Nano, college credits at a cost of $120. These credits are
artwork, weekend getaways, wine and other gift baskets, available through the University of Colorado at Colorado
jewelry, lighting fixtures, spa packages and much more! Springs (UCCS). Additional information is included in your
Don’t miss this excellent shopping opportunity. And, conference packet and a representative from UCCS will be
100% of the proceeds help fund future conferences and on-site for limited hours to answer questions.
forward the mission of PEAK Parent Center. Bidding opens
at 10:15 am and closes at 6:15 pm leaving plenty of time Getting Around Denver
to bid on the great bargains! The Hyatt has a complimentary shuttle that operates
within a 5-mile radius of the hotel. Additionally, Denver
PEAK Sales Table & DVD Sales of Keynote has a Light Rail public transportation system with over 30
Presentations convenient stations on several lines to get you anywhere
Visit the PEAK sales table in the exhibit area and purchase you want to go in Denver! Light rail cars are wheelchair
books and DVDs from various conference presenters and accessible. There is a Light Rail station within walking
other leading experts in the fields of inclusive and best- distance of the Hyatt and maps will be available at the
practice educational strategies. The PEAK sales table conference registration table.
is also the spot to purchase DVDs of select Keynote
Presentations from 2010 which will be filmed. Place Too busy to shop on-site?
an order for your favorite keynote today! No problem! Visit www.PEAKparent.org and check out
our online store jam-packed with research-based, best-
practice publications and videos that improve outcomes
and expand possibilities for all diverse learners. And, in
addition to the online-store, our website has lots of helpful
information and resources about a variety of hot topics!
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Agenda at a Glance:
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Topical Institutes – Pre-Conference
8:00–10:00 am Registration – Grand Mesa Foyer
8:00–9:00 am Coffee – Grand Mesa Foyer
9:00 am–12:00 pm Topical Institutes (1 thru 7)
(Morning Break 10:30-10:45 am)
12:00–1:00 pm Lunch – Grand Mesa DEF
12:00–4:30 pm Exhibits Open – Grand Mesa Atrium
12:00–4:30 pm Assistive Technology Lab Open – Thunder Pass & Bristlecone
1:00–4:00 pm Topical Institutes (1 thru 7) Continue
(Afternoon Break 2:30-2:45 pm)
Friday, February 12, 2010
General Conference Begins
7:00–10:00 am Registration – Grand Mesa Foyer
7:00 am–5:30 pm Exhibits Open – Grand Mesa Atrium
7:00 am–5:30 pm Assistive Technology Lab Open – Thunder Pass & Bristlecone
7:00–8:00 am Coffee – Grand Mesa Foyer
8:00–10:15 am General Session – Grand Mesa Ballroom
Keynote Presentation: Roberto Rivera
10:15 – 10:30 am Break, AT Lab, & Exhibit Time
Out of respect 10:15 am – 6:15 pm Silent Auction Bidding Open – Mesa Verde Foyer (1st Floor)
to our presenters and 10:30 am – 12:00 pm 90-Minute Concurrent Sessions (1 thru 8)
participants, we ask 12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch – Grand Mesa Ballroom
that you please 1:00 – 2:00 pm General Session – Grand Mesa Ballroom
SILENCE the ringer on Keynote Presentation: Douglas Fisher
your cell phones prior 2:00 – 2:15 pm Break, Silent Auction, AT Lab, & Exhibit Time
to entering sessions. 2:15 – 3:45 pm 90-Minute Concurrent Sessions (9 thru 16)
Your attention to this 3:45 – 4:00 pm Break, Silent Auction, AT Lab, & Exhibit Time
is appreciated! 4:00 – 5:30 pm 90-Minute Concurrent Sessions (17 thru 23)
5:30 – 6:15 pm Silent Auction Final Bidding and Networking Hour with Cash
Bar – Mesa Verde Foyer (1st Floor)
8:30 pm – Midnight Karaoke Extravaganza – Centennial Room (12th Floor)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
General Conference Continues with Keynotes and Mastery Sessions
7:30 – 10:00 am Registration – Grand Mesa Foyer
7:30 am – 2:30 pm Exhibits Open – Grand Mesa Atrium
7:30 am – 2:30 pm Assistive Technology Lab – Thunder Pass & Bristlecone
7:30 – 8:00 am Coffee – Grand Mesa Foyer
8:00 – 9:45 am General Sessions – Grand Mesa Ballroom
Keynote Presentations:
1. Micah Fialka-Feldman with Alex Cherup
2. Abbey Heins
9:45 – 10:00 am Break, AT Lab & Exhibit Time
10:00 am – 2:30 pm Mastery Sessions (1 thru 7)
12:00 – 12:30 pm Boxed lunches served – Grand Mesa DEF
2:30 pm Close of Conference
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Topical Institutes – Thursday Pre-Conference
Thursday, February 11, 2010
8:00-10:00 am Registration – Grand Mesa Foyer
8:00-9:00 am Coffee – Grand Mesa Foyer
9:00 am - 12:00 pm Topical Institutes (1 thru 7)
(Morning Break 10:30-10:45 am)
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch – Grand Mesa DEF
12:00-4:30 pm Exhibits Open – Grand Mesa Atrium
Assistive Technology Lab Open – Thunder Pass & Bristlecone
1:00-4:00 pm Topical Institutes (1 thru 7) Continue
(Afternoon Break 2:30-2:45 pm)
Please note that pre-registration was required for these institutes. If you are uncertain of what session you
registered for please check at the registration table. Rooms were assigned based on pre-registration numbers, so please
attend the session you originally signed up for. Thank you and enjoy!
Session 1 – “Seeing My Gifts of Great Ability:” Successful Inclusion for Students with Autism/
Aspergers
Christi Kasa-Hendrickson, Blair Brown, Xenia K. Grant, and Stephen Hinkle
Room: Chasm Creek
Session 2 – Daring to Dream the Inclusive Dream: Utilizing Our Collective Power to Include
Julie Causton-Theoharis
Room: Mesa Verde
Session 3 – Igniting the Fire Early: The Sooner We Start, The Farther They Go!
Sandy Ginther, Abbey Heins, and Linda Robinson
Room: Wind River
Session 4 – Navigating the IDEA World: Current Legal Trends, Topics, and Cases
Elena M. Gallegos
Room: Wind Star
Session 5 – Response-to-Intervention (RTI): Big Ideas in Implementing Multi-Tiered, Coordinated
Early Intervening Services for Academics and Behavior
Mark Shinn
Room: Grand Mesa B
Session 6 – Parent Leaders CAN Influence Systems Change
Connie Hawkins and Debra Jennings
Room: Grand Mesa C
Session 7 – Inclusive Positive Behavior Support (PBS) Strategies for All Students
Karen Childs
Room: Grand Mesa A
DON’T FORGET: Please
complete the conference
evaluation included in
your packet!
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General Conference – Friday
Friday Morning, February 12, 2010 classrooms to be like, and how parents and teachers can best
support them. The workshop includes footage from several
documentary films including a forthcoming documentary in
which two men with autism travel around the world, putting
a new face on the meaning of autism and possibility. Suggested
audience: parents, educators, community service professionals, researchers,
people with disabilities and all others interested in the topic.
Session 3 – Early Childhood Transitions for Children and
Families: Strategies for Success
Keynote Presentation: Laura Merrill, Ellen Daniels, and Jodee Mack Hess
Igniting Youth Voice and Sparking Room: Mesa Verde A
Transformational, Lasting Change This interactive presentation will focus on the process of
Roberto Rivera, Chicago, Illinois transition at age 3 for young children who have Individualized
Roberto Rivera is an artist, educator, and Family Service Plans (IFSPs) and their families. We will explore
change agent who specializes in applying best practices in the relationships among children, families, and staff and their
engaging youth using practical and relevant methods. He is roles and responsibilities in facilitating smooth transitions. The
also the President and Lead Change Agent of The Good Life format of this session will include video, discussion, review of
Organization. a sample transition plan, and group activities. Come prepared
to look at transition in a new way. Suggested audience: family
members, professionals, and others interested in transition at age 3.
Session 4 – RTI Squared: Response to Intervention AND
Instruction in Elementary
Room:Wind Star
Intervention can’t be used as a means to fix an ineffective core
Session 1 – Keynote Breakout: Hip-hop Meets Best program. This session focuses on making Tiers 1, 2, and 3 in
Practices in Engaging Youth elementary schools strong through research-based instruction,
Room: Grand Mesa ABC progress monitoring, and collaboration between professionals
This workshop will allow participants to understand the and families. Suggested audience: grades K-5 general and special
unique challenges and opportunities teens growing up in educators and administrators and families.
America today are facing. It will provide a basis for examining
Session 5 – Expanding Pathways for Comprehension
how best practices in engaging youth can be implemented
Suzette Youngs and Lindsey Guccione
in culturally relevant ways that emancipate and engage them.
Room:Wind River
Making a case for journeying together in challenging the status
This session will introduce how visual literacy can enhance
quo, this workshop is guaranteed to encourage, challenge, and
comprehension and oral language development for struggling
inspire participants using dialogue, mixed media, and creative
readers. Presenters will model specific instructional strategies
writing. Suggested audience: youth workers, educators, and counselors.
for parents and teachers to use to encourage readers to attend
Session 2 – Rethinking Autism from the Inside Out: to text and visual images while constructing meaning with
Lessons for Families and Educators contemporary picturebooks and expository texts. This session
Room: Mesa Verde BC is designed to help participants broaden their understandings
The language of public policy, program fundraising, and of the use of picturebooks in comprehension instruction and
research related to autism imitates war – in 2006 former expand their interpretive perspectives regarding the visual and
President George W. Bush signed into law the Combating verbal elements of various text types. Suggested audience: Parents
Autism Act. Public pronouncements about autism declare it and teachers (K-12).
a scourge to be stopped, a “disorder” to be erased, a ticking
time bomb. Nowhere in most autism accounts are the voices Session 6 – Families As Advocates—Taking Involvement
of people who identify as autistic in evidence; dominant to the Next Level
narratives of autism silence them. This workshop will contrast Connie Hawkins and Debra Jennings
the debilitating, dominant public discourse of autism with Room: Chasm Creek A
a vibrant and instructive counter narrative that has begun This session will demonstrate the importance and power of
to emerge from people with the autism classification. The the family’s role as advocates for students. The new changes
presenter will explore what people with autism are saying in IDEA regarding parental consent will be outlined and
about what they find most helpful, what they want schools and continued next page
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(cont.)
parent advocacy strategies and skills will be shared. Family Session 9 – Keynote Breakout: Guided Instruction:
members and professionals will benefit from this positive Questions, Prompts, and Cues for Success
session, being reminded of the many roles family members Room: Grand Mesa ABC
can play and the critical importance of having family voices Students require scaffolds to be successful; it’s a well known
and perspectives at the table. Suggested audience: parents, parent fact. But, what are those scaffolds and how can teachers use
liaisons, administrators, and other school personnel involved in school them to ensure that all students are successful? In this session,
and family communication. we focus on implementing systematic guided instruction in
which the teacher uses questions to check for understanding,
Session 7 – Effective Classroom Management to Support prompts to facilitate cognitive and metacognitive work, cues
Student Engagement and Academic Achievement to divert the learner’s attention, and direct explanations to
Room: Highlands resolve errors and misunderstandings. This complex set
The most effective approach to classroom management is to of instructional moves ensures that students experience
create a learner centered classroom where students are actively productive success as they develop competence and
engaged in their own learning. This session will provide a confidence. Suggested audience: general and special education
framework for developing proactive classroom management teachers and administrators, and parents.
with specific ways to incorporate individual plans. Participants
will use a toolbox of strategies during this interactive session. Session 10 – Rethinking Homework: Strategies to Make
Suggested audience: parents, special education and general education Elementary Homework More Meaningful
teachers preschool through 12th grade, psychologists, and social workers. Room: Mesa Verde BC
How can parents and teachers work together to help
Session 8 – What Is This Talking Box and Why Am I The elementary students develop the habit of homework? This
Teacher Expected To Use It? Effective Use of an AAC session will address quality homework assignments, how
Device in an Inclusive Setting homework should be prioritized and differentiated for
Room: Chasm Creek B individual students, and why providing feedback about
In this session, participants will learn strategies and techniques homework is preferable to grading. Participants will discuss
that have been successfully used with students who use an classroom and at-home strategies that improve homework
AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) device completion. Examples of best practices including homework
in inclusive settings. Come and explore creative ways to support programs will be shared. Suggested audience: grades K-5
implement an AAC device into your lessons plan. If you are parents, general and special education teachers and administrators, and
struggling with programming demands, staff expectations, and related service providers.
support of AAC devices, this session is for you. You will learn
ways to help a student learn the curriculum and use their Session 11 – Supporting Comprehensive Literacy
device in unison. Suggested audience: general and special education Opportunities For All Beginning in Early Childhood
teachers and administrators, parents, paraprofessionals, and others Amy Peterson, Chris Kliewer, Amy Schoeppner,
involved in supporting students in the classroom. Michelle Hinzman, Susie Lund, and Jennifer Walz
Garrett Room:Wind River All
In this interactive workshop, participants will actively engage
Friday Early Afternoon in reconceptualizing emergent literacy in a manner that
fosters written language and communication development
for all children. A model for supporting comprehensive
early literacy development will be described and supported
through numerous examples, video, and discussion.
Keynote Presentation:
Participants will brainstorm actions to pursue in a new
Strengthening the Core: Building A movement: Communication Can’t Wait! No child will exit
Successful Tier 1 Effort preschool without a progressive communication system and
comprehensive access to early literacy opportunities. Suggested
Doug is a Professor of Language and Literacy
audience: families that include children with significant developmental
Education in the Department of Teacher Education at San
Diego State University and a classroom teacher at Health
disabilities, educators teaching young children and elementary aged
Sciences High & Middle College, a charter school in San Diego. students, and researchers.
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REMEMBER:
Everyone must wear a name
tag to attend sessions!
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General Conference – Friday Sessions
Session 12 – RTI Squared: Response to Intervention Session 16 – Reframing the Brain: Honoring Cognitive
AND Instruction in Secondary Diversity and Creativity
Nancy Frey Room:Wind Star Philippe Ernewein and a panel of students from The
Middle and high schools are struggling with how to design and Denver Academy Room: Chasm Creek B
implement an RTI program that meets the needs of adolescent The mind is a roadmap and some of our students follow
learners. This session will focus on the challenges and unsuccessful routes that lead them to dead ends or wrong
possibilities of RTI at the secondary level, and on the way one addresses. By starting to reframe and rewrite the diagnosis that
high school has implemented an innovative means for meeting are placed on our students, we can start to move away from
the needs of all students. Suggested audience: grades 6-12 general the deficit model education. As Ken Robinson has written,
and special educators and administrators and families. we need to stop asking how smart our students are and start
asking how they are smart. Suggested audience: parents, general
Session 13 – Extracurricular Inclusion and the Hidden and special education teachers, self-advocates, related service providers,
Curriculum paraprofessionals, and administrators.
Stephen Hinkle Room: Highlands
Join Stephen, a self-advocate with autism, as he outlines a
path for teachers to follow in teaching the fun side of school.
Friday Late Afternoon
Explore the world of extracurricular activities, recreation,
leisure, school spirit, social skills, friendships, manners, and
the other skills needed for a child to succeed in the “hidden
curriculum.” You will learn this from the perspective of
someone who had to overcome many challenges in this area
when he was in school! Suggested audience: parents, self-advocates, Session 17 – Rethinking Homework: Strategies to Make
general and special educators, paraprofessionals, and community Secondary Homework More Meaningful
members. Cathy Vatterott Room: Mesa Verde BC
How can parents and teachers work together to improve
Session 14 – Proactive Planning for the IEP Team with homework completion for middle school and high school
Differentiated Instruction (Students, Parents, Teachers, students? How can parents wean their children off adult
Related Support Personnel) help and develop independence in the homework process?
Janet Sauer Room: Chasm Creek A This session will discuss quality homework tasks for middle
Participants will explore approaches to differentiating and high school students, differentiating and prioritizing of
instruction and how assumptions influence those approaches. subjects for individual students, and reasonable approaches to
The presenter will demystify differentiation and illustrate late policies and grading of homework. The role of the school
models and examples of daily lesson plans for different content in providing structured homework support programs will be
areas and age groups. Participants will work in small groups discussed and examples of successful support programs will be
to brainstorm general inclusive practices, and then move shared. Suggested audience: grades 6-12 parents, general and special
on to possible planned and spontaneous adaptations and education teachers and administrators, and related service providers.
modifications. (Bring your current IEP or a lesson plan if you
have one.) Suggested audience: IEP teams are encouraged to attend. Session 18 – Effective Communication that Really Works
Teachers, parents, related support personnel and self-advocates are all Jacey Tramutt Room:Wind Star
welcome. Do you ever leave a conversation with your child’s teacher or
IEP team, family member, or other loved one and wonder,
Session 15 – Cultural Competency: What Does It Mean? “How did that conversation happen?” or think, “That
Why Is It Important to Parents and Professionals? person did not understand what I was trying to say at all!”
Jeanette Cordova Room: Mesa Verde A Communicating clearly and effectively is not an inherent
In this session, participants will gain an understanding of what skill- it is something that we need to learn and practice.
cultural competency really is and why it is important to them. Using the remarkable work of Marshall Rosenberg, we will
They will also learn steps to take to begin the process of being explore the fundamentals of what it means to be an effective
culturally aware. In addition they will learn how to understand communicator by learning a 4-step communication process
and respond to cultural differences in an empowering and and then practicing that process throughout the session.
positive way. Suggested audience: parents and professionals. Suggested audience: this session is appropriate for everyone- teachers,
administrators, parents, students, advocates, paraprofessionals, etc.
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Session 19 – SpecialQuest Birth-Five: A Professional to interact with these two great people. This session will
Development Approach to Early Childhood Inclusion provide insight for families and educators of young people of
Laura Merrill and Geneva Hallett Room: Highlands all ages. Suggested audience: self-advocates, parents, educators, and
Come learn about how you can use the SpecialQuest other service providers.
Birth-Five approach and materials, and online training
library to promote early childhood inclusive practices in your Session 23 – Restraint Rules: A Parent and Educator-
community! This session will detail how you can infuse this Friendly Explanation of Colorado’s Law
approach within your professional development and service Elizabeth Collard and Jennifer Levin Room: Chasm
systems! We will share ways we may collaborate to provide Creek B
high quality inclusive services for young children with The Legal Center (Colorado’s Protection and Advocacy
disabilities and their families. Suggested audience: parents, trainers, System) has been conducting restraint investigations since
consultants, coaches, higher education, administrators and other 2007. In this session, two Legal Center attorneys will present
relationship-based professional development providers. all you need to know about the newly amended Restraint
Rules. They will cover definitions – of different types of
Session 20 – Technology As A Support In Literacy restraint, and of “emergency.” In addition, they will discuss
Instruction For Students With Disabilities: Examples the role of parental consent under the new Rules, the new
From The Field That Tie Theory To Practice notice requirements, and staff training. Suggested audience:
Amy Staples, Evette Edmister, Ashton Donahue, and parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys.
Krista Sabatos Room:Wind River
Making use of video taken in classrooms as well a mass of
collected instructional materials and adaptations, participants
will be invited to see how children with disabilities can Friday Night Festivities
become active members of research-based comprehensive
literacy instruction in a range of classrooms. In particular, we
will present a comprehensive model of literacy instruction
and recommend a decision-making model for considering
how technology, both instructional and assistive, can enhance
the learning process and increase access to the general
curriculum. This session draws extensively from several
clinical and ethnographic research projects. Suggested audience:
families with young and elementary aged children, Early Childhood Karaoke Extravaganza
educators, and teachers of primary-aged children.
Session 21 – Leveling the Playing Field Through the Use
of Accommodations and Modifications
Janey Henkel Room: Grand Mesa ABC
This session will provide practical strategies regarding the
most effective use of modifications and accommodations
in general education and special education classrooms to
maximize the learning of all students. Participants will learn
about appropriate testing, differentiated instruction, multiple
intelligences, what the law says about accommodations and
modifications, and much more! Suggested audience: parents,
general education teachers, and special education teachers.
Session 22 – Taking Charge: Listening to the Voice of DON’T FORGET: Please complete
Empowered Self-Advocates the conference evaluation included
Amy Flynn and Jesús Castillo, moderated by Beth in your packet!
Schaffner Room: Chasm Creek A
How do you find and use your “voice” to take control of
your life? These two young adults with disabilities will share
their personal perspectives about their journeys toward self-
empowerment and the person-centered planning supports
that have helped them along the way. Participants will get
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Saturday, February 13, 2010 Session 2 – Making Paraprofessional and Adult Support
Most Effective in the Inclusive Classroom
Julie Causton-Theoharis and Christi Kasa-
Room: Grand Mesa ABC
This interactive presentation focuses on supporting students
in the inclusive classroom. Topics include: how to effectively
support students academically, behaviorally, and socially. We
will explore increasing independence, fading support, and
peer interdependence. This session is a must for everyone
who wants to improve classroom support and will be filled
with useful ideas that you can take and utilize to make
your classrooms more inclusive. Suggested audience: all special
Keynote Presentations: The education teachers, general education teachers, paraprofessionals,
Results of Inclusion: Lessons from related service providers, students or parents.
Those Carrying the Torch
Session 3 – The Individualized Education Program (IEP):
1. Through the Same Door: Inclusion A Tool For Realizing Possibilities
Includes College: The Journey of Room:Wind River
Micah Fialka-Feldman and his Participants of this interactive workshop will learn
Community what IDEA 2004 says about IEPs and explore tools and
strategies that make the IEP a productive and strengths-
based process that ensures students with disabilities have
Micah is a college student at Oakland meaningful access to rich general education curriculum
University in Rochester, Michigan and Self-
with the individualized supports they need to be successful.
Advocate with a cognitive disability.
Effective IEPs require knowledge of IDEA 2004, planning,
a willingness to collaborate, a strengths-based focus, and
2. Give IT a Chance
advocacy strategies. Parents will leave feeling empowered,
Abbey is a self-advocate with Down ready to take a more active role in their child’s IEP.
syndrome, a Board Member of the Central Educators will learn new ways to connect and collaborate
Illinois Down Syndrome Organization and with parents and tips for developing strength-based IEPs.
is contracted with The Alliance, an Illinois Together, participants will develop student profiles, discover
Self-Advocacy group. how focusing on strengths and needs can positively
impact goals, consider impacts of placement and the Least
Restrictive Environment, and much more. Suggested audience:
parents, educators, paraprofessionals, related service providers, and all
involved in students’ IEPs.
Session 4 – Creative Solutions! Using Peers to Provide
Support at Middle and High Schools
Rebecca Bond-Brooks and Elizabeth Castagnera
Session 1 – Youth Leadership Session: Language, Room: Highlands
Identity and Power Are you looking for ways to provide support to students
Room: Chasm Creek A included in general education classes? We have the solution!
This interactive workshop will allow youth to learn more Utilizing peers to provide support has been found to be a
about the challenges and opportunities facing them today. useful, effective strategy that benefits all students. Learn from
It will make a case for how they can reclaim their language two high school inclusion support teachers key strategies in
and identities that allow them to utilize youth culture to developing a successful peer tutor elective course, including
powerfully shape the world around them. This workshop course development, peer trainings, and inclusion strategies.
will involve elements of mixed media, creative writing, small Suggested audience: parents, administrators, general and special
group work, and performance. Suggested audience: students educators, paraprofessionals, and other related services with students
with and without disabilities only please. transitioning to or in middle/high school.
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Did you enjoy the 2010
Sessions – Saturday Conference? Would you
like to see it continue
Session 5 – How Assistive Technology Can Ignite A Young Child’s in future years?
Potential
Room:Wind Star Then consider making a tax-deductible
If you’ve ever wondered if technology is appropriate for young children, donation to PEAK Parent Center. Stop
please join us for a lively discussion and demonstration. This session by the Registration Table to donate
will address assistive technology strategies and materials to consider on-site, or visit our website at
when designing the environment and activities for young children. www.PEAKparent.org and donate
Considerations for universal design will also be discussed. Information online. Thank you in advance for your
on laws related to assistive technology and universal design, and resources support of this conference and the work
for materials will be provided. Application of materials, ranging from low of PEAK Parent Center.
to high-tech, will be demonstrated. Suggested audience: parents and those
who work in Early Childhood settings and/or with young children.
Save the Date!
Session 6 – Promoting Membership in the General Education
Classroom, Participation in General Education Instruction,
and Learning General Education Curriculum for Students with
Significant Disabilities
Room: Mesa Verde
Five core elements of inclusive education will be the focus of this
session: presumed competence, membership, participation, learning, and
collaborative teaming. Through case studies, video/photo, and lessons
from 30 years of research and practice, this session will explore the
five core elements in meaningful and measurable terms, and provide
participants with practical tools for making progress! Suggested audience: for PEAK’s 2011 Conference
general education teachers, special education teachers, related service providers (SLP,
on Inclusive Education
OT), parents, administrators, paraprofessionals, and consultants.
February 10 – 12, 2011
Session 7 – Inclusive Postsecondary Education
Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities Denver, Colorado
Stephanie Smith Lee, Micah Fialka-Feldman, and
Room: Chasm Creek B
Participants will learn about exciting new inclusive postsecondary
education opportunities for students with intellectual disabilities. An
overview of currently available services and possible funding sources
will be provided. Strategies for successful state-wide efforts will be
discussed, with real-life successes highlighted. Micah will offer a
student’s perspective on key issues, and Micah’s father Rich will share
his experiences as a parent. New provisions in the Higher Education
Opportunity Act allowing eligibility for financial aid and authorizing
model demonstration programs and a national coordinating center will
be discussed, as well as resources available through recently-funded
federal projects. The session will provide interactive opportunities for
discussion. Suggested audience: all participants interested in developing or
enhancing postsecondary education opportunities in their states and localities.
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PEAK Parent Center Thanks the Following
Individuals and Groups
2010 Conference Co-Sponsors: 2010 Conference Exhibitors:
Innovative Sponsors: Session Sponsors: Adam’s Camp
Beads and Baubles
Division for Developmental Carolyn Betts You Can!
Disabilities Council College Living Experience
Discovery Toys
Education Collaborators: Future Horizons, Inc.
Unit, Colorado Department of JFK Partners
Association The Legal Center for People with
Education
Disabilities and Older People
Lindseymade Originals
Springs, School of Education Lopsided Heart Creations
Education Supporters: PEAK Parent Center
Regis University
Ryan’s Cards
Tinman Productions
District 12 Wait 4 Me, LLC
Flying Horse Foundation Conference Team Contributors:
Laura Ayres Wayla Murrow
Special Education Department Pam Christy Susan Mustain
Salena DiMatteo Amy Mushall
Rehabilitation
Velvet Entz Hallie Neidenthal
Andy Gross Sheri Pangallo
Univeristy of South Florida,
Bonnie Gross Jill Pidcock
St. Petersburg
Jackie Gross Karen Rutledge
Susan Gustafson Beth Schaffner
Disabilities and Older People
Jamie Harmon Rob Schaffner
Melinda Harmon Jenny Snyder
Simone Herrera Ginger Stringer
Medicine Gretchen Holland Shirley Swope
Patricia Maycott Jacey Tramutt
Contributors: Shelly McCrary
District 8 PEAK Parent Center Board of
Directors:
Christi Kasa-Hendrickson
2010 Conference Presenters: 2010 Assistive Technology Lab: Gerry Olvey
See the full listing of presenters, along Roger Holt Nancy Ventrudo*
with contact information, on the CD Liz Castagnera Shelly McCrary*
of Electronic Handouts provided in Assistive Technology Inc., Tobi ATI Sarah Billerbeck*
your packet! Dynavox Mayer-Johnson Joyce Dickinson*
Prentke Romich Company Douglas Fisher
Saltillo Corporation Mike Muldoon
Words Plus Sandi Patrick-Hendricks*
Conference Planners: Barbara Buswell*, Executive Director
Sarah Billerbeck Mike Muldoon
* Indicates parent of a child with a
Barbara Buswell Nancy Ventrudo
disability or self-advocate.
Doug Fisher Bronwen Buswell
Julie Harmon
Christi Kasa-Hendrickson
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“Education is not the
filling of a pail, but the
lighting of a fire.”
- William Butler Yeats
Thank you for attending!
We hope the information, skills,
strategies, and tools you gained from
this conference help to ignite the
promise of education in all your learners.
PEAK Parent Center
Helping Families, Helping Children, Changing Lives
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