Parent Center Updates

Arkansas PTI Training Coordinator Receives Award 

PEAL Center Executive Director Honored by Education Law Center of Pennsylvania

Spanish Glossary of Education Terms

Announcements & News

TA&D Center of the Month: State Implementation and Scaling-Up of Evidence-Based Practices (SISEP)

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

Resources

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability Youth Briefs

Bookshare Parent Resources

U.S. Department of Education Guidance on Physical Education for Students with Disabilities

Supporting the Social Well-Being of Children and Youth with Disabilities

National Children's Mental Health Report Card

Technology

Online Event Registration Tools

Thanking Donors Through Technology

Parent Center Updates

Arkansas PTI Training Coordinator Receives Award

Shelby Knight from the Arkansas Disability Coalition will be honored with a “Spirit of Sparc” award at a fundraiser for the Specialty Pediatric & Autism Resource Center on November 5^th. She is being recognized for her many years of parent advocacy work in the community. Congratulations Shelby! Learn more about the Arkansas Disability Coalition, directed by Wanda Horton, at adcpti.org.

PEAL Center Executive Director Honored by Education Law Center of Pennsylvania

 

 

Liz Healey was honored October 25^th at the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania’s 35^th Anniversary Celebration. Congratulation to Liz and the PEAL Center for their great work for families of children with disabilities! More>>>

Spanish Glossary of Education Terms

The OSEP Spanish Glossary was developed by the Region 1 Parent Technical Assistance Center at SPAN in collaboration with other Parent Centers to support the participation in educational decision-making of Spanish-Speaking parents of children with disabilities. The glossary includes more than 200 terms that were translated from English to Spanish by a team of Spanish speaking staff from Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers across the country. The glossary is web-based but can also be downloaded and printed. More>>>

Announcements & News

TA&D Center of the Month: State Implementation and Scaling-Up of Evidence-Based Practices (SISEP) Center

The State Implementation and Scaling-Up of Evidence-Based Practices (SISEP) Center helps build the capacity of state education agencies to scale-up effective practices. The SISEP Center recently developed two video series, one on the stages of implementation and another on scaling-up effective educational practices. More>>>  

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month! This year’s theme, Profit by Investing in Workers with Disabilities, raises awareness about disability employment issues and celebrates the contributions of employees with disabilities in America. Learn more:

Presidential Proclamation

Resources from the Office of Disability Employment Policy

Resources

National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability Youth Briefs

“Bullying and Disability Harassment in the Workplace: What Youth Should Know” was developed by Sean Roy of PACER Center (http://www.pacer.org/bullying/) in partnership with the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (www.ncwd-youth.info). The InfoBrief is designed to help youth, including youth with disabilities, recognize signs of bullying in the workplace. It offers examples of bullying situations at work and strategies to help address the issue. Sean also recently wrote a blog on this topic: http://www.ncwd-youth.info/blog/?p=287.

"Engaging Youth in Work Experiences" describes the strategies and resources to engage youth in work experiences, including internships, summer jobs, youth-run businesses/entrepreneurship, service projects and volunteer work, and part-time jobs. 

Bookshare Parent Resources

Bookshare, an OSEP-funded project that provides accessible books to students with print disabilities, offers many helpful resources to parents to help them better understand their services. Bookshare’s 12-minute Back to School webinar provides parents with tips on obtaining accessible textbooks and other reading material. They also maintain a parent listserv where parents can ask questions of Bookshare and other families of children with print disabilities. More>>>

U.S. Department of Education Guidance on Physical Education for Students with Disabilities

The U.S. Department of Education recently released guidance on improving opportunities for children and youth with disabilities to participate in physical education and athletics in school. The guidance is in response to a 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that cited limited opportunities for students with disabilities in these areas, despite legal obligations for states and schools to provide equal access. More>>>

Supporting the Social Well-Being of Children and Youth with Disabilities 

The current issue of Impact, the newsletter of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration, features articles that examine what actions adults can take to create environments that support the social well-being of youth with disabilities. More>>> 

National Children's Mental Health Report Card

The Child Mind Institute developed a National Children’s Mental Health Report Card based on a survey of 1000 parents with children ages 2-24 years. Twenty-two percent of parents reported being concerned about their children’s mental health. More>>>

Technology

Online Event Registration Tools

Learn about various programs that nonprofit organizations can use to accept online registration and payment for their special events. More>>>

Thanking Donors Through Technology

This article from the Nonprofit Times lists 11 ways nonprofits can recognize their donors using a variety of technology techniques. More>>>