Library Hours Next Week

The CeDIR library will have different hours for next week only.

Monday          Closed
Tuesday          Closed
Wednesday    Closed
Thursday        8:00 a.m. to noon
Friday 8:00 a.m. to noon

If you would like to check out a title, please send us an email or leave a voicemail message. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can. Library materials can be returned to us by mail, or they can be returned to any Indiana University campus library and they will get them back to us.

Poetry Matters: Aging with Creativity

Poetry Matters, a two-day workshop series will be offered October 25th and 26th in Bloomington, Indiana. The event will be presented by the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community's Center on Aging and Community and facilitated by Gary Glazner, the founder and Executive Director of the Alzheimer's Poetry Project.

The two-day event will include three separate workshops that will focus on including poetry in the lives of older people who may be isolated from others in one form or another. To learn more about the program and the specific workshops, please visit:

https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/poetry-matters

Teaching a child with special needs at home and at school: Strategies and tools that really work!

Teaching a Child with Special Needs at Home and at School: Strategies and Tools That Really Work! is a 296-page guide for parents and teachers of children specifically with learning disabilities, high-functioning autism, or Asperger's syndrome. Written by a special educator with over 30 years of experience teaching those with special needs, this book offers instructional strategies and advice about what works for teachers and parents who may homeschool their children.

This book is divided into five sections plus an appendix. In the first section, the author discusses the basic principles of effective instruction and offers a framework of the four key skills for learning. Section two delves into specific areas of deficits that children with special needs often display, while section three offers teaching strategies organized by academic topics. Section four covers evaluation and assessment and section five offers advice on when to seek professional help or evaluation for your student. The appendix at the end of the book contains a list of online and print resources to help further the parent or teacher's own education on the subject of children with special needs.

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

YouCue Feelings: Using online videos for social learning

YouCue Feelings: Using online videos for social learning is a 90-page guide written by a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years experience. The book offers to help parents and professionals use online videos in teaching social skills to elementary and middle school children with disabilities such as autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, or other social learning delays.

The book is broken out into five chapters and five appendices. The first chapter offers an introduction to using YouTube videos as a means to teach social skills and the importance of social learning. Chapter two discusses the YouCue Feelings (YCF) program itself. The third chapter offers further information about the preselected videos including the URL as well as a brief summary of what is involved in each one. Chapter four has activities that accompany the videos in the previous chapter. Level 1 activities focus on the characters in the video and level 2 activities are meant to help begin discussions of the students' emotional experiences. Chapter five offers tips for further learning including some on selecting or developing your own videos.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Roadmap to Special Education: Laws and Process

About Special Kids (ASK) is offering a one-day training in Linton that offers basic information about special education laws and regulations, preparing for case conferences, and writing IEPs. Suitable for both parents and professionals, the training will be face-to-face and will be held at the Greene-Sullivan Special Education Co-Op.

For more information and to register, please visit:
http://www.aboutspecialkids.org/training/training-calendar/roadmap-to-special-education-laws-and-process-lint/

2016 Indiana Conference on Disability

This December 5th and 6th, the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities in partnership with the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council will host the 2016 Indiana Conference on Disability at the Westin Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. This year's theme is “Creating a Culture of Change.”

For more information about the conference and to register, please visit:
http://www.indianadisabilityawareness.org/conference/

Mobile App Monday - Sound Touch

Looking for a robust early learning app that offers identification, vocabulary, and language skills? Sound Touch contains 408 sounds, images, written and spoken words for animals, vehicles, birds, musical instruments and household items. And it's available in 35 different languages!

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id348094440

Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law

Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law has 176 pages of  jargon-free information on the basic principles and laws that govern education. Written by a professor who teaches courses on special education law, emotional and behavior disorders, and diverse learners, this book offers teachers a quick guide to turn to when heavy legal tomes are too much.

The book begins by discussing important laws such as Section 504 and IDEA 2004, defining disability, and the legal responsibilities of IEP team members. It goes on to discuss the parent-educator partnership and creating a collaborative academic team. Basic principles of an IEP covered along with the important aspect of teachers supervising and protecting students from harm while in their care. Documentation and the rules of record keeping are highlighted in addition to using a team approach when making decisions. Critical court cases are used to provide insight into how to interpret the law and each chapter includes two court cases to show the difference between exemplary practices as opposed to common mistakes that are sometimes made.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Resources for Indiana Transition Teachers

Hoosier middle and high school teachers now have access to hundreds of transition assessments, tutorials, checklists, presentations, and Transition IEP guides with the introduction of the updated and redesigned Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center (INSTRC) website.

INSTRC, a project of the Indiana Institute’s Center on Community Living and Careers, is funded by the Indiana Department of Education to assist transition educators and administrators as they comply with federal transition requirements and provide their students and their families with the information and experiences they need to move from high school to their postsecondary lives. There you will discover:

• Resource Collections: Including health, sample IEPs, information for new teachers and families, and more.
• Transition Assessment Matrix: Assessments are a key component of transition planning. The new Matrix allows teachers to quickly find age-appropriate transition assessments that fit their student.
• Access to dozens of state and national education, employment, and service organizations.

To access this site, please visit:
https://instrc.indiana.edu/

Dementia activist: Fighting for our rights

Dementia activist: Fighting for our rights is a 152-page memoir from a translator and activist who was diagnosed at an early age with Lewy Body Dementia. At the time of publication, Rohra had been living with a dementia diagnosis for over three years and in this book offers a unique glimpse into the challenges she encounters on a daily basis along with finding new meaning in her life post-diagnosis.

Rohra beings her memoir discussing her active life as a single mom raising a son on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and her work as a freelance medical and scientific translator. When she began losing the ability to come up with the proper word, she tried to find the humor in the situation but gradually began to get worried. Amazed at her diagnosis, Rohra began to withdraw at first but found the courage to continue being an activist for the dementia community with humor and grace.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

CeDIR Closed on Monday

The library will be closed all day on Monday, October 10th. We will re-open at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 11th.

Have a lovely weekend!

CeDIR Citings

CeDIR Citings is the biannual newsletter of the the Center for Disability Information and Referral. Each March and October the staff at CeDIR focus on an area of interest. The latest issue focuses on Community Living for people with disabilities.

To see the latest edition and previous ones as well, please visit:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/cedir-citings

National Disability Employment Awareness Month

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. It's a national campaign that raises awareness about disability employment issues. The image above is a poster created by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, US Department of Labor. To learn more about it and to order or download the poster, please visit:
https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/ndeam/

Did you know that CeDIR has a topic guide that covers the issue of employment for people with disabilities? There you will find books, videos and online resources to help you learn more about getting jobs, supporting employees, the state of employment for people with disabilities and policies influencing employment options for people with disabilities. Visit the guide at:
http://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/cedir_employment

Mobile App Monday - Time Timer

Time TIMER® for iPhone is the original timer designed to “show” the passage of time through the use of its signature red disk that disappears as time elapses. Unlike traditional timers that fail to make the abstract concept of time concrete, its innovative and visual depiction of “time remaining” is ideal for anyone (particularly a visual learner) who wants to measure and manage time more effectively at work, school and home.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id332520417