Upcoming Training Opportunities in Linton from ASK

A Life with Stress, Balance and a Plan
February 27, 2017 – 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Parents of children with special needs live with added emotional, medical, social and financial challenges. These extenuating circumstances can often lead to feelings of loneliness, depression, marital and family problems and health issues. This training will focus on identifying types of stressors, identify coping mechanisms and providing ways to incorporate them into everyday life, and the importance of good communication.
Register for this training at:
http://www.aboutspecialkids.org/training/training-calendar/a-life-with-stress,-balance-and-a-plan-linton/

Roadmap to Special Education:  Laws and Process
March 9, 2017 – 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

This training, combining the Article 7 and IEP training, is an all day training that offers basic information about special education laws and regulations for Indiana children ages 3-21. In addition, this training provides information on how to prepare for a case conference and write an IEP. This training is a great opportunity for family members and professionals who advocate for children with a disability or serious chronic illness.

Register at:

http://www.aboutspecialkids.org/training/training-calendar/roadmap-to-special-education-laws-and-process-(3)/

Bionic Devices

Bionics: Cool Science by Judith Jango-Cohen is a book about artificial devices that help improve daily living. This book shows how bionic devices serve many different purposes for animals and people. For example, some bionic devices replace parts of the body that are missing due to injury or birth defects. This book includes chapters on Replacing Parts, Fixing Malfunctions, Assisting the Senses and Facing the Future. This book is recommended for students in grade 4th -6th.

Interested in this book and live in Indiana? Contact us.

If not, check to see if your local library has it in WorldCat.

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities

Transition Planning for Students with Disabilities: What Educators and Service Providers Can Do by Jeffrey Bakken and Festus Obiakor provides a wide range of topics that cover each area of transition impacting the lives of students with disabilities. This book takes an in-depth look at using assistive technology to help plan a student's future and stresses the importance of family involvement. This resource guide assists educators and service providers in developing an effective plan to help students with disabilities meet their goals to achieve success during school and beyond.

Interested in this book and live in Indiana? Contact us.

If not, check to see if your local library has it by using WorldCat.

Quality of Life

Quality of Life and Disability: An Approach for Community Practitioners by Ivan Brown and Roy Brown is a practical book that applies ideas about quality of life to the field of disability to assist front-line professionals, managers and policy-makers in effective service provision. The book also discusses the quality of life in the daily lives of people who have disabilities and shows how an understanding of the issue can inform practice in assessment, intervention, management and policy.

Indiana resident? Interested in this item? Contact us!

Not an Indiana resident? Find this book at your local library!