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The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies to set aside at least 15% of their federal funds to provide "pre-employment transition services" to "students with disabilities who are eligible or potentially eligible for VR services." During this webinar sponsored by the Pennsylvania Community of Practice on Secondary Transition and presented by representatives from OVR and PaTTAN provided information regarding how to assist transition age students in accessing and engaging in pre-employment transition services during the 2017-18 school year.

The Literacy Tookit is a training series consisting of a progressive sequence of interactive webinars focused on expanding the instructional interventions used to promote the literacy achievement of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Presentations in the training series will focus on how to use assessment information primarily from the Qualitative Reading Inventory-5 (QRI-5), as well as other evidenced based assessments (norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and progress monitoring) to plan and implement instructional interventions. Instructional delivery “techniques” and implementation “tips and tricks” will be discussed, and a set of intervention resources, materials, weblinks, and e-learning applications will be assembled for each topic to assist with implementation.

The East Juniata Elementary School team who participated in the session, Effective Implementation of Academic Vocabulary Instruction and Student Discourse, and began implementation of Word Generation from fall to winter, will prepare and share a brief presentation describing and explaining their Word Generation implementation experience and outcomes. Link to handouts: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfDWEcQ8YdgTuckVOJVqjSlM1rmxH4se/view?usp=share_link

This session will focus on the family responses after ABI and the means for working with families to support them in difficult times. Ability to respond to varying coping styles, family systems, resilience, and challenges will be outlined. Active participation of the audience is encouraged.

This session will focus on the family responses after ABI and the means for working with families to support them in difficult times. Ability to respond to varying coping styles, family systems, resilience, and challenges will be outlined. Active participation of the audience is encouraged.

This session will focus on the family responses after ABI and the means for working with families to support them in difficult times. Ability to respond to varying coping styles, family systems, resilience, and challenges will be outlined. Active participation of the audience is encouraged.

Effective partnerships that support students and the overall school improvement process, that’s what we are all seeking. In this two-part series, we focus our attention on the many networks available for families and caregivers and how each of these organizations and agencies help us to build stronger family-school partnerships.

Part II of this series, additional agencies are highlighted for networking students and families to the resources available to them.

This session will address how to write comprehensive Evaluation Reports for students referred for specific learning disabilities when using response to intervention methodologies. Participants will review how to operationalize and document contemporary approaches to responsiveness to intervention and level of performance specific to a student’s referred area of academic performance. Consideration and documentation of federally-required classroom observations and rule-out criteria (e.g., lack of instruction; other conditions; environmental / economic disadvantage; limited English proficiency) will also be reviewed. Case studies will be used to illustrated how to document all required elements of a comprehensive evaluation for specific learning disabilities.

From the very start, writing is an essential, unquestioned component of literacy development for students without disabilities. For students with significant disabilities who are unable hold a pencil, writing may be laborious, frustrating, and may seem just impossible. However, with the right tools, activities and supports, it is completely possible. With an emphasis on early writing, from scribble to writing beginning words for students of all ages, a range of writing tools and teaching strategies will be demonstrated, such as "alternative pencils," AAC devices, and iPads.