Videos

Dr. Julie Esparza Brown joins PaTTANPod to explore how educators can improve literacy and language outcomes for English learners (ELs) with disabilities by embedding culturally and linguistically appropriate instruction into existing multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS). Dr. Brown introduces the PLUSS Model, a framework designed to infuse evidence-based second language acquisition practices within each MTSS tier and provide tailored support for dually identified students, and a tool that educators can use reflect on their implementation of PLUSS strategies.

Representatives from the Butler Area School District joined PaTTANpod to showcase their efforts in building oral language and vocabulary amongst adolescent students.

This webinar’s focus will be on the analysis and applications of the configuration(s) needed of the actual access equipment, its relationship to the user and other equipment, and control of the equipment to be accessed. Discussion will demonstrate how to evaluate features of the equipment to be accessed, analyze the access of that equipment, and determine how the software is organized and configured, as well as how it may change for each student.

Dr. Tyrone Howard shares what it looks like, feels like, and sounds like in an equitable school setting

Policies drive practices... Dr. Heather Bennett from PBSA and Dr. Stacy Winslow from the Derry Township School District discuss the what, why, and how of Educational Equity Policies.

An outline of error correction procedures to be used when teaching tacts of parts and features are presented. Typical error patterns are discussed and specific error correction strategies related to error patterns are presented.

School psychologists frequently navigate unique circumstances associated with providing school psychological services. In this session, school psychologists will have the opportunity to explore contemporary ethical issues that may be encountered in practice. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Principles for Professional Ethics (2020) will serve as a foundation to guide decision making in navigating potential ethical dilemmas.

When supporting young children and students in their learning with the use of assistive technology, it is critical that switch use is understood, available, and readily implemented. Switch use and its applications need to be encouraged by all members of the student’s support team, including teachers, paraprofessionals, occupational therapists, speech therapists, physical therapists, and all other learning support staff. This workshop will focus on the switches themselves, what is currently available, how they work, how they are used, and how decisions of implementation need to occur, with shared successful strategies of assessment and use. This workshop is truly for those adults who are beginning their journey in AT support, and for all other adults who work with students who need or will need to use switches and assistive technology, especially for augmentative communication, computer access, task participation, and powered mobility. This workshop will contain many examples of real students and their journeys with their use of AT and switch use.