Videos

In recent years, practitioners in our field have noted a marked decrease in the number of supervisors and administrators with a background in deaf education. This Hour with the Expert session will highlight the experiences of four highly-skilled deaf education practitioners who have made the successful transition into supervision and administration, with an emphasis on considerations for those thinking of taking the leap, current challenges and successes, and the future direction of the field.

PaTTAN Consultant shares the commonalities and interconnection between Path to Graduation and School Improvement.

This webinar will provide an overview of SSI and the available work incentives. It will provide strategies and tools that assist in helping job seekers understand the information. It will focus on the importance of on framing the conversation as financial stability rather than just benefits planning. Recommendations on when a job seeker should be referred to a Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Service will be discussed.

This session will focus on how to maximize your read aloud - Dialogic Reading.

Raising a child with "extra-special" needs can be one of the most challenging yet rewarding experiences of our lives. Using real-life examples (the good, bad and the not so pretty), Djenne will take the audience on her own cyclical journey from parent to professional and back again. She will talk about the “tools” she has gathered along the way that have made this journey a very productive and successful one.

Dr. Lakesha Johnson will kick off our book study and provide insight from her perspective as a speech and language pathologist and a parent to the importance of using children’s literature where children can see themselves in the books they read. LINK TO RESOURCES: https://pattan.padlet.org/shartman25/fugq437lrvki8dhj1666714492

This session will provide participants with an opportunity to increase their knowledge and skills in regard to communication and communication competence. Providing students with complex support needs a means to communicate, and recognizing communicative intent, provides students a way to access academic content and demonstrates what students have learned. Join us as we identify evidence-based strategies to increase communication competence.

The purpose of this webinar is to provide specific information regarding the graduation requirements and the various pathways to graduation in the state of Pennsylvania with an emphasis on IEP team considerations for students with Deaf-Blindness.

Students with brain injury have learning needs that are often not reflected on their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). This interactive presentation will offer tools and strategies to help turn the unique educational needs of students with brain injury into meaningful IEPs that can lead to effective programming and improve student outcomes.