Videos

99. Preschool Early Literacy Indicators (PELI): Targeted Literacy Instruction and Transition The PELI is set of standardized subtests within a storybook format for children 3 to 5 years. The assessment model measures children’s current early literacy skills, language skills, and growth in skill sets across the school year. Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers has embedded these assessments into our preschool/Pre-K classrooms to better help and understand children’s comprehension and phonological awareness. This presentation will provide an understanding to educators as to how our LVCC teachers utilize this tool intentionally to support individualized learning for children and how its usage provides transitional supports to district and community agencies to better support children’s future learning and growth.99. Preschool Early Literacy Indicators (PELI): Targeted Literacy Instruction and Transition The PELI is set of standardized subtests within a storybook format for children 3 to 5 years. The assessment model measures children’s current early literacy skills, language skills, and growth in skill sets across the school year. Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers has embedded these assessments into our preschool/Pre-K classrooms to better help and understand children’s comprehension and phonological awareness. This presentation will provide an understanding to educators as to how our LVCC teachers utilize this tool intentionally to support individualized learning for children and how its usage provides transitional supports to district and community agencies to better support children’s future learning and growth.

99B. We’re All In This Together: Impactful Ways to Attract, Prepare, and Retain Special Educators During the session, the presenters will share special education personnel retention and impact data from the Bureau of Special Education's Attract, Prepare, and Retain (APR) efforts. The current APR targeted projects that have been specifically designed for special education personnel to equip them to meet the varied learning needs of today's students with disabilities will be featured. Attendees will be encouraged to ask questions and discuss ways to engage in the current APR preparation and retainment efforts of mentoring, networking, and learning institutes. Together we can affect the future generations of special education personnel and elevate the profession.

An Introduction to Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) provides an overview of Pennsylvania’s program and school-wide PBIS project. The overview video describes the Pennsylvania Positive Behavior Support Network (PAPBS) as an organizational entity in addition to featuring the core elements associated with the effective implementation of PBIS: data, systems, practices and student outcomes. The video highlights footage from schools within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that are implementing PBIS with fidelity through assistance provided by the PAPBS Network.

Intensive behavior analytic intervention for young children diagnosed with autism can produce large gains in social, cognitive, and language development. One critical area to address is repetitive behavior such as stereotypy. Applied research on evaluating and treating stereotypic behavior will be reviewed, focusing on effective interventions for building core adaptive living and social skills, in addition to procedures for treating stereotypic behavior directly. Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD) research for treating stereotypy has shown that many variations of this procedure can be effective even with individuals with limited vocal, verbal skills. Variations of the procedure and when they are most appropriate will be discussed, along with videos depicting the procedure. This presentation will also describe repetitive behavior associated with anxiety and how to treat it.

Would you like to learn about a few strategies and resources to support children and adolescents who experience anxiety? If so, check out this byte- in less than 20 minutes.

Would you like to learn about a strategy that can be implemented class-wide to address some of the most common problems students experience in the classroom? If so, check out this byte that highlights Classwide Antecedent Modifications in less than 20 minutes.

Join Ron Logan as he talks with a group of parents who also happen to be PaTTAN consultants and hear how they have managed the past few months with their families and work. Hear some of the challenges they have worked through, the difficult conversations they’ve had the and joys that that they’ve experienced. Listen to this roundtable discussion for tips, hints and reminders that we are all in this together.

Join Ron Logan as he talks with a group of parents who also happen to be PaTTAN consultants and hear how they have managed the past few months with their families and work. Hear some of the challenges they have worked through, the difficult conversations they’ve had the and joys that that they’ve experienced. Listen to this roundtable discussion for tips, hints and reminders that we are all in this together.

Discover the impact of RENEW as a tier 3 intervention for students at risk of dropping out. Gain an understanding of the four phases of RENEW, the training required, and hear a high school team share their experience of installing and implementing RENEW. Center for RENEW Implementation | https://iod.unh.edu/projects/resilience-empowerment-and-natural-supports-education-and-work-renew PaTTAN | https://www.pattan.net/Multi-Tiered-System-of-Support/Behavior/Featured-Topics/RENEW