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  • Guidelines for Selecting Alternatives to Overreliance on Paraprofessionals
    Paraeducators, also known as instructional assistants, serve a variety of functions within public schools. Many times they are hired to work directly with students with disabilities and facilitate inclusion in general education classrooms. While on the surface this may sound ...

  • Using Teaching Tools to Support Participation in the Classroom
    Article by Stephanie Ekis, M.S., CCC-SLP Teaching Tools are pre-programmed pages available on DynaVox Series 5 devices.  They contain a variety of learning and communication activities that can support participation in the classroom.  You might find these pages to be ...

  • Special Needs Anti-Bullying Toolkit
    Bullying in schools is a really hot topic right now. This organization has developed anti-bullying toolkits for parents, teachers and students. Please check out all the resources! This toolkit is a set of resources for people to confront bullying of ...

  • The FRIEND Program
    This training offers an overview of the FRIEND Program, an inclusive social skills program for preschool-12th grade students which provides increased awareness of autism spectrum disorders, and how to create learning opportunities for individuals with ASDs to engage appropriately with ...

  • ASD & the DSM-V Positive and Negative Impact for Consumers
    Guest Presenters: Raymond G. Romanczyk, PhD, BCBA-D SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, SUNY Health Sciences Center, Syracuse Laura B. Turner, MS Doctoral Candidate, Department of Psychology State University of New York at Binghamton Significant changes will be ...