AUCD: Concurrent Sessions: Enhancing Inclusion: Creating Plain Language version of the MCH Leadership Competencies to increase inclusion of LEND trainees with developmental disabilities

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Enhancing Inclusion: Creating Plain Language version of the MCH Leadership Competencies to increase inclusion of LEND trainees with developmental disabilities [download] Plain Language Checklist [download]

Presenter

Karen Topper, BS, Administrative Director
Vermont Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, LEND

Other Presenter(s)

Tia Nelis, TASH, Silver Springs, MD, United States;
Mary Alice Favro, MA, CCC-SLP, Burlington, VT, United States, VT - Vermont Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, LEND;

Description

Participants will have an opportunity to try out successful strategies that VT LEND used to make the MCH Leadership competencies cognitively accessible. Presenters will provide historical background on goal of full inclusion and rationale for having plain language version. We will share key concepts to adapt text written on a college reading level to a 6th grade reading level. Presenters will review cooperative strategies for co-developing accessible information with self-advocates

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