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Learn how your center can use Telehealth, apps, and related health & assessment technology to transform your programs to provide supervision, training, assessments, and diagnostic evaluations remotely and cost-effectively, while improving compliance and oversight.
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Join us for a professional development workshop focused on reviewing and demonstrating the top choice low-cost/no-cost online tools that are useful and user-friendly across both the web and mobile devices. Drawing on personal experiences, we'll show examples of tools that are used to create, store, and share documents on-the-go; manage time and schedules; organize personal thoughts and web resources; and promote and enhance collaboration.
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The new Administration on Community Living provides new opportunities for collaborations between the aging and disability networks. This workshop will address key strategies for engaging UCEDDS in activities that support state and local level cross-network activities.
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This workshop focuses on a self-instructional grant writing module for use by advanced trainees, post-doctoral fellows and early career professionals who wish to acquire grant writing skills and knowledge. The module and accompanying workshop are designed for professionals who have no or only limited grant writing experience and expertise.
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Through the use of active learning strategies and contextualized learning through case-based discussions, participants will learn the genetic concepts and principles that will help them provide better care to individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.
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Join us for an invigorating morning run, walk, or roll through the city. AUCD staff will be available as escorts for all abilities and paces, and course maps will be provided.
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For more than 25 years, Apple has provided new and innovative solutions for people with disabilities, allowing them to access ? and enjoy using ? the Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Apple TV. During this session, we will be exploring the many ways Apple has implemented accessibility features into its hardware and software offerings. We will also examine how the platform has allowed 3rd party developers to create some amazing apps with value to the special needs community. And we will hear real-world usage strategies for iPads in the special needs classroom.
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This symposium will train UCEDD and LEND Training Directors, faculty, and staff how to scale up efforts to promote self-determination using products developed by the National Gateway to Self-Determination.
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This presentation will focus on how this process unpacks and disentangles the features and elements of the intervention that matter most and on how to translate this information into useful materials for consumers.
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The symposium will be a four-part training. The first part will discuss transition as the integration of disciplines, agencies and perspectives. Short videotapes of self-advocates and families will describe expectations and obstacles. Panelists will offer different perspectives on transition and will highlight important considerations and effective strategies. Transition will be discussed from the perspective of health, education, employment, post-secondary education and community living. The second part will present strategies for facilitating interdisciplinary, interagency collaboration. The third part will be a guided exercise during which participants will apply core strategies to the issues raised by the self-advocate and family videos. The fourth part will highlight some of the resources available in the AUCD network.
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Individual differences in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation account for substantial variation in developmental outcomes. Recent initiatives that are focused on training mindfulness and kindness in children and adolescents will be described and early evidence on the impact of such training on behavior and brain function will be presented. The presentation will underscore the need for a serious national research effort that is focused on cultivating social and emotional skills in children to foster the development of healthy minds.
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Network with your colleagues while you learn about activities happening throughout the AUCD network at the Welcome and Poster Reception. Light hors d'ouvres will be provided and beverages will be available for purchase.
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Join us for an invigorating morning run, walk, or roll through the city. AUCD staff will be available as escorts for all abilities and paces, and course maps will be provided.
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This plenary will feature officials from Administration leaders who oversee Federal disability programs discussing recent initiatives, accomplishments, and future goals. Officials from the White House and the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Labor have been invited.
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Hearing loss can affect a child's ability to develop communication, language, and social skills. The earlier children with hearing loss receive services, the more likely they are to reach their full potential.
Since 2009, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) has provided funding and support to LEND programs to provide interdisciplinary training to enhance the clinical expertise and leadership skills of audiologists dedicated to caring for children with hearing loss. This session will explore opportunities for LEND programs to enhance collaborative efforts, share curriculum and address areas of mutual interest.
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The first segment of the closing plenary of the 2012 AUCD Conference will feature Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., discussing major challenges facing the developmental disability community over the next four years.
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A post-election analysis by political writer, reporter, and consultant Nathan Gonzales to discuss what the election outcome means for programs that are important to the AUCD network and the disability community as a whole.
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For the first time ever, AUCD is scheduling time for Hill Visits in conjunction with the annual Conference! AUCD network members and supporters are encouraged to schedule appointments with their congressional delegation.
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