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NOW AVAILABLE! COVID-19: Anti-discrimination Training for Triage Teams During Resource Shortages Organization: Mailman Center for Child Development/UM
People with disabilities experience high rates of health disparities. During this pandemic, hospital and health care personnel must recognize their obligation to treat everyone fairly, especially people with disabilities. Dr. Jeffrey Brosco worked with community disability partners and the Florida Bioethics Network to write guidelines for standards of care during shortages of critical equipment, such as ventilators. Read More...
ICI Tools for Inclusion:Employment and Employment Supports: A Guide to Ensuring Informed Choice for Individuals with Disabilities
As individuals with disabilities consider their employment options, questions often arise: Does the person want to work in competitive integrated employment? What kind of a job do they want? What are their career interests? And who is really making the decision: Is it the individual, or others on their behalf? As people with disabilities consider their options and future direction in terms of employment, it is important that they do so within a process that puts them in the driver's seat in terms of decision-making.
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Partnership Helps Students "Self-Determine" Ways to Improve Learning
For three years, a collaboration between Free State High School and researchers at the KU Center on Developmental Disabilities has grown to include more than 20 teachers at the school and hundreds of students with and without disabilities. It is led by KUCDD director, Karrie Shogren. "We intuitively know that identifying goals and things we want to work towards are critical for us to move forward in our lives," Shogren said. "We've spent a lot of time in disability supports and in schools in general talking to students about goals" even getting them to start being able to identify those for themselves. But what they've never really had is the strategy to move forward. Read More...
Supporting Teens and Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Setting and Pursuing Self-Determined Goals
 The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC)(TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) has collaborated with local partners to create a free toolkit and online course, now available for dissemination. "Supporting Teens and Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum: Setting and Pursuing Self-Determined Goals" is designed to help parents and caregivers, teachers, siblings, service providers, and others who support teens and young adults on the autism spectrum as they set and pursue self-determined goals. Teens and adults on the autism spectrum may also find this toolkit helpful. This toolkit may also be beneficial to people who support individuals with a range of disabilities. Read More...
Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Applied Behavior Analysis: Treatment of Children with Autism During a Pandemic
MI-DDI is excited to announce a document written by the Michigan ABA Taskforce on ABA Treatment During the Pandemic: Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies for Applied Behavior Analysis: Treatment of Children with Autism During a Pandemic. The present collection of tools is designed specifically for Michigan's ABA providers to assess and mitigate risk to clients, families, and staff while still delivering essential services to the extent that it is safe to do so. Read More...
UC Davis MIND Institute ECHO Autism: Special Edition
Project ECHO aims to disseminate evidence-based practices, build provider capacity and develop a community of practice for complex medical conditions such as autism. Using virtual learning networks of providers with access to interdisciplinary autism expertise, this model has been empirically tested and allows professionals and caregivers to increase their confidence in providing autism services. Read More...
The ECHO Effect
The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently launched two new initiatives - ECHO AAC and ECHO Autism WI. Both programs are targeted to help improve and expand teletraining services using the Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) platform. Project ECHO (the mantra for which is "All teach, all learn") uses video-conferencing technology to provide education and case consultation on best practice clinical services, training, and resources for individuals with specific healthcare needs that are difficult to meet locally. Read More...
New Research Brief: COVID-19 and disability in rural areas
As many organizations, families, and individuals discovered: COVID-19 changes plans fast. With just two months until the Center for Leadership in Disability's (CLD) 6th annual Autism Conference and Expo of Georgia (ACE), hosting the popular research and resource event in person was no longer possible. But the staff at CLD were faced with two choices: Cancel the conference, or forge ahead with one of the many online platforms adapting to a new normal.The CLD decided that the resources and opportunities this event offered were too valuable to set aside for another year. Read More...
Attain BA/BS and MS in Rehabilitation Counseling in 5 Years
SGISD's newest 4+1 master's program allows UMass Boston students to attain their BA/BS and their MS degree in Rehabilitation Counseling on an accelerated time frame. With careful planning and summer courses, students can graduate with both degrees in just 5 years. Rehabilitation counseling is an in-demand profession even during an economic downturn. Rehabilitation counselors support people with disabilities to lead fulfilling lives, including finding meaningful jobs in their communities. Counselors work in a wide variety of settings including the Veterans Administration, community-based programs, state vocational rehabilitation agencies, and more. Read More...
University of Kentucky HDI Leads Effort to Increase Higher Ed Access for Students With Intellectual, Developmental Disabilities
During the 2020 legislative session, the Kentucky General Assembly included in UK's state budget allocation $500,000 for the Supported Higher Education Project (SHEP). These funds enable the establishment of the Statewide Technical Assistance Center at UK's Human Development Institute (HDI). The Statewide Technical Assistance Center will provide support to institutions of higher education in Kentucky to establish or enhance postsecondary programs that advance the academic success and inclusion of students with I/DD. The funds will support the participation of up to 20 students in partner institutions over the next year. Read More...
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (TN IDDRC, UCEDD, LEND) publishes Discovery e-newsletter dedicated to COVID-19 response
"This special issue of Discovery outlines some of the ways we have adapted and innovated during the COVID-19 pandemic," said VKC director Jeff Neul, M.D., Ph.D. "Research in intellectual and developmental disabilities has not stopped. Virtual endeavors have allowed research to continue and new lines of research to emerge. Though in-person training and activities have been cancelled, virtual learning and services have continued, and connections with new worldwide audiences have been made. Reading through this issue, it is easy to see how the VKC thrives despite challenges associated with COVID-19." Read More...
Save-the-Date Virtual Room to Grow: Journey to Cultural and Linguistic Competency Conference
"This special issue of Discovery outlines some of the ways we have adapted and innovated during the COVID-19 pandemic," said VKC director Jeff Neul, M.D., Ph.D. "Research in intellectual and developmental disabilities has not stopped. Virtual endeavors have allowed research to continue and new lines of research to emerge. Though in-person training and activities have been cancelled, virtual learning and services have continued, and connections with new worldwide audiences have been made. Reading through this issue, it is easy to see how the VKC thrives despite challenges associated with COVID-19." Read More...
TCDS Welcomes Dr. Swanson to TTAP Team
"The Texas Center for Disability Studies is excited to welcome Dr. Anita Swanson as the new Project Coordinator for the Texas Technology Access Program (TTAP). Dr. Swanson will work with current TTAP staff to increase connections and awareness locally and across the state. " Read More...
ADA 30th: Community Voices Series
"The Texas Center for Disability Studies is excited to share our ADA 30: Community Voices Series to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Part 1 of this series highlights what the ADA means to local self advocates, activists, and community leaders. Stay tuned for part two!" Read More...
2020 Summer Enrichment Academy Goes Virtual
"Summer typically provides opportunities for youth and young adults to go on vacations, soak up the sun, spend time with family and friends, and have a break from school. In Mississippi, 19 youth and young adults with disabilities chose to make their summer a work learning experience instead. These students attended the ToTAL (Transition of Teens to Adult Life) 2020 Summer Enrichment Academy. The ToTAL Program is provided through the Institute for Disability (IDS), Mississippi's UCEDD, and receives funding from the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services. The 2020 academy was the third year for this annual event and the first-time the event was virtual." Read More...
Nisonger Center Welcomes Dr. Stephen Beestra
The Ohio State University Nisonger Center UCEDD/LEND welcomes Stephen Beetstra, DDS, MHSA, as Program Director of the Nisonger Center Dental Services. Dr. Beetstra will be an Assistant Professor of the Clinical Dentistry in the Division of Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry, College of Dentistry. Dr. Beetstra has three main areas of expertise; dental care for individuals with complex medical issues and/or developmental disabilities, development of dental education and clinical programs using financial and needs based modeling and development of public policy initiatives based upon population based metrics. Read More...
UK Human Development Institute Commemorates 30th Anniversary of the ADA
Staff from the UK Human Development Institute reflect on the 30th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) signed in to law by President George H. W. Bush on July 26,1990. The ADA provides protections of the rights and opportunities for people with disabilities in our nation. Although the ADA has brought progress, our work has just begun. Read More...
Three New Briefs from ThinkWork
Three new briefs from ThinkWork this month covering topics on; Finding Tasks and Jobs; DataNote Examines Employemnt Rates Among SSI Recipient and Comprehensive Model of Employment Support. Read More...
Va-LEND Faculty Shares Impact of ADA
This July marked the 30th year of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), put into place to protect people with disabilities from discrimination. Jack Brandt, the Disability Advocacy (DA) track coordinator for the Virginia LEND (Va-LEND) program, mentors trainees in understanding the legislative process and how policies such as ADA impact people with disabilities and their families. He shares, "I have been impacted by the physical accessibility that the ADA provides for. I also utilize a reasonable accommodation to do my work. I have been fortunate to dedicate my career to the goals of the ADA and the DD Act."
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