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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Choose One Session
Preconference Session - 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
Pre01 Toolkit For Active Learning and Successful Communication
for Young Children who have Multiple Disabilities Including
Vision and Hearing Loss
Pre02 Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship
Based (DIR) Model: Understanding the Model and the Impact
of the Child’s Sensory Profile and Motor Planning Abilities on
Relating and Communicating
Pre03 Early Literacy and Communication Activities for Young
Children with Special Needs
Pre04 Understanding Complex Childhood Trauma
Pre05 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education Using Parent-Child Groups
and Home Visits to Promote Social Emotional Competence
Pre06 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education Promoting Positive Behavior in
Young Children
Pre07 Practical Strategies for Young Children with Special
Needs in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings
Pre08 Intercultural Exchange: Dancing with Difference
Pre09 Considering the Impact of Grief and Loss on Children and
Families
Pre10 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education: Providing Developmentally-
Appropriate Intervention to Infants and Toddlers with Autism
Pre11 Training on the Screen Tool for Autism in Toddlers and
Young Children (STAT™)
Pre12 Growing Up Wild
Pre01 Toolkit For Active Learning and Successful Communication
for Young Children who have Multiple Disabilities Including
Vision and Hearing Loss, presented by Kathee Scoggin, M.Ed
Are you working or living with a young child with multiple
disabilities and medical conditions—who also has a combined
vision and hearing loss? Picture that child initiating communication
and actively learning… not having the people around her trying
to read her mind or guessing all the time. Exciting? You bet!
Come learn strategies that families and service providers can use
and how to adapt the home and center or school environment to
facilitate communication and active learning. Lecture, videos,
experiential activities, and group brainstorming all will be part
of this presentation. This session will address children ages birth
through age 8. Leave with a toolkit of your own!
About the Presenter: Kathee Scoggin, M.Ed., is Co-Director of Washington
State Services for Children with Deaf-Blindness (part of Washington
Sensory Disabilities Services). She is a nationally-recognized trainer
on topics relating to children and youths with significant disabilities
including hearing loss and visual impairment.
Sponsor: Washington Sensory Disabilities Services
Pre02 Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship
Based (DIR) Model: Understanding the Model and the Impact
of the Child’s Sensory Profile and Motor Planning Abilities on
Relating and Communicating, presented by Rosemary White,
OTR
If you are new to this presentation, it is a great introduction. If you
attended in the past, come again for new videos and a deeper analysis
of assessment and treatment. DIR /Floortime is the developmentally
appropriate, relationship based approach to treatment. This
workshop will focus on using the DIR Model with young children
with disorders in relating and communicating. Rosemary will
share, from her professional perspective, assessment and treatment
of the child, addressing each child’s functional emotional levels
of development (regulation and attention, mutual engagement,
purposeful interaction with gesture and problem solving, elaboration
of ideas and building bridges between ideas).
This workshop will examine the sensory modulation continuum
of sensory registration and response to stimuli and how it
influences behavior, attention, impulse control, postural control,
motor control and functional skills. The workshop will also
examine the child’s motor planning, the core capacity necessary
for sequencing interactions with people and objects, as well as
building bridges between ideas and abstract thought. This workshop
will cover the comprehensive assessment, including the FEAS
(Functional Emotional Assessment Scale), to provide a baseline for
understanding the child’s sensory profile, to guide treatment and to
provide parent coaching. Through the use of videotape, the workshop
will cover DIR in practice, moving through the developmental
levels with longitudinal case presentations of DIR in a variety of
environments.
There is a $5.00 materials fee.
About the Presenter: Rosemary White has been an Occupational
Therapist since 1972 and brings a wealth of clinical experience to
every workshop she teaches throughout the United States, Canada
and Australia. Rosemary is a true clinician’s clinician! Rosemary
received her Neurodevelopmental Therapy training in London
with the Bobaths, her Sensory Integrative Therapy training in Los
Angeles with Dr. Jean Ayres and her training in DIR (Floortime) with
Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, Ph.D., and the Faculty of
Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental (ICDL). She currently
owns and operates Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy
Services in Seattle, Washington. Rosemary has her Certificate in
DIR and has been Senior Faculty on the ICDL chaired by Stanley
Greenspan, MD and Serena Wieder, Ph.D, since 2002 and is also
Clinical Faculty at the University of Washington in the School of
Nursing Infant Mental Health Certificate Program. Rosemary is
also Faculty in the ICDL Graduate School in the Ph.D. in Infant
and Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Disorders.
This is an online PhD program providing education to professionals
throughout the world.
Pre03 Early Literacy and Communication Activities for Young
Children with Special Needs, presented by Joy Knight, Private
Consultant
Come take a journey with us through the research based methods
and approaches to enhance early language and literacy experiences.
When you leave, you will have the research, methods, and approaches
needed to implement. The instructor of this session will link the
relationship between learning activities and the latest research.
Plus, how do we respond to developing curriculum activities on a
budget in preschool settings? Participants will “make and take” ten
different early literacy and communication projects that they can
use immediately in their program. Projects are created using found,
recycled, and common materials. This session will address children
age 3 through age 7.
There is a $10.00 materials fee.
About the Presenter: Joy Knight is a seasoned local, regional,
and national presenter. Joy has been presenting in her unique and
entertaining style at the IECC for the last six years. Her sessions
are always highly engaging and very popular with participants. Joy
has been working in the field for more than 30 years.
Pre04 Understanding Complex Childhood Trauma. Presented
by Dr. Karen Peterson and Jackie McReynolds.
In recent years, the paradigm of complex trauma has received
significant attention. As practitioners and clinical researchers have
become increasingly aware of the existence and impact of adverse
childhood experiences, new research and options for diagnosis and
treatment have greatly impacted social and public health service
delivery. This pre-conference session will review the new research
on the impact of multiple adverse experiences that occur during
childhood and the subsequent implications for adult outcomes.
To strengthen participants understanding of adverse childhood
experiences, the following questions will be addressed in the session:
What is complex trauma? What are the adverse effects? What is
the impact on developmental vulnerabilities for children? How
do the cumulative effects influence adult outcomes? Participants
will learn intervention and prevention options that currently exist
to assist children and adults with an emphasis on services in the
Pacific Northwest, and receive a resource list for research articles
and options for professional practice.
About the Presenter: Dr. Karen Peterson is a professor of early
childhood education in the Department of Human Development at
Washington State University in Vancouver, Washington. She is the
Director of the campus children’s program and kindergarten. Her
teaching efforts are in early childhood education and her research
and outreach focus is on development of community collaborative
structures in early childhood.
About the Presenter: Jackie McReynolds is a senior instructor
in the Department of Human Development at Washington State
University in Vancouver, Washington. She teaches undergraduate
students in the areas of child abuse and neglect, human services,
family poverty, family communications, and professional skill
development. Her research and community outreach focus is on
the systemic impact of methamphetamine use in child, family, and
community.
Sponsor: Washington State University, Vancouver Campus
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Pre05 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education Using Parent-Child Groups
and Home Visits to Promote Social Emotional Competence,
presented by Tweety Yates, Ph.D.
Promoting social emotional competence can help infants and
toddlers get off to a strong start in life! This workshop will discuss
a model that focuses on enhancing the social emotional competence
of infants and toddlers by expanding and strengthening parent-child
interactions and relationships. Resources, strategies and videos
will be shared that apply to parent-child groups and home visiting.
Several parent-child group and home visit plans for promoting social
emotional competence will also be shared with participants that can
be used to implement the model.
About the Presenter: Tweety Yates is a member of the Department
of Special Education faculty at the University of Illinois and
serves as Co-Project Coordinator of the Center on the Social and
Emotional Foundation for Early Learning (CSEFEL). She is also
involved in several other early childhood projects that focus on early
literacy initiatives and relationship based interventions to support
development through parent-child interactions.
Sponsor: Department of Early Learning -Early Support for
Infants and Toddlers (DEL-ESIT)
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Pre06 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education Promoting Positive Behavior in
Young Children, presented by Carol A. Davis, Ed. D., University
of Washington with Ariane Gauvreau, M.Ed.
Many young children demonstrate behaviors that interventionists,
teachers, family members, and other service providers find
challenging; and often times result in frustration, stress, and isolation
for the child, caregiver, and family. To effectively address such
problem behaviors, it is crucial that families and interventionists
work together as a team to find solutions that really work for all
members who are implementing the plan. In this workshop, families
and service providers will learn how to use the principles of positive
behavior support to address commonly reported challenging
behaviors that arise in all settings. Participants will learn why it is
important to identify the function of a challenging behavior before
designing an intervention plan, use child centered assessment
procedures that will assist in identifying the function of a challenging
behavior, and developing comprehensive plans that are proven to
promote positive behaviors in young children.
About the Presenters: Carol Ann Davis, Ed.D., is an Associate
Professor in Special Education at the University of Washington. Her
research and professional development activities focus on children
with low-incidence disabilities and those with seriously challenging
behaviors. Ariane Gauvreau, M.Ed., is a doctoral student at the
University of Washington.
Sponsor: Haring Center for Applied Research & Training in
Education
Pre07 Practical Strategies for Young Children with Special
Needs in Inclusive Early Childhood Settings, presented by Gail
E. Joseph, Ph.D., with Lindsey Lawrence and Kristin Ainslie
Inclusion refers to the full and active participation of children with
disabilities in everyday activities. The success of inclusion depends
on everyone realizing that it involves much more than children “just
being there”.This workshop is designed to help teachers, administrators, and
others who care for young children increase their competence
and confidence in using research-based practices to effectively
include children with disabilities and support families in their
programs. The approach draws on the Building Blocks framework.
Building Blocks is a set of educational practices designed to help
teachers and teams include young children with disabilities in
Head Start, child care and other community-based early learning
environments. Building Blocks translates research-based practices
into accessible, easy-to-follow steps for inclusion. The framework
includes four levels of support: a quality early learning program,
modifications and adaptations that enhance children’s participation
and engagement, strategies for embedding teaching and learning
opportunities within typical activities, and more explicit, childfocused
instructional support. This framework is consistent with the
principles of response-to-intervention and other tiered approaches.
The framework provides teachers with strategies for determining
if children are making progress and information on how to provide
additional instructional support if they are not. The approach
helps children achieve valuable learning goals across all curricular
domains.
Participants will have the opportunity to see inclusion practices in
classrooms, to analyze instructional interactions in order to make
better decisions, and to practice using planning and problemsolving
tools to help children with disabilities learn and thrive in
their early childhood classrooms. Each participant will receive
complimentary complete training modules and materials for use in
their programs!
About the Presenter: Gail E. Joseph is an Assistant Professor at the
University of Washington, Psychology and Early Childhood and Family
Studies. She teaches courses, advises students, and conducts research on
early childhood topics. Her current projects include the Head Start Center
for Inclusion (HSCI) which works to increase the competence, confidence
and effectiveness of Head Start staff members to include children with
special needs. The HSCI develops evidence-based training materials and
professional development approaches to this end. Gail is also involved with
the Childcare Quality and Early Learning Center for Research and Training.
The mission is to play a critical role in efforts to improve the quality of early
care and education in Washington State and beyond by providing training,
support and monitoring on numerous early childhood assessments, as well
as studying the Quality Rating and Improvement System implementation
and outcomes.
Sponsor: Head Start Center for Inclusion at the University of
Washington
Pre08 Intercultural Exchange: Dancing with Difference, presented by
David Whitfield, Ed.D., and Natalie Mattson
The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity explains
how we experience cultural differences. In this session, we will
explore three critical aspects of effective cross-cultural relations
in educational settings by traveling through the mindset, heartset,
and skillset.
Mindset—Knowledge: explore aspects of cultural selfawareness;
build knowledge of culture-general frameworks
and culture-specific variables.
Heartset—Motivations and Viewpoint: develop strategies for
curiosity; initiative to explore other cultures; nonjudgmental
interaction posture; confidence to take appropriate risks;
cognitive flexibility; open-mindedness.
Skillset—Behavior Strategies: access empathy; increase ability
to gather appropriate information; observation and listening
skills; ability to perceive others accurately.
Note: after you register for this session, you will receive instructions
about how to access the take the Intercultural Developmental
Inventory (IDI), a statistically reliable, cross-culturally validated,
well tested measure of an individual’s and group’s intercultural
competence. The presenters recommend completing the IDI at
least ten days in advance of the preconference. This is an exciting
activity; you will not be disappointed!
There is a $10.00 materials fee.
About the Presenter: David Whitfield, Ed.D., is an international
presenter and organizational consultant with three decades of
experience in training, consulting, career coaching, leadership
coaching, and graduate teaching. He enjoys awakening the minds
of leaders and challenging the status quo by encouraging individuals
to lead from the heart. He studied organizational leadership at the
University of San Francisco, where he earned his doctorate.
About the Presenter: Natalie A. Mattson is as an instructor,
facilitator, certified mediator and certified coach. Natalie helps
people learn how to share what they think, believe, and feel, while
fostering skills to maintain the dignity of all parties, leading to
mission accomplishment and goal attainment. She works with clients
in public and private sectors to develop competencies at all levels
of organizations, creating necessary layers of leadership. Adding to
her Bachelor degree in Speech Communication, Natalie is pursuing
a Masters of Arts in Intercultural Relations from University of the
Pacific, School of International Studies.
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Pre09 Considering the Impact of Grief and Loss on Children and
Families, presented by Laurie Kanyer, MA, Certified Family
Life Educator
Loss is a natural part of life…that being said, it is often unexpected,
unanticipated and life changing. Each loss carries with it a unique
quality affecting the life of those who experience it. When a child
experiences a loss they have the complicated challenge of growing
up, maneuvering through on-going circumstances of their family
group AND coping with huge changes resulting from a death. We
now know that children “do grief” in a particular manner based
on their age and stage in life. In this new and expanded session
designed for professionals, Laurie will describe the grieving process
and outline activities that help bereaved children.
In this session, participants will have an opportunity to share
current grief and loss issues in their lives (both personally and
professionally) while exploring how it may affect children and their
families. This workshop aims to offer professionals information
about how to help children through the process of loss and grief.
You will learn specific classroom activities.
There is a $15.00 materials fee.
About the Presenter: Laurie Kanyer, authors practical books which
recognize important facts about families and grief. Kids grieve
many different losses, not just the life-changing ones like death and
divorce. Kanyer, who works with families where death, divorce, and
homelessness are all too common, describes the grieving process
and outlines activities that help bereaved children. The descendent
of an Irish immigrant family, she has spent nearly three decades
as a parenting educator and consultant in central Washington. A
graduate of Central Washington University and St. Mary’s University
of Minnesota, she is a certified family life educator and the author
of two parenting guides. Kanyer’s parenting articles also appear in
many different periodicals and online resources. She has a special
interest in coping with different kinds of loss, including the loss of
family and place associated with immigration, and the grief caused
by terminal and chronic illness within a family. Kanyer and her
husband are the parents of three.
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Pre10 Issues and Trends/Instructional Strategies in Early
Childhood Special Education: Providing Developmentally-
Appropriate Intervention to Infants and Toddlers with Autism,
presented by Jennifer Fung, Ph.D., with Julie Ashmun and
Bethany Younger
The purpose of this class is to provide participants with an overview
of autism and pervasive developmental delay in infants and
toddlers, and strategies that are effective with very young children
with these diagnoses. An emphasis of this class will be to blend
the strengths of different evidence-based approaches to create
programs that are effective and developmentally appropriate for
young children. Issues that will be addressed in this class include:
functional assessment and evaluation strategies; curricular issues;
instructional strategies; collection of data on child progress and
data-based decision making; and family support and education for
families to promote positive child-caregiver interactions.
About the Presenter: Jennifer Fung, Ph.D is an instructor in
the University of Washington’s special education program and
the coordinator for the infant-toddler autism program at the
Experimental Education Unit. She has a great deal of experience
with young children with special needs and their families, with
an emphasis on working with toddlers with autism spectrum
disorders. Her professional experiences include working as a special
educator, behavioral consultant, parent educator, and family support
coordinator for families of children who have just received an
autism diagnosis. As a researcher at the University of Washington,
Jennifer’s research interests and activities are in the areas of:
identification and evaluation of effective intervention strategies for
infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families, inclusion
and education of young children with disabilities in child care and
other natural environments, and the preparation and training of
future educators, both early childhood education and early childhood
special education personnel.
About the Presenter: Julie Ashmun, MEd, BCBA is the Professional
Development Unit Coordinator at the Norris and Dorothy Haring
Center for Applied Research & Training in Education. She has a
professional special education teaching certificate for the state of
Washington and has been working with students with disabilities,
including autism spectrum disorders, for over ten years. Additionally,
Julie has been a project coordinator for an extended day program
for students with autism, a trainer, consultant, and family resource
coordinator. Her research focuses on assessment and intervention
practices that provide for effective school based programs for
children with autism, providing effective social skills instruction
to preschool and school-age students, as well as effective practices
for training future educators in early childhood and elementary
education.
About the Presenter: Bethany Younger, MEd, BCBA is the
Infant/Toddler Intake Coordinator and Social Skills Coordinator
at the Haring Center. Bethany has been working with students
with special needs, including autism, for ten years and has been a
toddler classroom teacher and project coordinator for an extended
day program for students with autism.
Sponsor: Haring Center for Applied Research & Training in
Education
PRE11 Training on the Screen Tool for Autism in Toddlers and
Young Children (STAT™), presented by Wendy Stone, Ph.D.,
Director, UW Autism Center with Amy Swanson, STAT Training
Coordinator, Vanderbilt University
The Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers and Young Children
(STAT™) is an empirically based, interactive measure used to screen
for autism in children between 24 and 36 months old. It consists
of 12 activities in the areas of play, imitation, and communication
that can be administered in 20 minutes by trained community
service providers. Participants will learn about the development
and psychometric properties of the STAT, will observe videotape
examples of STAT administration and scoring, and will obtain hands
on practice giving and scoring the STAT. Following the workshop,
participants will send in videotapes that illustrate their administration
and scoring of the STAT. Certification for the STAT will be granted
after reliability is attained.
This advanced training is designed for professionals who have
experience working daily with young children with autism. Space is limited, and applications
for STAT training will be reviewed by the instructors before registration is confirmed.
The STAT Materials Kit costs $300 and is available from Vanderbilt University. Information
about ordering kits may be obtained by contacting Amy Swanson at amy.r.swanson@
vanderbilt.edu or 615-322-6533.
About the Presenters: Wendy Stone, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at University
of Washington and the Susan and Richard Fade Endowed Chair and Director of the
UW Autism Center. Her research and clinical work have been focused on the early
identification of children with autism for over twenty years, and she is an author of the
STAT. Amy Swanson has been coordinating STAT training activities for 6 years.
Hosts: UW Autism Center, University of Washington, and the Washington State
Department of Health Children with Special Healthcare Needs.
PRE12 Growing Up Wild. Presented by Kathy Jacobson and Sheila McCartan
Growing Up Wild is Project Wild’s new early education program that builds on children’s
sense of wonder about nature and invites them to explore wildlife and the world around
them. The Growing Up Wild curriculum includes 27 activities aligned to the National
Association for the Education of Young Children Accreditation Criteria and Head Starts’
Child Outcomes Framework. The hands-on, sensory activities spark curiosity, and make
connections to math, language and literacy, nature play, and scientific inquiry. They
provide an early foundation for developing positive impressions about nature and lifelong
social and academic skills. This session will address young children ages 3 through age
8. This session will be held at the Tacoma Nature Center.
There is a $25.00 materials fee.
Please note: This session will take place at the Tacoma Nature Center. You will not be
at the Tacoma Convention Center. The IECC will not be offering transportation to the
Tacoma Nature Center. Participants should plan accordingly.
About the Presenter: Kathy Jacobson is the coordinator of Educational Service District
113’s Chehalis Basin Education Consortium watershed education program. Kathy has a
BA degree in Parks and Resources, with an emphasis in environmental education. Kathy
has conducted nature-based classes, workshops, and excursions for preschoolers to high
school students for more than 25 years.
About the Presenter: Sheila McCartan is the Visitor Services Manager at the Nisqually
National Wildlife Refuge. She has a BA degree in Environmental Education and Early
Childhood Education, and 23 years experience as an environmental educator with the
Unites States Fish and Wildlife Service. The Nature Explore Area installed this spring
at the refuge was the first one in the country, and allows young children to interact with
nature in a safe and unstructured way.
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