High Expectations for Achievement
Pennsylvania Low Incidence Institute 2013
High Expectations for Achievement August 5-8, 2013 The Penn Stater Conference Center State College, Pennsylvania
Escape the summer heat and participate in four days of intensive learning specific to the needs of students and young children with low incidence disabilities.
Are you looking for ways to support learning and achievement for young children and school-age students with low incidence disabilities? Do you want to learn about teaching strategies that have the greatest impact on student achievement? Are you a professional or a parent who is working or living with a young child or school-age student with deafness or hearing loss, deaf-blindness, blindness, visual impairments, multiple disabilities, traumatic brain injury, intellectual disabilities, or complex instructional needs?
This is the conference for you. Join us for this annual, statewide institute, which offers an opportunity to learn and engage with colleagues and families from across the state, highlighting effective instructional strategies and interventions that support high achievement for all students.
An Invigorating Keynote The Blind Advantage: How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone — Dr. William Henderson “You should get out of education.” That was the advice first-year teacher Bill Henderson received when he discovered he was gradually losing his vision. Instead, Henderson persevered and became principal of the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Boston, an ethnically and economically diverse school where about a third of the students have mild, moderate, or significant disabilities. Knowing that a disability wouldn’t stop him, Henderson understood that all children with disabilities could thrive in a rigorous academic setting. He went on to use his leadership skills and insight
to transform the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Dorchester. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Henderson will describe how the journey into blindness helped him to develop key qualities—determination, vision, sensitivity, organization, collaboration, and humor—that made him a more effective principal. At the same time, he will show how the inclusionary policies and practices at the O’Hearn School (now renamed the William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School) elicited and developed these qualities in others.
Cool Opportunities More information about these opportunities is available at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence
Children’s Institute
Parent Scholarships
To support family participation in the conference, a Children’s Institute will be available. This institute offers an on-site, structured, and fun environment for children (ages birth to 21) with low incidence disabilities, and their siblings. Attendance is limited to 30 participants, for whom we must receive completed registration packets.
Reimbursement for travel expenses will be available to a limited number of parents attending the Pennsylvania Low Incidence Institute, August 5-8. These funds will be provided through the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project, and Early Intervention Technical Assistance.
Great Start
Student Scholarships
Special sessions will be available for those living and working with children wih sensory impairments, birth through age 6.
Parent Lounge
Scholarships are available for current students or recent graduates of a Pennsylvania college or university, with a major in special education, education of the visually impaired or hearing impaired, or related professions.
To promote opportunities for networking among families, a Parent Lounge will be provided for families to meet.
Refreshing Sessions More information about the sessions and presenters is available at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence A Primer of Special Education Law for Students With Low Incidence Disabilities Perry Zirkel, Ph.D., J.D.
Blockbuster Braille
Frances Mary D’Andrea, Ph.D.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Switches and More Karen Kangas
Focus on Strengths: Imagine the Possibilities! Winnie Dunn, Ph.D.
Interventions for Adolescents With Aquired Brain Injury Lyn Turkstra, Ph.D.
Making Physical Activitiy Meaningful for Students Who Have a Visual Impairment, Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, or Deafblind: At School, Home, and in the Community Beth Foster, CAPE
Opening the Door to Classroom Success: Addressing Access Needs Karen Anderson
Pain in CHARGE Syndrome Timothy Hartshorne, Ph.D.
The Use of Antecedent Strategies to Promote Skill Acquistion and to Manage Problematic Behaviors in Individuals With Multiple Disabilities Philip Kanfush, Ph.D.
Who Should Attend Parents, teachers, speech and language clinicians, audiologists, paraprofessionals, occupational and physical therapists, consultants, service coordinators, and administrators are encouraged to attend.
Registration Information Register online at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence. The registration fee covers all instruction, break service, and lunches. Registrants are responsible for all other meals and lodging. Pennsylvania professional: $150 Out-of-state professional: $225 Professional single-day rate: $75 Pennsylvania parent: no charge Out-of-state parent: $150
Hotel Accommodations You will be responsible for making your own hotel reservation and payment. Blocks of rooms will be held at hotels in the State College area for those attending this institute.
Special thanks to Rick Guidotti of Positive Exposure for the amazing photographs of children who attended the 2012
Scan the QR code with a smartphone to visit the Low Incidence Institute website.
Low Incidence Children’s Institute. For more information about Positive Exposure, visit positiveexposure.org.
DEPARTMENT OF E D U CAT I O N
High Expectations for Achievement August 5-8, 2013 The Penn Stater Conference Center State College, Pennsylvania
Escape the summer heat and participate in four days of intensive learning specific to the needs of students and young children with low incidence disabilities.
Are you looking for ways to support learning and achievement for young children and school-age students with low incidence disabilities? Do you want to learn about teaching strategies that have the greatest impact on student achievement? Are you a professional or a parent who is working or living with a young child or school-age student with deafness or hearing loss, deaf-blindness, blindness, visual impairments, multiple disabilities, traumatic brain injury, intellectual disabilities, or complex instructional needs?
This is the conference for you. Join us for this annual, statewide institute, which offers an opportunity to learn and engage with colleagues and families from across the state, highlighting effective instructional strategies and interventions that support high achievement for all students.
An Invigorating Keynote The Blind Advantage: How Going Blind Made Me a Stronger Principal and How Including Children with Disabilities Made Our School Better for Everyone — Dr. William Henderson “You should get out of education.” That was the advice first-year teacher Bill Henderson received when he discovered he was gradually losing his vision. Instead, Henderson persevered and became principal of the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Boston, an ethnically and economically diverse school where about a third of the students have mild, moderate, or significant disabilities. Knowing that a disability wouldn’t stop him, Henderson understood that all children with disabilities could thrive in a rigorous academic setting. He went on to use his leadership skills and insight
to transform the Patrick O’Hearn Elementary School in Dorchester. In this keynote presentation, Dr. Henderson will describe how the journey into blindness helped him to develop key qualities—determination, vision, sensitivity, organization, collaboration, and humor—that made him a more effective principal. At the same time, he will show how the inclusionary policies and practices at the O’Hearn School (now renamed the William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School) elicited and developed these qualities in others.
Cool Opportunities More information about these opportunities is available at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence
Children’s Institute
Parent Scholarships
To support family participation in the conference, a Children’s Institute will be available. This institute offers an on-site, structured, and fun environment for children (ages birth to 21) with low incidence disabilities, and their siblings. Attendance is limited to 30 participants, for whom we must receive completed registration packets.
Reimbursement for travel expenses will be available to a limited number of parents attending the Pennsylvania Low Incidence Institute, August 5-8. These funds will be provided through the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network, the Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Project, and Early Intervention Technical Assistance.
Great Start
Student Scholarships
Special sessions will be available for those living and working with children wih sensory impairments, birth through age 6.
Parent Lounge
Scholarships are available for current students or recent graduates of a Pennsylvania college or university, with a major in special education, education of the visually impaired or hearing impaired, or related professions.
To promote opportunities for networking among families, a Parent Lounge will be provided for families to meet.
Refreshing Sessions More information about the sessions and presenters is available at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence A Primer of Special Education Law for Students With Low Incidence Disabilities Perry Zirkel, Ph.D., J.D.
Blockbuster Braille
Frances Mary D’Andrea, Ph.D.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Switches and More Karen Kangas
Focus on Strengths: Imagine the Possibilities! Winnie Dunn, Ph.D.
Interventions for Adolescents With Aquired Brain Injury Lyn Turkstra, Ph.D.
Making Physical Activitiy Meaningful for Students Who Have a Visual Impairment, Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, or Deafblind: At School, Home, and in the Community Beth Foster, CAPE
Opening the Door to Classroom Success: Addressing Access Needs Karen Anderson
Pain in CHARGE Syndrome Timothy Hartshorne, Ph.D.
The Use of Antecedent Strategies to Promote Skill Acquistion and to Manage Problematic Behaviors in Individuals With Multiple Disabilities Philip Kanfush, Ph.D.
Who Should Attend Parents, teachers, speech and language clinicians, audiologists, paraprofessionals, occupational and physical therapists, consultants, service coordinators, and administrators are encouraged to attend.
Registration Information Register online at: www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/low-incidence. The registration fee covers all instruction, break service, and lunches. Registrants are responsible for all other meals and lodging. Pennsylvania professional: $150 Out-of-state professional: $225 Professional single-day rate: $75 Pennsylvania parent: no charge Out-of-state parent: $150
Hotel Accommodations You will be responsible for making your own hotel reservation and payment. Blocks of rooms will be held at hotels in the State College area for those attending this institute.
Special thanks to Rick Guidotti of Positive Exposure for the amazing photographs of children who attended the 2012
Scan the QR code with a smartphone to visit the Low Incidence Institute website.
Low Incidence Children’s Institute. For more information about Positive Exposure, visit positiveexposure.org.
DEPARTMENT OF E D U CAT I O N
