High Expectations for Achievement
Pennsylvania Low Incidence Institute 2014
High Expectations for Achievement August 4-7, 2014 Hershey Lodge and Convention Center Hershey, 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.
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 I Can See Clearer Now — Djenne-Amal Morris Raising a child with “extra-special” needs can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding experiences of one’s life. As a mother of an amazing son with CHARGE Syndrome, Djenne-Amal Morris strives to build an atmosphere of support and empowerment for families of children with disabilities and the professionals who serve them. In this keynote presentation, Ms. Morris brings passion and real-life experience to her role as a
parent, a professional trainer, a facilitator, and a motivational speaker who views the world not as it is, but as it could be. Using real-life examples (the good, the bad, and the not so pretty), Ms. Morris will take the audience on her own cyclical journey from parent to professional and back again. She will talk about the tools she has gathered along the way that have made this journey a very productive and successful one.
Cool Opportunities 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 10) 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 4-7. 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
By Invitation
Special sessions will be available for those living and working with children with sensory impairments, birth through age 6.
Parent Lounge To promote opportunities for networking among families, a Parent Lounge will be provided for families to meet.
• Assistive Technology Boot Camp • Deaf-Blind Intervener Sessions • Project MAX Summer Institute for Cohort 2 • Visual Phonics Workshop
Refreshing Sessions Here Are Just Some of the Sessions Being Offered • Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Birth to Six • Beyond 90-90-90: Positioning and Access to Support Inclusion • Beyond the Literacy Toolkit: Extending the Application of Intervention and Assessment Strategies for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing • Creating Self-Regulation Intervention Plans for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries • Delivering Family Centered Early Intervention • Effective Use of the Communication Plan to Promote Success • The Impact of Delayed Pragmatic Skills for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Increasing Language Outcomes for Children Ages 3-6 • It Can Be Done: Creating a Dynamic Parent/Professional Partnership • Let’s Get Creative…A Make-and-Take! • The Role of School Therapists in an Age of Education Accountability and Reform • Preservice, Inservice, Daily Service: Teachers and Acquired Brain Injury
• Sensing, Acting, Learning: Strategies for Young Learners with Visual Impairments • Sensory Efficiency: Learning Media Assessment for Students with Visual Impairments and Complex Instructional Needs • Smart but Scattered: Strategies for Home and School Executive Function • Supporting Language Outcomes for Children 0-3: Assessment Driving Strategies • Teaching Self-regulation Skills in Children • Understanding Cued Speech as a Communication Option • Using Cara’s Kit • The Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist (VCSL)
“Can’t Miss” Presenters • Warren Estabrooks • Richard Guare • Karen Kangas • Lana Edwards Santoro • Millie Smith • Gail Van Tatenhove
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 Registration will be available at tinyurl.com/lowincidenceinstitute in May 2014. The registration fee covers all instruction, break service, and lunches. Registrants are responsible for all other meals and lodging. Early Bird Walk-in Pennsylvania professional: Out-of-state professional: Professional single-day rate: Pennsylvania parent: Out-of-state parent:
$150 $200 $225 $275 $75 $125 — no charge — $150 $200
Special thanks to
Early bird registration ends July 25, 2014.
Hotel Accommodations You will be responsible for making your own hotel reservation and payment. Participants may register for rooms at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center by calling 800-437-7439.
Rick Guidotti of Positive Exposure for the amazing photographs of children who attended the 2012 Low Incidence Children’s Institute. For more information about Positive Exposure, visit
More information is available at: tinyurl.com/lowincidenceinstitute
Follow us on Twitter. #LII2014
DEPARTMENT OF E D U CAT I O N
positiveexposure.org.
High Expectations for Achievement August 4-7, 2014 Hershey Lodge and Convention Center Hershey, 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.
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 I Can See Clearer Now — Djenne-Amal Morris Raising a child with “extra-special” needs can be one of the most challenging, yet rewarding experiences of one’s life. As a mother of an amazing son with CHARGE Syndrome, Djenne-Amal Morris strives to build an atmosphere of support and empowerment for families of children with disabilities and the professionals who serve them. In this keynote presentation, Ms. Morris brings passion and real-life experience to her role as a
parent, a professional trainer, a facilitator, and a motivational speaker who views the world not as it is, but as it could be. Using real-life examples (the good, the bad, and the not so pretty), Ms. Morris will take the audience on her own cyclical journey from parent to professional and back again. She will talk about the tools she has gathered along the way that have made this journey a very productive and successful one.
Cool Opportunities 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 10) 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 4-7. 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
By Invitation
Special sessions will be available for those living and working with children with sensory impairments, birth through age 6.
Parent Lounge To promote opportunities for networking among families, a Parent Lounge will be provided for families to meet.
• Assistive Technology Boot Camp • Deaf-Blind Intervener Sessions • Project MAX Summer Institute for Cohort 2 • Visual Phonics Workshop
Refreshing Sessions Here Are Just Some of the Sessions Being Offered • Auditory-Verbal Therapy: Birth to Six • Beyond 90-90-90: Positioning and Access to Support Inclusion • Beyond the Literacy Toolkit: Extending the Application of Intervention and Assessment Strategies for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing • Creating Self-Regulation Intervention Plans for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries • Delivering Family Centered Early Intervention • Effective Use of the Communication Plan to Promote Success • The Impact of Delayed Pragmatic Skills for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Increasing Language Outcomes for Children Ages 3-6 • It Can Be Done: Creating a Dynamic Parent/Professional Partnership • Let’s Get Creative…A Make-and-Take! • The Role of School Therapists in an Age of Education Accountability and Reform • Preservice, Inservice, Daily Service: Teachers and Acquired Brain Injury
• Sensing, Acting, Learning: Strategies for Young Learners with Visual Impairments • Sensory Efficiency: Learning Media Assessment for Students with Visual Impairments and Complex Instructional Needs • Smart but Scattered: Strategies for Home and School Executive Function • Supporting Language Outcomes for Children 0-3: Assessment Driving Strategies • Teaching Self-regulation Skills in Children • Understanding Cued Speech as a Communication Option • Using Cara’s Kit • The Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist (VCSL)
“Can’t Miss” Presenters • Warren Estabrooks • Richard Guare • Karen Kangas • Lana Edwards Santoro • Millie Smith • Gail Van Tatenhove
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 Registration will be available at tinyurl.com/lowincidenceinstitute in May 2014. The registration fee covers all instruction, break service, and lunches. Registrants are responsible for all other meals and lodging. Early Bird Walk-in Pennsylvania professional: Out-of-state professional: Professional single-day rate: Pennsylvania parent: Out-of-state parent:
$150 $200 $225 $275 $75 $125 — no charge — $150 $200
Special thanks to
Early bird registration ends July 25, 2014.
Hotel Accommodations You will be responsible for making your own hotel reservation and payment. Participants may register for rooms at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center by calling 800-437-7439.
Rick Guidotti of Positive Exposure for the amazing photographs of children who attended the 2012 Low Incidence Children’s Institute. For more information about Positive Exposure, visit
More information is available at: tinyurl.com/lowincidenceinstitute
Follow us on Twitter. #LII2014
DEPARTMENT OF E D U CAT I O N
positiveexposure.org.
