March 2022

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Structural Factors that Influence Outcomes for Black People with IDD

AAIDD released a special editing of Inclusion in September 2021 focused on racial and ethnic equity for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in society. The articles within the issue explore different topics related to intersectionality and the experiences of non-white individuals with IDD, as well as their families and caretakers. This webinar features a panel of authors published in the September 2021 Inclusion special issue sharing their expertise and research.
 

https://www.aaidd.org/education/event-details/2022/03/01/default-calendar/structural-facto...

Developing an Effective Peer Mentoring Program for Students with Disabilities

To navigate college independently and successfully, students with disabilities need to hone their skills to navigate what can sometimes be an inaccessible or non-inclusive environment. Peer Mentor Programs at Purdue University and the University of California, Riverside are examples of programming initiatives designed to support a student’s transition to college. Participants will learn how to establish an enriching peer mentoring program for students with disabilities and have the opportunity to learn strategies for recruitment, training, leadership development, and data collection.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=9842e178-e62f-4c47-87e5-53...

Trauma-Informed Teaching Strategies

Sexual violence, police brutality, child abuse and all manner of civil rights issues are common topics of conversation in higher education classes. For faculty, it can be challenging to navigate class discussions around these topics with the knowledge that students in the room may have a trauma background. Impacted students can have difficulties focusing on material and engaging in classroom discussions, making it essential to educate campus communities, especially instructors, on the prevalence of trauma, its impact on brain functioning, and ways to best support students who are at risk of re-traumatization. This train-the-trainer session will provide an overview of trauma and tips on how to support your campus in implementing trauma-informed teaching.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=4768f843-5112-4bc4-beeb-2c...

Disabled Women Make History

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation is pleased to announce a collaboration with Disability EmpowHer Network to host “Disabled Women Make History,” a free webinar featuring a panel discussion with three extraordinary women living with paralysis, on March 9, 2022. Curran Brown, Jill Moore, and Liz Persaud will explore the complexities, struggles, and accomplishments that they have experienced living with paralysis. Stephanie Woodward, Executive Director of Disability EmpowHer Network, will be leading this crucial conversation.

https://adasoutheast.org/events/disabled-women-make-history/

Using A Universal Design Framework to Underpin DEI Initiatives That Address Issues Related

Is disability a diversity category addressed in your campus Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives? Attend this webinar to consider how to promote the inclusion of individuals with disabilities as a marginalized group within DEI initiatives and to design DEI activities designed for another marginalized groups to be accessible and inclusive of its members who also have disabilities. A Universal Design Framework, DEI implementation model, and resources for guiding a DEI initiative on any campus will be shared.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=a71161da-7571-478b-971c-e2...

Release of the Annual Disability Statistics Collection Webinar

During the live-broadcasts, experts from StatsRRTC will provide, describe, and discuss the latest disability statistics from their annual collection of disability statistic tools including, The Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Disability Statistics Supplement, State Reports for County-level Data, New and Updated Infographics. This collection makes finding and using disability statistics easier for individuals working on legislative and other matters relating to persons with disabilities.

https://adasoutheast.org/events/release-of-the-annual-disability-statistics-collection-web...

2022 Annual Disability Statistics Conference and State-of-Science Conference on Disability Statistic

(2 days)

Registration is open for the 2022 Annual Disability Statistics Conference and State of the Science on Disability Statistics Conference. This two-day hybrid event will provide, describe, and discuss the latest disability statistics and advancements in disability statistic science. We'll also share the Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Disability Statistics Supplement, and State Reports for County-level Data.

https://disabilitycompendium.org/event?mc_cid=7998acda4e&mc_eid=35d95f5b31

2022 ADARA Conference

(5 days) Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town800 Rio Grande Blvd NWAlbuquerqueNM87104

Join the 2022 ADARA Conference on March 13-17 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference theme is “Soaring to New Heights.” This conference is an opportunity for you to gain new information, share your experiences, and hone your professional skills. Overall, at the conclusion of the conference, you will be able to identify new skills and training strategies that can be applied to your professional practice.

ADARA conference participants represent professionals in the fields of vocational rehabilitation services and behavioral health, including research, independent living, education, interpreting, transition, etc. At the end of the conference, participants from each service field will be able to integrate their service specialty with at least one other related service.  

https://www.adara.org/2022_conference.html

Accessible Social Media 2.0

Organizations, businesses, and public entities use social media to promote their products and mission as well as to engage members of the public. This webinar will cover how social managers and other staff can create and publish content for social media in a manner that is accessible to individuals with a variety of disabilities (vision, auditory, motor, and cognitive). The speaker will provide an overview of the basics of making content accessible on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Learn tips beyond the basics such as tips on writing alt text, ensuring language is accessible, and testing your own content. Participants will have an opportunity to ask the speaker questions following the presentation.

https://adata.org/event/accessible-social-media-20

Transportation and other Logistics when Adults with Disabilities Prepare to Enter the Workforce

 

Northstar Career Academy presents Down to the Details: Transportation and other Logistics when Adults with Disabilities Prepare to Enter the Workforce.

Learn about:
- A Multiprong Approach to Transportation Planning
- Safety Unsupervised: Learn From Parents Past
- Getting the Details Lined Up: Emails, IDs, Online Applications

Speakers: Kelsey Chalder, Travel Trainer at GRTC; Kathy Matthews, VP of Family Support & Services Planning Co-Director at Eli's Village

https://www.autismspeaks.org/events/down-details-transportation-and-other-logistics-when-a...

American Dream Employment Network (ADEN) Webinar: SSA Disability Benefits and Work Incentives

Are you a Social Security disability beneficiary and want to know how working will affect your benefits? Are you afraid of losing benefits or medical coverage if you return to work? Learn about important topics that will help you return to work and explore a better financial future.

https://www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/events/american-dream-employment-network-aden-...

Designing the Digital Accessibility Gateway: Using Data to Create Sustainability and Culture

The University of Cincinnati has devoted considerable resources to support improving our digital accessibility, included finding ways to collect and share data about accessibility and provide opportunities for various academic and business units to create action plans directly related to improving electronic accessibility. This led to the development of a collaborative tool called the Digital Accessibility Gateway. This tool provides tiered access, allowing administration and leadership to access a dashboard and drill down for specific information about units under their purview. Included are four modules: academic, web, 3rd party, and training. This tool was developed internally. Hear from a developer about the logistics of creating the tool and from our data collection expert why this is an important part of our commitment to accessibility.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=1d9218ba-412d-4522-8e65-08...

Emotional Support Animals in Housing, Classrooms, Dining Facilities, Testing Spaces, and More

Students are requesting to bring Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) to campus more and more often. The appropriate response to those requests can be unclear, given the multiple federal laws (and sometimes state laws) that come into play regarding ESAs. In this webinar, Scott will distinguish service animals from ESAs, describe the legal obligations imposed by the Fair Housing Act, Section 504, and the ADA, then discuss how schools should assess ESA requests in all its types of campus spaces. Plenty of time will be set aside for Q&A.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=91d2e337-749b-4c06-b3b7-93...

Improving Social Executive Function Skills | Parents

What parents and professionals often refer to as difficulty reading social cues is actually not accurate. When kids with ADHD struggle socially they have lagging social executive function skills. This webinar will provide you with an understanding of how to help build social executive function skills and clear up common misconceptions about social skills in kids with ADHD. It will be helpful to parents of boys and girls as well as educators and mental health professionals.

https://chadd.org/webinars/improving-social-executive-function-skills-ask-the-expert/

ADA National Network Learning Session: Increasing Equitable Healthcare for People with Disabilities

People with disabilities have long experienced barriers in accessing equitable healthcare and the COVID-19 pandemic served to starkly highlight the barriers and discrimination that continue for this population. Changes are needed in the U.S. health care system to address and eliminate these persistent problems to lessen the significant health disparities and poorer health outcomes of people with disabilities. This webinar will present findings and recommendations from the National Council on Disability's 2021 report, The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities.

https://adata.org/event/ada-national-network-learning-session-increasing-equitable-healthc...

Practical Application of the AHEAD Guidance on Disability Documentation Practices

Since its launch in 2012, the AHEAD Guidance on Documentation Practices encouraged discussion and reconsideration of the role of third-party documentation in the higher education disability accommodation process. Since then, many schools have wondered how to actually apply the guidance to make updates to office protocol. Through presentation, followed by a panel discussion, this webinar will revisit the guidance and offer practical information on how the suggested documentation practices can be applied in your disability office. Panelists with various office policies regarding documentation will explore what the guidance does--and does not--say in terms of utilizing the student narrative, professional judgement, and third-party information. Students’ need for disability documentation when applying to take professional licensing exams or graduate school entrance exams will also be addressed. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during this 2-hour session.

https://www.ahead.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=ab2ea4db-a093-4508-9dec-14...

New York Advocacy Webinar

Join Autism Speaks staff and New York policymakers for an update on federal and state policies affecting the autism community. The team will report on updates from Capitol Hill, policy developments during the 2022 state legislative session and updates on New York Medicaid services. The team will also share information about local events and resources.

Special Guest: NYS Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara

https://www.autismspeaks.org/NYAdvocacy2022

Disability Policy Seminar

(3 days) Renaissance Downtown Washington999 9th St NWWashingtonDC20001United States

The Disability Policy Seminar is a three-day annual federal legislative conference co-sponsored by The Arc, Autism Society, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Association of University Centers on Disabilities, National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities, United Cerebral Palsy, and Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (the partners). The Disability Policy Seminar strengthens our federal advocacy efforts by having people from across the country come to Washington, DC to receive training and updates and visit their Members of Congress. The Disability Policy Seminar promotes unity, movement building, and amplifies the concerns of people with IDD before Congress.

https://disabilitypolicyseminar.org

Solutions for Social Anxiety in Children and Teens with ADHD

Does your child or teen struggle with making and keeping friends, speaking in front of others, or joining group activities? It’s common for children and teens with ADHD to receive significant negative feedback from others about being different. Concerned about rejection, embarrassment, and exclusion, they often feel misunderstood and lonely. As a parent, it’s tough to watch them struggle. You may feel uncertain about how to intervene, powerless to help them, and frustrated when they refuse your help.

In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Saline will talk about how you can help your child learn how to participate more fully in social situations with greater confidence and less self-criticism. After explaining how social anxiety works, she will offer practical tools for teaching kids how to engage more effectively with peers and adults at school, at home, and in life. You will leave this webinar with useful strategies to improve your child’s conversational skills, ability to initiate and foster friendships, and increase their self-esteem.

https://chadd.org/webinars/how-adhd-and-social-anxiety-affects-relationships-thriving-with...

Self-Advocacy after Brain Injury: An Evident-Based Model of Empowerment

Advocating for one’s own needs and wishes requires self-awareness, problem-solving, assertive communication, and self-efficacy. 

Join this Mitchell Rosenthal Memorial Research webinar as Lenore Hawley discusses research demonstrating the efficacy of the Self Advocacy for Independent Life (SAIL) intervention, designed to empower individuals living with brain injury with self-advocacy skills and beliefs. The presentation will emphasize the clinical components and application of this intervention in outpatient and community settings. 

https://shop.biausa.org/product/ROSM033122/20220331-self-advocacy-after-brain-injury-an-ev...

Education for Students with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System

Students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) do not lose their right to public education, including all rights to special education, when they are adjudicated delinquent. Once in the juvenile justice system, young people with IDD may be placed in a variety of settings, ranging from home confinement to foster homes to group residential settings and so on, all the way down the continuum to secure detention and solitary confinement. Wherever they are, they have the same rights to access the coursework the state requires for all students, as well as the services and supports provided by their IEP and/or Section 504 plan. In a secure setting, the way in which some services are provided may be altered, but the services cannot be denied. Register for this webinar to learn what rights students in the juvenile justice system have and how to assist students to ensure those needs are met. 

https://thearc-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016450247747/WN_THHpdsojSMKrip-FSpjFAg

Participatory Research with Autistic Adults

The webinar will launch this year’s series on using participatory research approaches with autistic adults. Dr. Nicolaidis will start with an overview of different types of participatory models, and how they may be applied to conduct research in partnership with autistic adults and other stakeholders. She will then offer practical examples, lessons learned, and recommendations from her work with the Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE; www.aaspire.org) and other participatory research projects over the past two decades.

https://researchautism.org/event/webinar-participatory-research-with-autistic-adults/?inst...

Literacy – The Human Right of the 21st Century

In a knowledge economy, the human right of the 21st Century is literacy. What is at stake for children who fall through the cracks in systems without a strategically designed literacy safety net in place? What do parents and other community stakeholders deserve to know about this high stakes imperative?  What are the coordinated systems that lay a blue print to successfully develop skilled readers, writers, and critical thinkers? What is possible when we ensure children become literate for a lifetime, regardless of zip code or student group?

https://dyslexiaida.org/event/webinar-literacy-the-human-right-of-the-21st-century-present...

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