Videos

: Guest Dr. Johanna Fitzgerald shares why special education is not a place rather a continuum of services matched to student needs.

This is a description of the focused support for school teams for students with deaf-blindness around the secondary transition process. Teams participated in monthly webinars and applied concepts learned to the individual student’s plan. Each year new teams are selected to participate. For more information, contact your regional PaTTAN office.

In this video you will learn what educational interpreters do, how they are qualified, and in what settings they work.

In order to teach students with autism and other disabilities to make transitions from preferred to lesser preferred activities, a preventative and positive teaching protocol is described and demonstrated. The protocol focuses on systematically teaching children to make hierarchically arranged transitions through use of reinforcement procedures.

This session will provide specific intervention strategies to maximize cognitive and communication function in adolescents with acquired brain injury, based on benchmarks in adolescent brain and behavior development and common cognitive and communication impairments in adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), as well as other types of acquired brain injuries (injuries occurring after birth).

There are several areas of need when thinking about students with autism. Dr. Mark Sundberg talks with us about the essential components to consider in designing effective school-based programs.

This session will provide an overview of Tier 3 problem-solving associated with early reading difficulties and disabilities among students in grades K-2. Cross-disciplinary teams will learn about the etiology and treatment of severe reading difficulties and apply learning through a case study. Link to Materials: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZHn490IopSRVlZsb1nor8_wm2ceQnGeg?usp=sharing

This brief description reviews the contents of the training videos included in this series. It includes a list of critical elements for effective instruction for many autism support programs. The guide segments that follow are presented to provide viewers with an introduction to some key elements to consider in designing effective instruction for students with autism.

This presentation provides an introduction to Maximizing Academic Access, Expectations, and Learning including an overview of the principles of MAX, the students who are the focus of this work, and the steps to get started.