3rd Annual Summer Institute - presented by Temple University's Institute on Disabilities

3rd Annual Summer Institute

Beyond Inclusion—Improving Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Tools and Strategies for Including Diverse Learners

Presented by the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University in collaboration with Temple University’s College of Education.

For professionals, administrators and teachers in Philadelphia schools and surrounding areas, school community members and parents.

Welcoming experts in the field

to present their perspective on this year’s focus—

Positive Behavioral Supports

 July 10,11, & 12, 2012 

Temple University Main Campus Philadelphia, PA

Registration Fee: $395 per person*

(To register for only one day: $195 per person)

*For parents or persons with disabilities (who are not education professionals), a limited number of scholarships may be available upon request.

NOW OFFERED AS A 3-CREDIT COURSE!

Special REDUCED fee of $325 if you:

1. Submit registration and payment before JUNE 6, 2012  NOW EXTENDED!!

OR

   2. Register and submit payment as a TEAM member (three or more from your school or agency)

ACT 48 CREDITS AVAILABLE

Registration deadline: June 22, 2012* 

*Deadline for registration with accommodations is June 18

 Register online now!

   http://disabilities.temple.edu/programs/bi/bi2012.shtml    

Tuesday, July 10

Filmmaker Dan Habib

screens his new film "Who Cares About Kelsey?" and

hosts a stimulating discussion on inclusion for students with emotional/behavioral challenges.

Wednesday, July 11

Matthew Tincani, PhD,

Associate Professor of Special Education, Temple University,

will present an overview of positive behavior support as a model for preventing challenging behavior across home, school, and community environments.

PLUS

Jodi Manning, Parent Training Project Coordinator, National Bullying Prevention Center will present on bullying awareness and prevention of bullying for students with disabilities.

Thursday, July 12

 Carrie Leonhart,

Augmentative Communication Services Coordinator at the Institute on Disabilities at Temple University

will discuss how parents and teachers can support communication.

PLUS

Family Member Panel Discussion

where students with disabilities and their family members discuss the effects of Positive Behavioral Supports.

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 Register online now!

  http://disabilities.temple.edu/programs/bi/bi2012.shtml

For more information, contact Julie Kessler, PhD

TEL: 215-204-1977 or EMAIL: jkessler@temple.edu

A program of the

Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, College of Education

www.disabilities.temple.edu

Fantastic Article: "What It's Like to Have Autism"

http://www.webmd.com/brain/features/understanding-autism-symptoms

Nanny Nanny Boo Boo!

Sylas Sings and Dances

Here Sylas is imitating a Yo Gabba Gabba dancy dance - this is the first time I've ever seen him follow directions from someone on TV.  I'm so proud!

Here is Sylas singing along with "Red Solo Cup" by Toby Keith... he only says a few of the words, but his timing is dead on, and I didn't even know he paid attention when I listened to music in the car!!!

I AM NOT SCARED!

I am not scared.  I am not scared.  I am not scared.

I figure if I keep saying this out loud, in text, under my breath, to God, whatever, that I will somehow magically NOT be scared anymore.  But unfortunately, I know I'm still going to be scared.  It's a NEEDLE.  No wait, it's TWO NEEDLES.  In my neck.  S C A R Y ! ! ! !

The short version of this story is that back in late March, I was really really sick with some flu or strep or something of that nature, and I remember finding a small lump on my neck while I was out visiting my sister in Vegas the first week of April.  I remember thinking it was a swollen gland and that it would go away.  But it didn't.  So I went to my doctor about 4 weeks ago, and he thought it might be a branchial cleft cyst, which, according to Wikipedia is, "an oval, moderately movable cystic mass that develops under the skin in the neck between the sternocleidomastoid muscle and the pharynx."  Not a big deal.  He suggested I have a CT scan done to confirm, which I did.  I found out last week that the mass is NOT a branchial cleft cyst, nor is it a swollen gland or lymph node, but it is a mass the size of a golf ball attached to my thyroid.  So I am going in for a biopsy tomorrow morning... hence my TWO NEEDLE PHOBIA!  One to numb my neck and one to extract cells from this mass.  I'm only just a little scared.  Actually to be honest, I'm more scared of the needles at this point than this thing actually being cancerous.  Either way, it has to come out, and either way I can live without a thyroid.  Let's just keep our fingers crossed that it's not cancerous, and if it is, that it's only in the thyroid... because there has been a lot of cancer in my family, and I'm not about to be a casualty!

Wish me luck!

PS, The boys are doing very well and I am happy to report that the pink eye and strep that have also paralyzed the Fleming household this month have *almost* left the building.

PSS, here is a drawing for Sylas that Zeke and I worked on while we were all sick, and one Zeke made of his own...

DON'T STOP!

Thank you to all of you who have taken an interest in following my blog and my journey with Sylas.  I just wanted to give you all a quick update - I've had a pretty serious health issue come up in the past 2 weeks, and as a result of going to a few hospitals and doctor's offices, I now have a horrible nasty strep and pink eye in both eyes, so I haven't been able to sit long enough at the computer to write anything for a couple of days, but believe me, I'll be back!  Please check back in about a week... don't forget about us and don't stop reading!

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!!!