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JFK Partners: Disability, Training, Assistive Technology, School-based
inclusion, Developmental disabilities, Developmental delays, Mental retardation,
Cognitive disabilities, Early Childhood, Child welfare, Neurodevelopmental
disabilities, Neurodevelopmental disorder
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New Video about Natural Environments!! "Just Being
Kids: Supports And Services For Infants And Toddlers And Their
Families In Everyday Routines, Activities, And Places" (50
minute Video and Facilitator's Guide)
Just Being Kids illustrates how supports and services
for infants and toddlers with special needs can be provided in the
context of families' everyday routines, activities, and places (also
known as "natural environments"). Each of the six stories on
this 50 minute video demonstrates recommended practices as therapists
and early childhood specialists work collaboratively with families to
achieve meaningful goals for their children in everyday routines and
activities.
Just Being Kids was developed for use in both
pre-service and in-service training programs with therapists, early
childhood specialists, and service coordinators. The video is also
useful for showing families examples of this approach to early
intervention supports and services. The 55-page companion Facilitator's
Guide offers trainers, educators, and team leaders background
information on the stories along with handouts, an extensive
bibliography, and suggestions for leading discussion groups and other
training activities to enhance participants' learning. To
view a copy of the Facilitator's Guide (PDF file 788kb),
please click on this link.
Produced by Early Childhood Connections of the Colorado Department
of Education, and JFK Partners, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. This videotape is available for $75.00 plus shipping from Western
Media Products.
This guidebook
will provide communities with a format for learning
about Part C early intervention services, child welfare services, and
how the two systems, along with other community partners can
collaborate to improve the identification of Part C eligible children
within the child welfare system.
 Gone
through any changes lately?
4 minute videotape(The slinky video!)
As we move into the 21st century, many of us are grappling with how
to best respond to the many fast-paced changes in our lives at work
and home. This four minute video helps people consider change
positively through the metaphor of a slinky. The video is an ideal
introduction for educational programs or workshops; for use by
discussion facilitators, teams leaders, trainers, educators,
administrators, managers, supervisors, and human resource personnel.
It's both funny and thought provoking. Produced by Larry Edelman and
Joy Browne, JFK Partners, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center. This videotape is available for $39.95 from Western
Media Products.
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| JFK Partners in conjunction with HCP has recently published
the AT Quick Guides. The AT Quick Guides were carefully
developed by an interdisciplinary group of experienced health
care providers and educators form both JFK Partners and HCP.
They are intended to provide a very brief overview of when and
how assistive technology (AT) might be beneficial for a child
who has developmental delays in one or more of the following
domains: communication,
adaptive skills and
cognition, fine
motor, gross
motor, self-help,
and sensory. |
We encourage you to copy the AT Quick Guides (with the copyright in
tact) for dissemination to parents, local healthcare providers, school
personnel, and anyone who could benefit from this information.
| To properly view AT Quick Guides, Acrobat Reader version 4.0
is required. If you do not have Acrobat Reader 4.0 or
higher please download. |
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Family-Directed
Transition Planning Guide
Having
difficulty understanding the Transition Planning Process? Not sure
what options exist for your child once they complete public school?
Then this guide is for you. The Family-Directed Transition Planning
Guide was prepared especially for families of students with
disabilities by parents who have already experienced the transition
process. Adapted for families in Colorado from a successful
publication developed in New York state, this version contains
information on: Regulations Affecting Transition Planning;
Participating in Transition Planning; Organizing Transition Planning;
Community Life; Contacting Agencies and Community Resources; Taking
the Next Steps; and a Glossary and Appendix. Produced
and Developed by the JFK Partners, Project WIN and Colorado Department
of Education, Special Education Services Unit, 303-866-6694. This
handbook may be downloaded and copied at no cost. Hard copies are available for
$8.00 by calling
Edie Bridge at 303-864-5266
The Colorado Project WIN Resource Guide:
A Guide to National, State and Local resources to Assist Individuals with Disabilities Seeking Employment and Support, is the result of extensive collaboration between Project WIN and the agencies and programs found in the book and with input from people with disabilities. The second edition contains a number of new features, including information on Consumer Navigator services, the School-to-Work Alliance Program, and services and programs arrayed with the Ticket to Work and Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act. There is also a new section on additional resources to access. This online version provides direct Internet links to many of the agencies and programs listed in the
Resource Guide.
The intent of the Resource Guide and this collaboration is to gather useful and accurate information for people with disabilities, agency staff, and others interested in the information contained in the guide. While the primary goal is to provide individuals with disabilities information in order to obtain and maintain employment, the breadth of this resource makes it suitable for an array of individuals and organizations to easily locate information about the various programs described in the Guide.
To update information contained in the guide, provide suggestions of programs to add in future editions, or make other comments, please contact
Project WIN at 303-315-1274.
Denver Developmental Materials
Trying to locate information about ordering the Denver
Developmental Screening Tool and related materials? For a catalog and
ordering information please contact:
Denver Developmental Materials, Inc.
P.O. Box 371075 Denver, CO 80237-5075
(303) 355-4729
1-800-419-4729
Fax (303) 355-5622
Web: www.denverii.com
Introduction to the Denver Model of Intensive Therapy for Young Children with Autism:
A Guide for Parents
A
Guide for Parents provides an overview of the Denver Model for
parents of children with autism spectrum disorders.
The main goals of treatment for young children in the Denver Model are:
(1) bringing the child into coordinated, interactive social relations for most of their waking hours, so that imitation and both symbolic and interpersonal (nonverbal, affective, pragmatic) communication can be established and the transmission of social knowledge and social experience can occur; and
(2) intensive teaching to “fill in” the learning deficits that have resulted from the child’s past lack of access to the social word, due to the effects of autism. The main tools for accomplishing these two major treatment goals include teaching imitation, developing awareness of social interactions and reciprocity, teaching the power of communication, teaching a symbolic communication system, and making the social world as understandable as the world of objects, so that the child with autism comes into the rich learning environment of social exchange. Just as the typically developing toddler and preschooler spend virtually all their waking hours engaged in the social milieu and learning from it, the young child with autism needs to be drawn back into the social milieu – a carefully prepared and planned milieu that the child can be an active participant, can understand, and to predict.
Click here for a complete Guideline for Parents
Cultural Diversity Monograph
 THE MONOGRAPH SERIES OF
JFK Partners
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver, Colorado
Madalynn Neu RN, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Click here to View the Monograph #5 in the series on Culture and Diversity
-July, 2001
JFK
Partners
University of Colorado Denver
13121 E. 17th Ave, C234
Aurora, CO 80045
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