Indiana Institute FYI

Week of December 17, 2007

FYI Spotlight

· Social Security Benefits Planning Regional Workshops for
x2008
· Ready S.E.T. Go! Sensorimotor Early Childhood/Elementary
xThemes Workshop
· New CEEP Education Policy Brief... Improving School
xClimate and StudentxBehavior: A New Paradigm for Indiana Schools
· Library Corner

Upcoming

Social Security Benefits Planning Regional Workshops for 2008: The Indiana Institute's Center on Community Living and Careers, in conjunction with Vocational Rehabilitation Services, is sponsoring a series of regional two-day workshops on social security and benefits planning.

Learning objectives include:

· Basics of supplemental security income and social security disability
xinsurance;
· Work incentives for SSI;
· Work incentives for SSDI trial work periods; and
· Other federal and state programs such as Medicare and Medicare Part D.

Case managers, VR counselors, family members, persons with disabilities, BDDS personnel, representative payees, independent living personnel, transition coordinators, mental health personnel, advocates, employment specialists, and residential staff should plan to attend.

Training dates and locations include:

March 4-5, 2008
Holiday Inn Airport
Evansville, IN

May 20-21, 2008
REAL Services
South Bend, IN

July 29-30, 2008
Columbus City Hall
Columbus, IN

October 28-29, 2008
Bosma Industries
Indianapolis, IN

Registration fee is $85.00 per person. There is no cost to VRS personnel. Seating is limited to 25 attendees per site. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available at the training. To register, contact Sherry Redman at (812) 855-6508, e-mail sredman@indiana.edu, or visit http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/cclc/ for more information.

Ready S.E.T. Go! Sensorimotor Early Childhood/Elementary Themes Workshop: The Institute’s Indiana Resource Center for Autism will host a one-day workshop, March 10, 2008, at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, Indianapolis, with a focus on:

· Sensory Processing;
· Sensorimotor Themes;
· School Readiness Skills;
· Theme Examples;
· Working with Special Populations; and
· Take Home Lesson Plans.

The featured speaker is Jenny Clark Brack, a licensed Pediatric Occupational Therapist with over 18 years of experience working as a school-based occupational therapist, an independent contractor for early intervention services, a private practitioner, an author, and inventor. Brack won the Media in Excellence Video Award from the Autism Society of America in 2007.

Registration fee is $100.00 per person. Certificates of Attendance, CEUs, and CRUs will be available on-site for an administrative fee of $15.00. For information on Consumer Investment Funds for family members or individuals with disabilities in Indiana, contact the Indiana Governor’s Council for People with Disabilities at (317) 232-7770. Also, family members of individuals, birth to 21, with disabilities in Indiana, can contact the Indiana Institute at 1-800-825-4733 (fif@indiana.edu) for Family Involvement Funds.

For content questions, contact Cathy Pratt at (812) 855-6508 or e-mail prattc@indiana.edu. To register, contact Kelly Doyle or Donna Beasley at (812) 855-6508 or e-mail keadoyle@indiana.edu or dbeasley@indiana.edu.

Policy Brief

New CEEP Education Policy Brief... Improving School Climate and Student Behavior: A New Paradigm for Indiana Schools: This eight-page Education Policy Brief, developed collaboratively between the Indiana Institute’s Center on Education and Lifelong Learning and Indiana University’s Center for Evaluation and Education Policy,  presents common discipline practices in schools and discusses current Indiana discipline data. The brief examines school-wide Positive Behavior Support (PBS), an alternative approach to student discipline, and its implementation nationally. Perspectives are included from an Indiana school principal who has implemented PBS in her school, and a University of Oregon researcher familiar with PBS systems in a variety of school settings. The brief presents possible PBS implementation recommendations for Indiana educators and policymakers to consider as a way to shift the paradigm of school discipline. Visit http://ceep.indiana.edu/new/#23 to review the full policy brief in PDF format.

Library Holiday Hours

Holiday Hours: The Library will close at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 21st.  We will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 7th. 

New Items: The following new materials may be borrowed by Indiana residents from the Center for Disability Information and Referral (CeDIR) at the Institute. To check out materials, contact the Library at 1-800-437-7924, send e-mail to cedir@indiana.edu, or visit us at 2853 East Tenth Street in Bloomington.

Fernster, C. (2004). Wheat-Free Recipes & Menus. New York, NY: Avery.

Pascal, C. (2005).  The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook. Ridgefield, CT: Vital Health Publishing.

Freeman, J. M., Kossoff, E. H., Freeman, J. B., & Kelly, M.T. (2007). The Ketogenic Diet (4th ed.). New York: Demos Medical Publishing.

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