Attorney Colleen E. Masse will discuss strategies to qualify for public benefits, protect income, and put a financial plan in place to secure your child’s future, such as: Special Needs Trusts; ABLE accounts; Social Security Disability Insurance; SSI; and health insurance (Medicaid and Medicare). (Snow date: Friday, Feb. 22)
Dr. Douglas DeMassa will discuss the effects of exercise on the brain and how physical activity can help students improve attention, endurance, short-term memory skills, impulse control, time-on-task, visual tracking, balance, coordination, and self-confidence. DeMassa is a Doctor of Chiropractic with a Bachelor’s in Science in Sports Biology, a Master’s of Science in Human Nutrition, over […]
Difficult conversations can be unpleasant, confrontational and provoking. A common fear is that an already challenging situation may get worse because of unresolved issues, conflict or loss of trust among interested parties. When it comes to PPT or 504 meetings with parents and school personnel, the stakes are often high: decisions made during these meetings […]
Know any bright girls who are inflexible, argumentative, and emotionally over-reactive or who shut down at times? Who have been called oppositional, avoidant or attention-seeking? Who can’t quite fit in with peers? They may have “Asperger’s,” have NLD, or be on the autism spectrum. A proper diagnosis allows us to better understand and help these […]
The use of sophisticated technology to intervene and improve brain function promises a transformation in practice in many fields: education, rehabilitation, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology. Qualitative Electroencephalography (qEEG) images very specific locations and types of brain activity, leading to improved diagnosis and treatment recommendations. Neurofeedback improves the regulation of its activity in these identified areas, […]
This year, the CT State Department of Education has implemented a new IEP form and data collection system. Gerri Fleming, a special education advocate, and Sharon Golder, a special educator, will discuss CT’s Common Core standards and explain how to use them to create specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goals and objectives for […]
Join Julie Swanson, the "Life Skills Lady" and special education advocate, and learn how the 10 domains of life skills that are crucial for a student’s independence and for increasing success in adulthood. Julie will explain how to start this process as early as possible as well as how to incorporate adaptive and life skills […]
Join SPED*NET for this webinar, “Special Needs Kids, Extraordinary Parenting, Strong Siblings,” For siblings, the experience of having a brother or sister with special needs can be uniquely enriching. Among other things, it provides opportunities to develop empathy, acceptance and appreciation of differences, and it encourages learning about various relationships. On the other hand, siblings […]
This event has been canceled. Special education can be a confusing and complicated system of acronyms and processes. In this presentation, Attorney Melissa Accomando will cover everything you need to know to prepare for, and participate in, your child’s Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meeting. You will learn about the process for referring a child […]
Please join us in the Brubeck Room at Wilton Library for an important presentation presented by SPED*NET on what you need to know to prepare for and participate in your child's IEP meeting. You will learn about the process for referring a child for an initial special education evaluation; how to review evaluations and prepare […]
