Guiding Educators to Access Community Supports for Families and Students with Autism and Complex Learning Needs - Day 1

This event is part of a training series.  Please do not register for this event if you are not planning to attend the full series.

Join Kansas educators and related service providers working individually or in transition teams to collaborate and demonstrate understanding and implementation of transition services that support postsecondary outcomes. Participants will learn how to identify, explore and access community supports and, with a student in mind, will create an implementation plan that links student education, family engagement and communtiy supports. Teachers, transition specialists and coordinators, administrators, parents, related service providers, and paraprofessional staff are encouraged to attend.

Pre-training assignment:

• Choose and review one of the resources in the materials section of this registration site and be prepared to share 1 to 2 new insights.
• Complete the Transition Collaboration Strategy Survey in the materials section of this registration site and submit to melissaw@tasnatbs.org.

January 27 & 28: Virtual Training Days 1 & 2 (8:00-12:00)

February 9: Coaching Day - A virtual 30 minute to 1 hour coaching conversation

• Sign-up for your coaching conversation will occur during training (please come to the training with a choice of times in mind)

March 3: Virtual Implementation Day 3 (8:00-12:00)

***Upon completion of the training sessions, coaching conversation, and implementation day, participants will be awarded a certificate for 11 hours of continuing education.***

***Approved for 11 continuing education clock hours for attendance of all 3 training days by Kansas licensed Speech Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. Long-Term Sponsorship number: LTS-S1318***

Thank you for your interest in our training.  Please be aware that TASN ATBS developed this training to maximize active participation and designed it to provide meaningful professional development to you and the other participants.  To support you in optimizing the benefits of participating, we ask that you:

• Secure duty-free leave time away from distractions and your professional responsibilities; for online training this may mean securing a location away from your classroom.

• Add an auto-response to your email and voicemail, letting individuals know you will check email and voicemail (insert times that breaks and lunch are scheduled).

• Check the materials section of the registration site to ensure that you have the needed materials and supplies to participate.  

We recognize that stepping away from your daily duties is a huge challenge.  We hope that the training you are attending will provide you with knowledge, skills, and resources to serve your students better.  Thank you for actively engaging in the learning process.

• Identify and analyze the use of a variety of community supports for a specific student, educator, or agency (district/cooperative).

• Design and implement an implementation plan linking student education, family engagement and community supports.

• Evaluate the implementation plan using the criteria analysis.

• Implement, discuss, reflect upon, and analyze implementation plans by sharing outcomes and reflections with colleagues.