Session 4 Presentations

A place-based curriculum unit designed to build students energy literacy through their own school building.

The APERS is an instrument, developed out of the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorder, intended to assess the quality of the environment and programming specific to students with autism. This session frames the discussion around best practices for educating students with autism by using de-identified sample and summary data from classroom consultations across Missouri that utilized the APERS. Overall trends in programming strengths and needs are identified. Best practice strategies, evidence-based practices, and resources for areas of need are shared.

Language difficulties across all areas; phonology, semantics, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and orthography contribute to academic difficulties and behavioral concerns for students of all disability groups, yet teacher preparation programs tend to be limited to only one course offering that covers language characteristics and instruction for the classroom. With 20+ years as a Speech & Language Pathologist, I will support educators' understanding of the basic characteristics of language and provide strategies to implement using the UDL framework that can support all struggling learners.

This session is designed to inform educators about the importance of social skill instruction within the general education setting at the secondary level. This session will provide action steps educators can use immediately to embed social skills instruction into their daily content area curriculum.

IEP/BIP goals are often "cookie cutter". This presentation will review strategies for creating meaningful goals, touching on progress monitoring systems and mastery criteria.