Fall 2009 Workshops in Orlando
AHEAD’s Center for Professional Development
with Florida AHEAD
Present
Fall 2009 Workshops in Orlando, Florida, USA
Disability Topics in Higher Education
Timely Training Opportunities Designed Just for You!
November 6 & 7, 2009 in Orlando, Florida.
Choose from:
Constructing A New Framework: Evolving the Service Delivery Paradigm
Or
Transforming our Campuses to Work with Students with Asperger Syndrome
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Program Descriptions
Workshop #1 - Constructing A New Framework: Evolving the Service Delivery Paradigm
Many of us are engaging in strategic planning, reconsidering our policies and procedures and conducting program assessment activities. Catalysts for this renewed focus on program evolution include the passage of the ADA Amendments Act, the budget implications of the current economic crisis and the emergence of new directions in service delivery, such as social justice models and universal design. More and more often, we observe that: “If we do the right thing, compliance will take care of itself.”
Our profession has reached a maturity that provides us with the opportunity to move toward the social justice model of access that is at the roots, if not the practice, of the law. Rather than focusing primarily on legal mandates, we are beginning to construct new frameworks that facilitate systemic institutional change and encourage the development of a campus culture that promotes seamless access. The ADAAA and emerging models of service delivery offer new approaches to documentation, institutional collaboration, and outreach.
Leslie Kanes Weisman has observed that, “As social movements mature, they begin to look beyond the ‘letter of the law’, which emphasizes ethics and values, and promulgate systemic changes in attitudes, behaviors and institutional structures.” Disability Services in higher education has arrived at the point where we must consider not only legal mandates but social and philosophic structures. Join us as we address substantive issues of inclusion, including:
- The role of personal narrative in the documentation process;
- The subtle messages about disability that are often contained in our processes;
- Determining accommodations in a universal design context;
- Striking a new balance between case manager and change agent;
- The role of universal design as a compliance tool;
- Leading the campus community in designing usable, equitable, inclusive and sustainable campus environments that are also compliant.
Presenters:
Carol Funckes, University of Arizona
L. Scott Lissner, The Ohio State University
Workshop #2 - Transforming Your Campus to Prepare for Students with Asperger’s and other Autism Spectrum Disorders
“Students with AS are often very advanced in terms of intelligence and academic ability. Yet these intellectually brilliant students struggle in the realm of higher education. Despite intellectual and academic gifts, persons with AS have a decreased ability to decipher the intentions and actions of others, to integrate many streams of incoming information, and to navigate an increasingly complex social world. They may be rigid and perfectionistic and resist changing to meet the demands of their environment. Students with AS are often naïve and can be easily victimized by others. As college students, they are challenged by deficits in social and interpersonal skills, organization, and self-advocacy. Yet these are the very skills that are essential for success in college and beyond (Wolf, Thierfeld Brown, 2007).
Students with AS will continue to enter college in increasing numbers. While their needs differ from other populations seen by disabilities services professionals and administrators, the college environment can be uniquely equipped to help these students gain their independence and become functional, gainfully employed adults. That said, most professionals and staff who will interact with students with AS know little about the syndrome. A bit of education and training can go a long way to helping students have a successful college experience. To that end, we have written this book, geared towards college administrators and disability services professionals but also providing much needed information to faculty, medical professionals, secondary school special educators, families, and students themselves”(Lorraine E. Wolf, Jane Thierfeld Brown, Ruth Bork (2009). Students with Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for College Personnel. Autism Asperger’s Publishing Company, Shawnee Mission, KS, reprinted with permission)
This workshop is designed to provide participants with a model for educating stakeholders and introducing change to their campus in order to provide the support and integration necessary for students with Asperger and other autism spectrum disorders to be successful. We will use didactic and hands-on information for improving service delivery across multiple settings. An introduction to clinical characteristics of this group of disorders and how to recognize symptoms in students begins our session. We follow with a review of areas of difficulty commonly faced on in academic, residential and co-curricular domains on campus. Examples include models of social programming on campus, residence life training, and guidelines for deciding academic and other accommodations. Information for faculty, police, student health and counseling services, and transition planning for incoming freshman will be provided. This will truly be a working session, with case materials and problem solving exercises for each module.
Presenters:
Lorraine E. Wolf, Ph.D.
Jane Thierfeld Brown, Ed.D.
Faculty
Jane Thierfeld Brown
Dr. Jane Thierfeld Brown is an educator/counselor who has spearheaded disability
support programs across the northeast. She is the Director of Student Services
at the University of Connecticut School of Law and Advisor to the new support
program for students with Asperger’s at main campus of the University
of Connecticut in Storrs. She serves on the transition committee for the
State of Connecticut, is Co-Director of College Autism Spectrum and also
consults to families transitioning their young adults to college. She is
coauthor of Asperger Syndrome in Higher Education: A Guide for College Personnel
(Autism Asperger’s Publishing Company, Shawnee Mission, KS).
Carol Funckes
Associate Director at the University of Arizona's Disability Resource Center,
Ms. Funckes is Past President of the Association on Higher Education and Disability
(AHEAD). With 20 plus years in disability services, she assisted in the development
of the AHEAD Universal Design Initiative where members work to re-frame disability,
redesign disability services and infuse universal design concepts in post-secondary
campuses.
L. Scott Lissner
The ADA Coordinator for the Ohio State University and Fellow of the John Glenn
Institute of Public policy and Public Service, Mr. Lissner is responsible
for disability related compliance and policy. He is an active member of the
AHEAD Board of Directors and serves as the liaison to AHEAD’s Universal
Design Initiative.
Lorraine Wolf
Dr. Lorraine Wolf is a neuropsychologist specializing in neuropsychiatric and
neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adults. She is the Director
of Disability Services at Boston University, where she holds faculty appointments
in psychiatry and rehabilitation sciences. She is a co-editor of Adult Attention
Deficit Disorder: Brain Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (2001, New York Academy
of Sciences, NY) senior co-editor of Adult Learning Disorders: Contemporary
Issues (2009, Psychology Press, NY) and coauthor of Asperger Syndrome in
Higher Education: A Guide for College Personnel (Autism Asperger’s
Publishing Company, Shawnee Mission, KS).
Workshop Schedule
| Thursday November 5, 2009 |
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| 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Registration open & “Meet & Greet” |
| Friday November 6, 2009 |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am |
Registration open, continental breakfast provided |
| 9:00 am – 5:30 pm |
Sessions |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Break (refreshments provided) |
| 12:30 – 1:45 |
Lunch on your own |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | Break (refreshments provided) |
| Saturday, November 7, 2009 | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 am |
Continental breakfast provided |
| 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | Sessions |
Host Hotel Information
All events associated with the AHEAD 2009 Fall Workshops will be housed onsite at the Hilton Garden Inn and the Homewood Suites – Lake Buena Vista. AHEAD has negotiated deeply discounted sleeping room rates for workshop attendees. Please be sure to make your hotel reservations by the cut-off dates listed in order to secure the discounted room rates. (These two hotels are side-by-side, essentially forming one destination while offering a variety of accommodations and amenities. AHEAD Registrants are welcome to stay at either property depending on preference, and will find both to be very convenient for the workshops being held there.)
Homewood Suites by Hilton – Lake Buena Vista
11428 Marbella Palm Court
Orlando, FL, USA 32836
Tel: +1-407-239-4540
Room Rate for all-suite hotel: $129.00/night + applicable taxes for single
or double occupancy.
Reservations must be made by October 16, 2009.
Hilton Garden Inn – Lake Buena Vista
11400 Marbella Palm Ct.,
Orlando, FL, USA 32836
Tel: +1-407-239-9550
Room Rate: $105.00/night + applicable taxes for single or double occupancy.
Reservations must be made by October 16, 2009.
Please make your hotel reservations by calling the hotel of your choice directly, and asking for the AHEAD Group Rate.
Important Note: If you have specific disability-related requirements with regard to your hotel room accommodations, please ensure that you communicate and confirm them clearly and concisely with the hotel at the time you make your reservation. It is also advisable to reconfirm your arrangements 48 hours in advance of your arrival.
For your comfort and convenience
AHEAD requests that attendees at AHEAD functions consider the needs of their colleagues who have severe allergies or environmental related illnesses by curtailing the use of scented personal products and respecting that all AHEAD events and the facilities in which they are housed are smoke-free.
This workshop will offer an intensive, interactive professional development opportunity. Please dress comfortably. Business casual dress is completely appropriate, and you may want to bring along a light sweater just in case the inside temperatures are chillier than you prefer.
Registration
Registration is available by Mail or FAX.
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Registration is also available online by selecting this link.
We look forward to seeing you in Orlando!
