Conference Program - Exceptional Children - Public Schools of ...

90. Transition Considerations for School-AgedLearners with Deaf-BlindnessRoom: AugustaPresenter(s): Susan Bashinski, East Carolina UniversityTransitions for any learner can be challenging. Transitionsare, most typically, especially challenging for a learner withdeaf-blindness (DB). This session will address the primaryconsiderations that should be made to facilitate a smoothtransition for a learner with DB from class to class, year toyear, or building to building.Presentation Level: Basic/Intermediate91. The Language of Math andConcept Development for Deaf/Hardof Hearing StudentsRoom: Colony APresenter(s): Carol Gillespie & Alicia Cope, CumberlandCounty SchoolsThe presenters will share information and ideas relatedto teaching math concepts and skills with a focus onlanguage development for students who are deaf/hard ofhearing. Activities will include those related to vocabularydevelopment, understanding of math language structures,and the language of problem solving.Presentation Level: All94. Data Notebooks are for EC Teachers Too!Room: Auditorium IPresenter(s): Beth Berry & Susan Hollar,Catawba County SchoolsThe data notebook will help you maintain all of the data thatyou collect on each student, especially as it relates to theIEP goals. The student also has an active role in adding data.Students will take their notebook home, in order to sharewith their family their progress.Presentation Level: All95. Responsiveness to Instruction (RtI) UpdateRoom: Guilford DPresenter(s): Amy Jablonski & Anne Nixon, NCDPIParticipants will hear an update on Responsiveness toInstruction (RtI) implementation in North Carolina. Includedin this presentation will be the use of ImplementationScience with this initiative and current state level supportand structure from the Department of Public Instruction.Participants will also have an opportunity to ask questionsregarding implementation of RtI.Presentation Level: intermediate92. Autism 101Room: Victoria ABCPresenter(s): Christie Lockhart, Cumberland County SchoolsThis session will address the needs of the teacher whois new to the world of Autism. Specific strategies will bepresented to address academic, communication and otherneeds of the child on the autism spectrum.Presentation Level: Basic93. MEville to WEville FunctionalLiteracy StrategiesRoom: Auditorium IIPresenter(s): Cynthia Hall, Winston-Salem/Forsyth CountySchools & Teresa Little, UNC GreensboroWinston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools are implementingMEville to WEville, a researched-based literacy programfor students with significant disabilities in kindergartenthrough high school. This session will provide strategies forimplementing activities which address a continuum of servicesfrom elementary, middle, to high school. Also, the session willinclude videotaped examples and a “make and take”.Presentation Level: intermediateLeading change: improving outcomes 25