Audience: Educators, administrators, families, self-advocates, and service providers. These trainings focus on supporting students of all ability levels, including those with extensive support needs from middle school through post-secondary. Session 1: Community Partnership and Collaboration to Support Person-Driven Planning (PDP) Overview: Understand best practices of PDP to support implementation in various settings Watch a live […]

Panelists will discuss how to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for autistic individuals in the workplace. They will share their personal experiences, which include being an employer or business leader, autistic employee, manager of neurodivergent employees, and collectively, advocates for neurodivergent peers. Through these perspectives, audience members will learn how to better support autistic […]

Scarlett VonThenen, Manager II at State Council on Developmental Disabilities will coach you through Social Security Work Incentives that can help you keep your benefits while finding employment. Training objectives: Definition of disability according to SSA SSI work incentives Title II work incentives RSVP Now About the Speaker Scarlett K. vonThenen has worked at the […]

Audience: Educators, administrators, families, self-advocates, and service providers. These trainings focus on supporting students of all ability levels, including those with extensive support needs from middle school through post-secondary. Session 2: PDP Leading to Successful Post-Secondary Education and Career Pathways Overview: Focus on middle school to post-secondary Discuss alternative pathways to a diploma Plan for […]

Studies show that early intervention enhances learning, communication and social skills, giving autistic children like Beatrix the opportunity for improved lifelong outcomes. That's ...LIFELONG. We need your help more than ever to ensure all autistic children receive autism screening and interventions as early as possible. Over the past three years alone, more than 1 million […]