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Course Length: 14 hour/s (2 day)

Course Cost:  $325.00 per person  

Course Description: This course is designed to provide all Head Start disability staff with the skills and knowledge needed to plan and implement integrated services for children with disabilities and their families.  Students will find the resources in this course useful in understanding their program's children with disability and learning ways to support them.  Students will be given resources to promote interagency collaboration, support staff training and development, and assist programs in establishing recruitment and enrollment plans to reach out to children with disabilities. Participants will learn how to take a critical look at their program's disabilities services and teams that have considerable experiences and develop a broader view of roles and set more collaborative and coordinated way of working with each other, with LEAs and with other community agencies.  Topics covered will be:

• Accessibility

• Disabilities Service Plans

• Health and Safety

• Individualization

• Interagency Collaboration

• Recruitment and Enrollment
• Screening, Evaluation and Assessment
• Staff Support and Supervision
• Supporting Families
• Transition

 

For more information, e-mail Stephanie at smartin@hsuniversity.org  or call (901) 758-4034. To register by phone at 1-888-282-7817.