COMMUNICATION
Communication can be hard - Not all of us are able to express ourselves clearly to get positive outcomes for our children.
Own it! Overcome it! Get help!
It's about your child - not you!
There are many resources and community supports - from Friends and Family to local Family Resource Centers and state wide advocacy and education resources.
See the "Resource" tab on this web site.
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Creating Agreement DPI Web page – http://www.dpi.wi.gov/sped/agreement.html
Disability Etiquette: Engaging people with disabilities - http://www.tndisability.org/system/files/u1/Disability_Etiquette.pdf
https://air-org.adobeconnect.com/_a1109407675/p80kuirdetv/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal
Partnerships Webinar: Moving Beyond Open House
Building Meaningful Relationships Between Parents and Schools,” is available at
http://safesupportiveschools.ed.gov/index.php?id=9&eid=1760.
The Webinar, sponsored by the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning
Environments with support from the U.S. Department of Education, highlighted the importance of and effective
strategies for engaging parents with schools, including families and students who are struggling.
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Positive Partnership Practices
Get the Word Out to All Families, Not Just Meeting Attendees
In many schools, parents who can’t get to a school meeting never hear what happened. In its 2010 School Update, NNPS reported that 27% of schools said they fail to get information from workshops and meetings to families who couldn’t attend.
What are some ways for schools to get “a bigger bang for their buck” by getting the message out to many more families than were able to attend a gathering? A few ideas follow:
· Ask a student, parent, staff member or Partnership Action Team member to attend the meeting and take notes.
· Summarize major points in easy-to-read dot point format. Be sure to mention any “next steps,” or recommendations for action.
· Publish the summary in the school newsletter, on the school website, in parent group notes or blogs and other venues.
· Record a brief message for the school telephone line so callers hear the information.
· Ask the local newspaper to send a reporter to the meeting or to feature the dot point summary in space reserved for school news.
· Ask the local cable TV channel to tape and air the session.
· Post meeting summaries in places where parents gather, such as at school doorways, or ask volunteers to hand out meeting results to parents as they drop off or pick up students.
· Translate proceedings in families’ languages.
· Invite families to offer their comments, ideas, and questions either via e-mail, strategically-placed suggestion boxes, or by phone.
Investing a little time and energy in providing families who couldn’t attend a meeting with a chance to hear about good parenting practices or new school issues will go a long way to increasing the engagement of all families in your school.
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The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge, FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina has information about effective communication practices that can be used to promote collaboration with professionals and families in early care and education, and intervention settings. (The Module can also be accessed through the CADRE website.)
http://community.fpg.unc.edu/connect-modules/learners/module-3
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Family Voices http://www.fvofwi.org/factsheets.html
We support families by providing information, training and leadership opportunities so that families
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CORE of a Good Life: Guided Conversations with Parents on Raising Young Children with Disabilities is a resource from the University of Wisconsin s Waisman Center, giving parents guidance from the experiences of other parents on raising young children with disabilities by drawing on the CORE : Community (connections and participation), Opportunities (to explore and pursue interests), Reciprocity (in relationships), and Enjoyment (in our lives. Available in pdf (29.8 MB, 64 pp).
http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/naturalsupports/pdfs/CORE_Guide.pdf
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Care Notebook has multiple uses. A major role of this notebook is to help parents/caregivers maintain an ongoing record of their child's care, services, providers, and notes. This notebook is a great tool in empowering families to become the experts on their child's care. It is also a way to maintain the lines of communication between the many providers and services that help care for a child and their family
http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/for_families/care_notebook/
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Please also see the "Education Tab"
Communication Clinics
UWSP Communicative Disorders Program
Work: 715-346-3667 (Kaye at front desk)
Fax: 715-346-4835
Work Address:
2100 Main Street
Stevens Point, WI 54481
Waisman Center Communication Aids and Systems Clinic (CASC)
1500 Highland Ave.Room 327
Madison, WI 53705-2280
(608) 262-3039
Fax: (608) 265-9851
State of WI Department of Health and Family Services – Office for the Deaf and hard of hearing… 715- 842-7693
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When things get difficult
The Wisconsin Special Education Mediation System (WSEMS) has been helping parents and schools resolve disputes about special education since 1996. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (WDPI) contracts with the WSEMS to implement this statewide special education mediation system.
http://www.wsems.us/about.htm
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CADRE (National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education) resources for dispute resolution in special education and early intervention.
http://www.directionservice.org/cadre/
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School - Family Communication
Parent Involvement for School Personnel
This site is designed to help teachers and administrators evaluate their parent
involvement by sharing checklists and examples of best practices in six categories of involvement. http://www.projectappleseed.org/chklst.html
Organizing Your Concerns about School-Related Problems Worksheet -http://www.ncld.org/publications-a-more/checklists-worksheets-a-forms/organizing-your-concerns-about-school-related-problems-worksheet
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Parent-Teacher Conference Tip Sheets in English and Spanish (October 2010) (Tip Sheets) http://tinyurl.com/46ul66n The Harvard Family Research Project
Face-to-face interactions between parents and teachers are the cornerstone of school family engagement efforts. The tip sheets provide key strategies for parents and teachers to come to conferences informed and prepared, to ensure the most successful outcomes; and a tip sheet for school principals outlines how school administrators can support parents and teachers to that end. http://tinyurl.com/46ul66n
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University of Illinois offers information and strategies for why and how parents can work with schools to ensure success in school. Topics include dealing with stress at school, learning styles, test taking and more. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/succeed/parental.cfm
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Edutopria s Home-to-School Connections Guide: Tips, Tech Tools, and Strategies for Improving Family-to-School Communication (2010) (Resource Guide)
The George Lucas Education Foundation/Edutopia s Home-to-School Connections Guide: Tips, Tech Tools, and Strategies for Improving Family-to-School Communication is a classroom resource guide for teachers, parents, and district administrators highlighting new solutions for connecting home and school in order to improve student learning and success, and to strengthen the bonds between schools, families, and communities.
http://www.edutopia.org/home-to-school-connections-guide
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Is putting together Picture symbols books overwhelming for you? Check out!
Do To Learn - Communication and emotion examples, songs, math and other activities for children are available at http://www.do2learn.com/.
Speech & Language Delays?
Communication Tools For Teaching A Child with Autism, Aspergers, PDD-NOS, Speech & Language Delays that We've Seen.
Picture cards in squence:
In the home
Question - What and How
Abstract Categories
Conversation Starters
Things I like to do.
Social Stories books - Now I get it!
Or call 1-866-9AUTISM (1-866-928-8476) to get your copy today!
Autism Today™
[email protected]
Please e-mail or phone us if we can be of assistance
Amazon.com. Had all of the items so if someone didn't want all six they could get one or two or more. They were basically the same price, around $98. Worth them checking it out online and reading the reviews. Some of them were rated really good or didn't have reviews at all.
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Check Amazon.com
Also know that:Mc McMillan Library in Wisconsin Rapids -has a picture making program that families can check and make their own stories/schedules)
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