SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
April 25th, 2025 - 9:00 am
Presenter(s)
Intended Audience
Narrative skills are essential to both social and academic development, but these important skills are often overlooked for students who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), particularly when students are at the beginning stages of language development and device use. How can we support the development of these crucial skills in storytellers who use AAC? This session examines the importance and assessment of narrative skills for these students. Finally, we explore evidence-based interventions to support the telling of both personal and fictional narratives from the beginning levels of storytelling to development of episodic stories.
Participants Will
SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
April 25th, 2025 - 9:00 am
Presenter(s)
Intended Audience
Narrative skills are essential to both social and academic development, but these important skills are often overlooked for students who require augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), particularly when students are at the beginning stages of language development and device use. How can we support the development of these crucial skills in storytellers who use AAC? This session examines the importance and assessment of narrative skills for these students. Finally, we explore evidence-based interventions to support the telling of both personal and fictional narratives from the beginning levels of storytelling to development of episodic stories.
Participants Will
Virtual
April 29th, 2025 - 12:30 pm
Presenter(s)
Intended Audience
Sessions
George is having a hard time making friends. In conversations, he sometimes interrupts or changes the topic abruptly. He doesn't pick up on nonverbal cues and often misinterprets his classmates' intentions or feelings. In the classroom, he struggles to follow rules. He always seems to be in trouble. His classmates sometimes tease him. As part of an interprofessional team we are often asked to evaluate and intervene with students who, like George, struggle with social communication. This training will address what social communication is, how we assess it and evidence-based strategies for intervening. The training will focus on students who are in late elementary through high school.
Participants Will
A Certificate of Completion is available for virtual trainings, in-person trainings, Special Training Opportunities and Technical Assistance Projects. This may be used to document professional development hours or applied towards the credential requirements for Education Specialist Level II non-university activities.
Virtual
April 30th, 2025 - 2:30 pm
Virtual
May 7th, 2025 - 3:30 pm
Welcome to the final session of our virtual training series! Throughout this journey, Sheri Roberge, aka ‘Ace of SEIS,’ and John Fischer, aka ‘FAPE Guy,’ have walked you through creating effective, legal, and error-free IEPs, one page at a time. Now, it's time to wrap things up with a Q&A session—no specific page to cover, just a chance for you to ask all your burning questions! This is the last training in the series, so let's make it a great one!
SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual
May 21st, 2025 - 9:00 am
SCOE: 5340 Skylane Boulevard, Santa Rosa, CA 95403 or Virtual
June 17th, 2025 - 9:00 am