Low Incidence Disabilities Workshops & Webinars

4/5/22 - Meet the Experts - TVI/COMS Hear from vision professionals about their role in working with students with visual impairments (9 am - 10 am virtual session)

4/8/22 - Active Learning Supervisors Roundtable Network with others overseeing educators using Lilli Nielsen's Active Learning approach for students (9 am - 11 am onsite session)

5/3/22 - Using Routines for Instruction (12 pm - 3 pm virtual and onsite sessions)

5/16/22 - Active Learning Book Study In this session we will be looking through Lilli Nielsen's book Early Learning Step by Step. (12 pm - 3 pm virtual and onsite sessions)

Visually Impaired/Orientation & Mobility Services Workshops & Webinars

Literacy for Littles series: 1/26, 2/23, 3/24, 4/21, & 5/19. Check out this Smore for more information

4/19/22 - ECC Event at Camp Wisdom Come to this event with your students with visual impairments to learn strategies to work on the expanded core curriculum in environments outside of the classroom (9 am - 2 pm on location at the camp)

Assistive Technology

4/28/22 - Seriously Wild About A.T. (SWAT) Roundtable Group (9 am-12 pm onsite session)

5/24/22 - Assistive Technology Solutions in Minutes Dr. Willkomm will show participants how to use everyday materials to create assistive technology materials. (8:30 am - 3:30 pm onsite session)

The Texas Complex Access Network, or TX CAN, believes in presuming competence and finding the most appropriate supports to provide connection, access, and increased opportunities for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

TX CAN helps you by keeping abreast of the literature in the field of educating students with complex access needs. Research Summaries include classical and recent publications related to effective and promising educational practices for students with significant cognitive disabilities.

To dive deeper into the best practices to facilitate learning for students with the most complex access needs, TX CAN’s Building a Foundation online course covers the five Quality Indicators of Effective Practices for working with students with significant cognitive disabilities and aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices. This self-paced online course offers 18 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) hours!

TX CAN is constantly developing new resources to grow your professional toolkit! Visit txcan.tea.texas.gov to stay on top of new research and best practices, or reach out to me, your regional TX CAN contact, for support!

After completing the A Step Towards IEP Quality and Rigor course from the Texas Complex Access Network or any of Active Learning Online courses from ActiveLearningSpace.org, teachers in the Region 10 ESC area can request coaching. Please fill out the form below if you would like more information:

A Step Towards IEP Quality and Rigor coaching or Active Learning Coaching

Baylor University is recruiting adolescents and adults to participate in a study evaluating the effectiveness of vocational skills instruction delivered via videoconferencing technology (e.g., Zoom). To participate in this study, participants must be 13 years or older and have a diagnosis of an intellectual or developmental disability.

There will be meetings via videoconference with each participant for 1-2 visits per week for up to 8 weeks to teach vocational skills. Participants can participate from any location they choose; they do not need to visit Baylor’s campus to participate. If needed, necessary technology can be provided. There is no charge for participating in this program.

For more information contact Vocational_support@baylor.edu.

Special Populations

Region 10 Education Service Center

Email: cathryn.king@region10.org
Website: https://www.region10.org/programs/low-incidence-disabilities-lid/overview/
Location: 904 Abrams Road, Richardson, TX, USA
Phone: 972-348-1590