Work Incentives Planning and Assistance-Taking the next step on your Employment Journey!
Wendy Koss-Partridge
This presentation will introduce Social Security Work Incentives, options available to maintain healthcare while working (Medicare and Medicaid)
Lifelong Learning Consulting
Denise Cavadias
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/lifelong-learning.mp3 Providing continuing education alternatives for students with special needs. We are private fee based consulting group, which assist in facilitating the movement of students with special needs to a supportive post high school program.
Creating a Financial Blueprint for Autism
Greg Zibricky
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/financial-blueprint.mp3 A real-life, step-by-step guide to help families living with Autism navigate the future. Greg uses practical knowledge based on his own son’s diagnosis in 1996. Raising a child with autism presents extraordinary circumstances that require specific attention in order to design a plan that exclusively suits each family. Look back at the Zibricky Family’s […]
Transition it starts early and is an ongoing process
Colleen Harmon
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/lifelong-learning.mp3 This webinar will focus on a wide variety of topics and issues related to transition. Many different aspects of transition are examined from a variety of different vantage points and perspectives. Transition planning is a life-long process but critical during the secondary years to insure that appropriate annual goals and IEP services are developed […]
Autistry Studios – building a working ASD community
Janet Lawson and Dan Swearingen
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/autistry.mp3 Janet Lawson and Dan Swearingen, founders of Autistry Studios and the parents of an autistic teenager will discuss their journey creating a program to support ASD individuals. Over the last 6 years they have grown their therapeutic pre-vocational program from 4 students to over 50 students. They have created a new approach they call […]
Building a Support Community for Interdependence and Growth
Brian King
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3mfa//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/building-community.mp3 How to build a strategy for Interdependence and Growth. More…
Autism, Independence and the Law
Nathan DeCorpo
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/autism-law.mp3 Nathan is a lawyer who will cover the basics of special needs in regards to finances, marriage, credit cards, and other financial and residential issues for adults on the spectrum.
Social Entrepreneurism in the Community
Van Hatchell
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/social-entrep.mp3 How a group of parents were able to tap social entrepreneurs to create an organization to employ 40 individuals with developmental disabilities.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2014/mp3s/preparing-transition.mp3 The transition out of school district services to adult services is a challenge for both the young adults and the parents. This presentation, based on Chantal and Jeremy Sicile-Kira’s book A Full Life with Autism, explains how parents and educators can best prepare themselves and their young adult for this important life change. Topics […]
Should I Consider Therapeutic Horseback Riding For My Child?
Alicia Kershaw
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com//conferences201x/2013/mp3/horseback.mp3 Alicia Kershaw, Executive Director of GallopNYC, a therapeutic horseback riding program in NYC.