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Monday, 11-4-2024

8:30am-12:00pm

Promoting Self-Determination Through Improved Social Communication for Individuals with Autism: An Introduction

Hosted with the Lakeside Regional Consulting Network, participants will be provided with an overview of self-determination components and how social communication is embedded; the universal impact of social communication skills and research-based practices for teaching and reinforcing skills; resources for assessing, teaching and supporting social communication and self-determination skills. Presenter: Stacie Rulison.

Monday, 2-4-2025

8:30am-3:30pm

Navigating Sexuality and Internet Safety for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disabilities

Hosted with the Lakeside Regional Consulting Network, participants will learn how to support students with disabilities as they become young adults with a healthy interest in sex. Access to the Internet adds a safety component that must be considered when working with students who have autism and/or intellectual disabilities. Presenter: Lynda Gellar.

Monday, 3-3-2025

8:30am-3:30pm

Whiteboard IEPs and Transition Planning

A Whiteboard IEP is a facilitated Individualized Education Program process that provides an authentic focus on a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). The process includes the use of a whiteboard or chart paper as the key focus in the meeting and the IEP document as a note-taking tool. Students play a central role in the process and become the lead in transition planning for their own futures. Presenter: Kelly Rogers.

Zoom Transition Series

Mondays, 12:30-1:30

Learn about various agencies and services that support people with disabilities after completing high school/post-secondary programming. Join some or all Zoom meetings.

Remaining Sessions:

November 11, 2024: Macomb Academy, Rising Stars

December 9, 2024: New Horizons Rehabilitation Services, Services to Enhance Potential (STEP)

January 27, 2025: Gesher Human Resources (formerly Jewish Vocational Services)

February 17, 2025: Easterseals MORC, All-Ways Care Services, Inc.

March 17, 2025: The Arc

April 28, 2025: TBD

Remaining 2024-25 Parent Seminars

Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 6:30 pm

Social Security & Employment

Presented by Jennifer Vandermark of The Arc and Samantha Walters of Michigan Rehabilitation Services

Monday, February 3, 2025, 7:00 pm

Hosted with the Macomb Parent Advisory Committee

Navigating Sexuality and Internet Safety for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Intellectual Disabilities

Presented by Lynda Gellar, Ph.D.

Parents/Guardians must register no later than 1 week in advance.

To register online:

events.misd.net

Select COURSE OFFERINGS

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Click SPECIAL NEEDS

Select TRANSITION from dropdown

Select course

If you need assistance with registering, please contact Jamie Wallace at 228-3527.

Seminars are held at Macomb Intermediate School District,

44001 Garfield Rd., Clinton Twp. 48038

If you represent a community agency that supports people with disabilities or serve as a transition coordinator or a secondary special education administrator for a school district in Macomb County, these meetings are for you. We plan professional development, parent seminars, and learn from one another how to improve our transition practices in the field of special education.

We meet from 12:30-2:30pm in room 206 at 44001 Garfield Rd., Clinton Township 48038 on the following remaining dates:

January 15, 2025

April 17, 2025

May 29, 2025

Registration is not required. Email dmakar@misd.net if you have questions.

YouthBuild is a community-based pre-apprenticeship program that provides job training and educational services for opportunity youth ages 16-24 who left school without a secondary diploma.

Participants learn vocational skills in construction, as well as in other in-demand industries that include healthcare, information technology, and hospitality. Participants also provide community service through the required construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing for low-income or homeless families in their own neighborhoods. Participants split their time between the vocational training work site and the classroom, where they earn their high school diploma or equivalency, learn to be community leaders, and prepare for postsecondary training opportunities, including college, apprenticeships, and employment. Supportive services address barriers throughout participation and the 12-month follow-up period, and may include transportation assistance, childcare, healthcare referrals, and the provision of work attire and personal protective equipment.

Nationally and statewide, students with disabilities have a higher dropout rate than their peers without disabilities. The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities originally developed a set of Excel-based data tools to help districts and schools organize, examine, analyze, and share their data that impact graduation and dropout rates.

These tools continue to be updated and NTACT:C provides technical assistance for use of them. Guidance in using these tools can support a school team’s work carrying out a root cause analysis of the factors that impact school completion rates. They can also inform the development and evaluation of a local intervention plan.