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Seminar Overview
Family-Centered Services: Sending Families Forward Engaged, Equipped, and Empowered
This seminar meets the requirements for Early Intervention content area E03 (Family-centered services and supports) and is approved coursework for Ohio Developmental Specialist certification. Topics covered in this Seminar include:
- Cultural considerations
- Effects of parents, siblings, extended family, environment, and caregivers on a child with special needs and the child’s impact on the family
- Family/professional relationships
- Using adult learning principles to strengthen parent competence and confidence by recognizing and building upon existing strengths and capacities
- Family empowerment/decision-making
- Explaining parent rights
- Helping families use natural learning opportunities to enhance development
- Family/professional partnerships that are respectful of cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic diversity
- Identifying and accessing informal and formal family support systems to help achieve outcomes
- Family-Directed Assessment process
- Caregiver-child interactions (parent responsiveness)
- Societal attitudes toward disabilities and their impact on the family
Seminar Developers: Laura L. Maddox, Ph.D., BCBA, COBA and Jen Bavry, B.S.
Estimated Time to Complete: 30 hours
Cost: $50
To pay with a purchase order, please, contact cycseminars@ocali.org
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