The Arc Minnesota has a video series on the topic of people with disabilities in the workplace. This video, Employing People with Disabilities: Workplace Culture, discusses how securing skilled, talented and qualified people with disabilities can impact your company’s competitive advantage and workplace morale. This video will offer some tips to help you create a […]
ASHA Wire Journal: Caregiver-Implemented Communication Interventions for Children Identified as Having Language Impairment 0 Through 48 Months of Age: A Scoping Review by Lizbeth H. Finestack, Marianne Elmquist, Kirstin Kuchler, Andrea Boh Ford, and Betul Cakir-Dilek,
The Brain Injury Association of America has a variety of free experience- based webinars created to help survivors navigate life after brain injury. Webinars span the years 2014 to 2024, with the newest posted in April 2024. Check out the webinars available by clicking here.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has a free resource to promote emotional health and prevent suicide. This resource is intended to be used in senior centers and is the Spanish version. To access this toolkit, click here.
This brief resource looks at the number of people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities known to state agencies versus the number of people who actually receive services.
The National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) has released a guide for teachers to help families learn how to identify emotions with their young children. This resource includes some helpful tips about family engagement around the topic of emotions and steps to identify/label/model emotions with their young children.
The Center on PBIS has released a guide about how K-12 teachers can talk to their students about race, with a variety of lessons plans and resources. The intent of this guide is to facilitate conversations about race in K-12 classrooms to support student voice and enable self-reflection. It can be used by school- or […]
The U.S. Department of Education has released a report that describes how to support children with disabilities utilizing a positive, proactive approach to discipline. This approach is intended to address disproportionality in exclusionary discipline for children from racially or ethnically minoritized backgrounds and teach staff to more effectively use positive behavioral supports.
This research article, accessible through the National Library of Medicine, is a randomized study that examines the effectiveness of wrap-around supports vs. intensive case management for youth with emotional or behavioral disorders. Results indicate that intensive case management may be equally effective as wrap-around supports when wrap-around supports are implemented poorly, especially for youth with […]
