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KEEPING YOU INFORMED
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At ASK Resource Center, we feel it's important to keep parents and professionals informed. We regularly receive information that we think you will find pertinent,
so we're passing it along in this email!
Over the next month, Keeping You Informed will be sent out on a weekly basis due to the increased amount of information we have received since the start of the 2014-15 school year.
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This issue includes:
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Senator Harkin Receives Outstanding Leadership Award
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Back to School Tips in Latest Issue of Each and Every Child
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Integrated Health Homes Survey
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AIM Center Webinar
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Register Now for NAMI Basics - Class begins October 6th!
- Camp High Hopes Offers Fall 2014 Weekend Programs
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Courage League Sports Announces Fall Programming
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Parents of Children with ASD Wanted for Online Study
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Protection and Advocacy for Social Security Beneficiaries with Disabilities Who Want to Return to Work
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Decoding Dyslexia Launches New Website
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Senator Harkin Receives Outstanding Leadership Award
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Senator Tom Harkin received the Outstanding Leadership Award at a social event following the Harkin Americans with Disabilities Act Roundtable on July 25. The award was presented by Michele Meadors, Ms. Wheelchair Iowa 2014, on behalf of Iowa's disability and aging community. ASK Resource Center, along with 47 other disability and aging organizations across Iowa signed on to the award.
The event was put on by the Harkin Institute at Drake University in Des Moines. According to Dawn Francis, one of the organizers of the event, "it was a great event, and Senator Harkin was very touched to receive the award." It is believed that the award will be permanently displayed in the ADA display area of the Harkin Institute.
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Back to School Tips in Latest Issue of
Each and Every Child
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As you know, heading back to school can be challenging. In the latest issue of the Iowa Department of Education's e-newsletter, Each and Every Child, you will read about a family that has taken back-to-school efforts to a level that works well for their son. The newsletter also gives some helpful tips to ease the back-to-school transition.
Click here for newsletter
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Integrated Health Homes Survey
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As an effort of the Iowa Olmstead Consumer Taskforce in collaboration with other advocacy groups, Disability Rights Iowa is reaching out and collecting information to reflect both the positive experiences and difficulties Iowans are facing with Health and Human Service systems change. With this information, they plan to continue to advocate for increased access to needed services. The brief survey contains questions regarding Iowa's Health and Human Service System changes with Integrated Health Homes. Survey participants can be a person with a disability, a family member, caregiver, friend or professional.
Click here for survey
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Register Now for Free AIM Center Webinar
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The AIM Center is offering an interactive webinar about ways to develop and use accessible instructional materials to make a difference in a student's educational experience. Every webinar offered by The AIM Center is free of charge and open to anyone!
Making a Measurable Difference with Accessible Instructional Materials
Tuesday, September 16
2:00-3:00 PM, CST
Click here to register
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Register Now for NAMI Basics
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NAMI Greater Des Moines, the local organization of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is offering their NAMI Basics education program for parents and caregivers of children and adolescents with emotional or behavioral difficulties.
When: Every Monday, October 6 - November 10
Time: 5:45 - 8:15 pm
Where: ASK Resource Center
5665 Greendale Rd, Suite D, Johnston, IA 50131
Click here for flyer Click here to register
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Camp High Hopes Offers Fall 2014 Weekend Programs
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Register now for Camp High Hopes Fall 2014 weekend programs available for youth and adults! Camp High Hopes offers camp sessions focused on providing a fun, safe, adaptive recreational environment for people with disabilities, their friends, and families. Fall sessions will be offered September through December.
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Courage League Sports Offering New Fall Programming
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Parents of Children with ASD Wanted for Online Study
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A Doctoral student in school psychology and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) at Ball State University in Ohio is currently working on two research projects under the supervision of Dr. Susan Wilczynski during which they will examine the use of web-based parent training in ABA. The student is recruiting parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder living in the Midwest to participate in an online study where parents will have access to web-based training in ABA.
Click here for flyer
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Protection and Advocacy for Social Security Beneficiaries
with Disabilities Who Want to Return to Work
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Are you receiving Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and/or
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) based on disability?
Are you interested in becoming employed or keeping your job?
Do you need information, referrals or legal advocacy in reaching your goals?
If you said yes to all three questions, Disability Rights Iowa may be able to help you!
To request services, contact Disability Rights Iowa:
[email protected]
Phone: (515) 278-2502 Toll-free: (800) 779-2502
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Decoding Dyslexia Launches New Website
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Decoding Dyslexia Iowa has launched their new website!
There you can find up-to-date information, research, resources, videos and more!
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5665 Greendale Road, Suite D
Johnston, IA 50131
515-243-1713
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