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Iowa Family & Educator Partnership Newsletter Vol 11, Num 4 March 2018
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Procedural Safeguards for Parents Recording
Couldn't make it to the January 25th Procedural Safeguards for Parents? We have it up and running on the GPAEA webpage. You can find it by going to
www.gpaea.org, click on services tab, scroll down to
Iowa Family & Educator Partnership/FEP, click, scroll down to Recorded Learning Opportunities.
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CHALLENGER BASEBALL LEAGUE
Ottumwa Challenger League offers "adapted baseball" to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities.
It provides the opportunity for every student to participate in baseball regardless of ability or limitations.
Challenger League advocates the use of a 'Buddy System.' Players who are unable to play independently
may be assisted by a parent, friend, or sibling. Students ages 5-21 (or until the completion of high school)
are eligible to play. Registration is open to anyone who resides in Ottumwa or the surrounding communities.
If you, or someone that you know, are interested in playing or have questions, please contact Ellen Moreland,
Challenger League Coordinator, at 641-799-0825.
Deadline for registering is March 20th.
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Anxiety: Why It's Different From Stress
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Anxiety is not uncommon among children with learning and attention issues.
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There's a difference between anxiety and stress.
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There are steps you can take to help your child manage anxiety.
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New Guide to Mobile Apps for Transition-age Youth
Many free and low-cost mobile apps are available to support transition-age youth
with disabilities as they
embark on their journey towards post-secondary education,
job training, employment, and independent living. With so many options, where do
you begin? A new PACER book, "The Path to Independence: Mobile Apps to
Support Transition-Age Youth," includes apps that parents and professionals have
found useful and well-designed.
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Parent Support Groups
Iowa Compass
is an all in one disability resource database. To find information about disability related programs
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This Months AT Minute
Today's tool:
Seeing A1 by Microsoft
this app is FREE. The app is designed for people who are blind or have low vision. It is an intelligent camera app
that can provide people with information about who and what is around you. The app scans and reads text.
The app has four channels:
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Short text channel reads text right away using the camera. This channel is designed to read labels, signs, and other short amounts of text.
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Document channel reads documents using OCR. It detects edges for you informing you if you are not getting the entire document in the photo.
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Product channel identifies products based on their barcode and gives a description.
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Person channel estimates the age and emotion of people using the device's camera. The app guides you on where to hold the camera to get the entire person in the picture.
Example of how to scan and read text. Open the app scroll down to document.
Select document and take a photo of the document. Th
e app will guide you in
how to take the picture.
After you take the photo it will say processing.
and password.
This is what the document will look like when you are reading. It will highlight and read the text. Notice on the bottom you can play, stop, send, and change the size of text.
To borrow an iPad with the Seeing A1 app from the AEA Media Center contact: [email protected] or EXT 5272.
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For more family friendly information
please visit our website at
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Workshop on Twice Exceptionality
Central Rivers AEA, Cedar Falls
Friday, April 13-Saturday April 14
Training educators to meet the academic and affective needs of twice exceptional students is a critical need in Iowa. ITAG's spring workshop for gifted and special needs educators and administrators will assist district teams in developing plans to address these challenges and to learn instructional approaches that emphasize rigor. Teachers and all educational personnel can benefit from professional development on the characteristics and performance of twice exceptional students, which will increase the probability that these students will be identified and appropriately served with both gifted and special education services. Each team attending will leave with a district plan draft for serving twice exceptional students as well as strategies designed to provide appropriate classroom instruction.
Presenters include Megan Foley-Nicpon from the University of Iowa and Rebecca Lopez and Julie MacKissock from Cherry Creek School District, Greenwood Village, Colorado. Iowa educators will share their approaches in breakout sessions.
Each team attending will leave with a district plan draft for serving twice exceptional students as well as strategies designed to provide appropriate classroom instruction. Register four people from your district and
ITAG will waive the registration fee for one administrator from your district! Contact
[email protected]
for more information.
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Friday, April 27, 2018 8:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Center for Disabilities and Development
Rembolt Conference Room
Cost: $175 professionals, $125 families, $50 students
We are in the process of obtaining information needed from presenters to offer CMEs to attendees.
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Iowans with ABLE savings accounts will be able to save more next year. The total annual contribution limit to an ABLE account will be increased from $14,000 per tax year to $15,000 per tax year beginning this year. This will allow Iowans with ABLE accounts to save an extra $1,000 a year without loosing other benefits.
For more information about ABLE accounts, please visit the ABLE National Resource Center at www.ablenrc.oorg or Iowa's ABLE website at www.iable.gov.
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The Impacts of Tourette Syndrome Study
How has having Tourette Syndrome or a Tic Disorder affected you or your family? The Tourette Association of America is
looking for participants to take a brief survey on the impacts of having Tourette Syndrome or a Tic Disorder.
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Do You Have Good News About Your Child's Success?
Every day your child experiences little successes as they move
forward in their educational experience. We would like to hear your
stories about the progress your child is making through the collaborative
efforts of Great Prairie AEA, your school and you. Please take a few
minutes to share news about your child and the great things he/she
is learning to do. We need the following basic information for an article to share
with our readers:
- Child's Name
- Child's School District
- Child's Age (when he/she began receiving AEA assistance and Age now)
- Child's Unique Needs
- How the AEA has been instrumental in the progress?
- Your Name and Names of those AEA staff who have been or continue to serve your child
If you would like to share a success story with us, please send the above
information to Jennifer Woodley, Communication Specialist,
Great Prairie AEA, at [email protected]
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2814 N. Court Street, Ottumwa, IA 52501
3601 West Avenue Road
Burlington, IA 52601
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