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Resources
These links are to .pdf documents. They include websites, images,
and lists of materials.
You will
need to download the free Adobe Reader in order to view them.
Help.
AAC and Inclusive
Education for Students with the Most Severe Disabilities, a PowerPoint
presentation by Dr. Stephen N. Calculator
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD / ADHD)
Blog Software
Comparison Chart
CSAPA – Guidelines for Determining Eligibility
Developing and Evaluating Interventions
Direct
Instruction – Why Education Experts Resist Effective Practices
Driver’s Education resources
• Colorado Early
Childhood Hearing Screening Guidelines and PowerPoint
• Early
Childhood Vision
Screening overview
• Effects of
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy on Young Children with Disruptive Behavior
Disorders
• Literacy
Development in the Preschool Years
• Preventing
Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Effective Practices
• The Storm in My Brain:
Kids and Mood Disorders
Encore training
website
Functional
Behavioral Assessment - Definitions
Graduation
Requirements for Students with Disabilities
Huerfano County Community Resource Guide
IEP
goals sheet in Excel
Interventions on the web www.interventioncentral.org
Instructional Interventions for Classroom Disruption
Journals – Online,
research-based, free
Language
Arts instruction resources
Listservs
for school libraries
Literacy resources in English & Spanish
Math instruction resources
Nonverbal Learning Disabilities: Best Practice
Phonemic Awareness
Positive
Behavior Support programs (PBS)
• Association
for Positive Behavior Support Online www.apbs.org
• Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment
• National
Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
(PBIS) www.pbis.org/main.htm
• Positive Behavior Support: Evolution
of an Applied Science
• Positive Behavior Support
Facilitator’s Guide
• Positive Behavior Support
in High Schools
Progress
monitoring worksheets by
Progress monitoring sheet – Fields, Excel or PDF
Reading instruction resources
• A Parent’s Guide to
Response-to-Intervention
• Alternative Approaches to the
Definition and Identification of Learning Disabilities
• Response to Intervention: a
Primer for Parents
• Response to Intervention: General
and Special Education Collaboration
• Response to
Instruction in the Identification of Learning Disabilities: a Guide for School
Teams
• Responsiveness-to-Intervention:
a blueprint for practitioners, policymakers, and parents
• RTI and Reading: Response to
Intervention in a Nutshell
Restraint, Seclusion and Timeout guidelines from CDE
Social-emotional curricular materials
Spanish language materials, including materials on aspects
of Hispanic culture
Speech-Language resources
• Making the
Transition from School to Work
• Preparing for
Employment: On the Home Front
• Transition
Planning: Setting Lifelong Goals
Wiki imc-infoliteracy.pbwiki.com
Continuing Education
Classes
The
courses listed here were developed by a team of BOCES staff members. They are
meant to give BOCES staff and school education staff opportunities to obtain
Contact Hour credit for a number of re-certification programs.
Courses
require no formal enrollment.
Participants will receive a certificate upon course completion.
For more information, questions, or ideas,
please contact:
Educational Coordinator Brad Atchison,
Occupational Therapist
South
100 West Spruce,
719.738.1701
Create a Social Story
Using PowerPoint
This course is worth 3 contact hours. This
course was designed to teach:
(a) what good Social Stories are and how to use
them
(b) how to use a widely-available software program
(PowerPoint), and
(c)
how to use some fantastic resources available through the BOCES.
Download
the Continuing Education Learning Project 1, fill it out and
save it on your computer.
Send
it and your completed PowerPoint to Educational Coordinator Brad Atchison by
attaching both files to an email to atchison-b@scboces.k12.co.us
Here’s an example
for you to look at: Circle Time Social Story
Parents’ Events
Special
Education Process Meetings
Open
meetings for parents to ask questions about 504 supports, Early Childhood services, and other Special
Education processes. More information will be coming soon. Please contact your
local BOCES office.
Transition
Advisory Boards
Parents in Walsenburg,
Contact
Suzanne Ireland at (719) 738-1701 or ireland-s@scboces.k12.co.us
for more information.
Parent
Advisory Boards
The BOCES would like parents to provide guidance
and make recommendations about the Special Education process and the new
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) requirements.
Contact Special Education Secretary Sue Anderson at anderson-s@scboces.k12.co.us
or (719) 647-0023 for more information.
Parents’ Resources
From
Parent to Parent of
This two-page
guide lists many free statewide services for parents of children and adults
with disabilities.
Also
look at the Parent to Parent website, http://www.p2p-co.org/,
for more information.
PEAK is a non-profit organization providing free services to
Please
contact their central office in
Special
Kids, Special Families
Among other programs and services, this
non-profit provides information about professional parenting for foster
children. Please call toll-free (866) 447-8983 or go to http://www.sksfcolorado.org/.
Home and Community-based Services for Children with Autism
Waiver, a PowerPoint presentation from CDE.
Courier service by Greg Valerio
The BOCES offers a courier service to its member
school districts Monday through Thursday when the schools are in session.
BOCES additionally provides a statewide courier
shuttle from CSU-Pueblo to statewide-serviced schools as a weekly service.
Materials
going to and from District 70 are transported by the District 70 courier, who
picks up and drops of materials at the BOCES on most Mondays and Thursdays when
schools are in session.
Monday (in order
of visit)
Eastern
satellite office (Ordway)
Ordway
Administration building
Tuesday (in order
of visit)
Central
satellite office (Walsenburg)
Huerfano
School District Administration building
La
La
Aguilar
school
Hoehne
school
Wednesday (in order of visit)
Penrose
school
Fremont
Administration building
Westcliffe
school
Western satellite office (
Thursday (in order of visit)
Southern
satellite office (
Primero
school
Fisher’s
Trinidad
Administration building
Branson
school (if needed)
Phone 719.647.0023, Fax 719.647.0136, Email imc@scboces.k12.co.us.
Borrowing
information
Holds and reserves for items can be placed online by
clicking Place Hold/ Reserve in the
online catalog and entering
your barcode and password (available when first registering with the IMC).
Barcodes look like P
1000 and passwords are Yourlastname.
Email if you don’t know
them.
Alternately, you can either call, fax, or email to make your
request.
Curriculum materials can be checked out to registered
general users for a 21-day period. Other resources and materials can be checked
out to registered users for a 30-day period.
All materials may be renewed once by email or phone.
Overdue materials which are not returned after third contact
will be considered lost and a replacement fee will be billed to the user.
What’s Here
Language
and Intelligence Assessment kits; ESL and Literacy materials; Autism resources;
Psychology resources; Parent articles; Assistive Technology; CDE videos,
training materials; Early Childhood resources; and 1750 Educational videos.
If
we don’t have something, we can Interlibrary Loan it from anywhere in the
state.
About the IMC
The
Telephone: (719) 647-0023 x.120
Fax: (719) 647-0136 Email: imc@scboces.k12.co.us
revised 11/06/07 REO