2021 Virtual Early On Michigan Conference - FULL
Dates:
November 10-12, 2021
Cost:
$50.00
Single Day Cost: $20.00
Details:
We are excited to offer The 2021 Virtual Early On Conference: Strong Foundations for the Future of Early Intervention, offering participants three days of engaging sessions by renowned Michigan and national speakers. See the program to the right and the full agenda linked below for more information.
Follow the Register link at the end of the page. After you have completed your selection of sessions, you will receive confirmation of your registration. An email with the links to each of your chosen sessions will be emailed to you in early November.
Webinar Connection:
Once you have registered, the connection information will appear here or you will be emailed a link to the webinar at a later date.
Agenda:
Pre-Conference Welcome and Greetings: Wednesday - 12:30pm to 1:00pm
Keynote: Wednesday - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
A - Centering Assessment and Intervention Around Routines
The backbone of family life and children's functioning is daily, sometimes weekly, routines. This workshop will show how a simple concept of engagement, independence, and social relationships in each of a child's routines can guide our selection of functional outcomes and, more importantly, our "family consultation" to build caregiver capacity. This concept maximizes the amount of intervention a child receives. The Routines-Based Model also promotes a primary-service-provider approach to ensure a coherent, relationship-focused service delivery model, promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in early intervention.
Welcome and Updates: Thursday - 12:30pm to 12:45pm
Welcome and Updates
Seminar/Session 1 Breakouts: Thursday - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
A - Fundamentals of Writing Meaningful IFSP Outcomes - (Seminar Part 1 of 2)
Whether you have been writing IFSP outcomes for five minutes or five years, it can be helpful to take some time to review the fundamentals and reflect on your work. In this seminar, we will review key ideas about what well-written outcomes are and are not and ground ourselves in a simple formula for writing outcomes (who, what, where, how). We will also use seven fundamentals of writing individualized, functional, and meaningful IFSP outcomes to guide our thinking as we consider real-life stories, share ideas and tips, critique examples, and practice writing outcomes that are meaningful to all team members, especially families.
B - Taking the “Essential Instructional Practices in Language and Emergent Literacy: Birth to Age 3” from Understanding to ACTION! - (Seminar Part 1 of 2)
Sean LaRosa, EdS, Assistant Superintendent for Early Learning, Livingston ESA, and Co-Chair, General Education Leadership Network (GELN) Early Literacy Task Force
This presentation will move participants to become familiar with the “Essential Instructional Practices in Language and Emergent Literacy: Birth to Age 3” practitioner and parent documents. They will explore, make connections to their work and identify practical applications.
C - The What, Why, and How of Implementation Science: Making Real World Lasting Change in Early Intervention - (Seminar Part 1 of 2)
Do you have a desire to make long lasting change with families, children, and communities? Have you ever wondered why an exciting new strategy, tool, or intervention did not work? Have you ever felt that money was wasted on large scale training that did not sustain in practice over the years? If yes, this session is for you! The field of implementation science (IS) helps to understand critical factors that lead to improved outcomes and sustainable practices. However, it can be hard knowing where to start with IS. This seminar will provide concrete tools for using IS to promote systems change and practice improvement in early intervention. Theoretical foundations for IS, real-world examples, recent research, resources for improving practices, and time for practice/application will be provided.
D - The Power of Play in a High-Tech World - (Seminar Part 1 of 2)
It is critical for pediatric therapists, early childhood educators, and parents to understand and appreciate the connection between brain development and play, especially in young children who present with developmental delays. This seminar will provide an evidence-based approach to working with young children and their families by promoting cognitive, language, sensorimotor, and social-emotional development through child-directed, adult-guided play experiences. Participants will gain more insight into how play has changed over the years as a result of technology, along with a rationale for the benefits of screen-free play for young children with developing brains and bodies.
E - Team Up! Supporting the Unique Needs of Your Infants and Toddlers who have Blind/Visual Impairment (BVI)
Early intervention for infants and toddlers who have Blind/Visual Impairment (BVI) is essential. Hear the Michigan Department of Education-Low Incidence Outreach (MDE-LIO) outline the unique needs of infants and toddlers who are BVI and gain the insight, tools and resources you need to support the families you serve!
F - The Michigan Personas: New Tools for Faculty and Professional Development Providers
Danielle Savory-Seggerson, MA, Professor, Lansing Community College
Presenters will introduce the new Michigan personas and highlight ways in which they may be used in teaching, coaching, mentoring, supervision, and other forms of professional development (PD). They will illustrate how the personas may be used to help learners become more familiar with and use evidence-based practices through demonstrations. Participants will leave with access to the Michigan personas as well as the companion materials (evidence sources, sample questions and prompts) that were developed for each persona. This session is designed for faculty members and PD providers, but anyone is welcome!
G - Shaking it up! Writing Actual Family-Centered Goals as told by Mom
Journey along with Sarah, a mother to a baby with complex medical needs as she takes on re-writing her son's IFSP. Not only did she author the document, it ended up centering on the very values she was after: not focusing on her son's deficits, but celebrating the entire family's growth through objectives while meeting all state and federal requirements. Prepare to see a new perspective on the strength-based approach to support the lives of the families we all serve.
Seminar/Session 2 Breakouts: Thursday - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
A - Fundamentals of Writing Meaningful IFSP Outcomes - (Seminar Part 2 of 2)
If you registered for 1A, please register for this session as well.
B - Taking the “Essential Instructional Practices in Language and Emergent Literacy: Birth to Age 3” from Understanding to ACTION! - (Seminar Part 2 of 2)
Sean LaRosa, EdS, Assistant Superintendent for Early Learning, Livingston ESA, and Co-Chair, General Education Leadership Network (GELN) Early Literacy Task Force
If you registered for 1B, please register for this session as well.
C - The What, Why, and How of Implementation Science: Making Real World Lasting Change in Early Intervention - (Seminar Part 2 of 2)
If you registered for 1C, please register for this session as well.
D - The Power of Play in a High-Tech World - (Seminar Part 2 of 2)
If you registered for 1D, please register for this session as well.
E - Compassionate Care Practices within Caregiver Coaching
This presentation explores the reported use, perceptions, and confidence in compassionate care practices within caregiver coaching from the perspectives of Michigan early intervention providers and the caregivers they coach. Compassionate care encompasses therapeutic relationship practices including listening, collaboration, empathy, and compassion, which have been found to be correlated to a number of important outcome variables (e.g., satisfaction, adherence to treatment, and improved clinical outcomes). The early intervention field values family-centered practices (Division for Early Childhood, 2014) and promotes the use of coaching models, yet current recommendations do not explicitly encompass compassionate care practices. During this presentation, results from a mixed-methods study funded by the Early On Faculty Grant will be shared and recommendations for preparation and practice will be discussed along with implications for the field. The target audience is early intervention providers and Early On administrators. Participants will gain knowledge of compassionate care practices and how they can be used to enhance caregiver coaching sessions. They will also be given a checklist of compassionate care practices within caregiver coaching that they can use as a self-assessment tool.
F - Agree to Disagree: Listening for Family Resistance to Foster Shared Decisions
Collaborative decision-making by early educators and families is essential to partnerships. Reaching consensus requires recognizing and addressing disagreement. Yet families may communicate disagreement in subtle ways missed by early educators. We will explore research-based strategies early educators can use to listen for and respond to parental resistance. The target audience for this session is Early On practitioners who regularly engage with families, particularly in the context of home visiting.
G - Michigan Mandatory Special Education Birth to Three Eligibility Guidance
Beth Rice, MAEd, Education Consultant, DHH, Michigan Department of Education
This session will provide an overview of the current Michigan Mandatory Special Education Birth to Three Eligibility Guidance documents developed by the Michigan Department of Education Offices of Special Education and Great Start with the assistance of stakeholder and field perspectives and input.
Post-Conference Keynote: Friday - 12:30pm to 3:30pm
A - Coaching in Early Childhood
M’Lisa L. Shelden, Ph.D., PT, Wichita State University
This awareness-level webinar will provide the background and rationale for using a coaching interaction style to build the capacity of parents, teachers, and other care providers to promote child learning within the context of everyday routines and activities. The presenters will share the evidence-based characteristics of coaching practices and discuss strategies that can be used by all early intervention practitioners from a variety of backgrounds (service coordination, education, occupational therapy, physical therapy, special education, and speech-language pathology).
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