The Montana Deaf-Blind Project, in partnership with the Montana Transition Resources Project, is pleased to welcome Philip Schweigert, M.Ed, for a two-part webinar series. Please note that you must register separately for each session. OPI renewal unit credit is available.
Session 1: Recognizing the Communication Abilities of Learners with Significant Disabilities
Monday, August 10, 2020
9:30 AM-11:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time (10:30-12:30 Central; 11:30-1:30 Eastern)
Reserve your webinar seat now at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/697012714807448848
Description: This session will focus on assessing levels of communication for learners at the non-symbolic or early symbolic level of communication. The Communication Matrix (Rowland,C., 2006) will be used to review the assessment process and how to target levels for instruction and programming.
Session 2: Promoting the Communicative Competence of Learners with Significant Disabilities
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
9:30 AM-11:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time (10:30-12:30 Central; 11:30-1:30 Eastern)
Description: This session will present participants with a variety of examples of learners at various pre-symbolic stages and intervention strategies to further their communicative abilities. It will also discuss the transition from pre-symbolic to emerging symbolic communication and describe interventions designed to promote the learner's continued progress at this stage of expressive communication development.
Presenter:
Philip Schweigert, M.Ed, began working with children with sensory and multiple disabilities in 1977 in Portland, Oregon. After serving as both a classroom teacher and later, program chair, he spent 22 years as project coordinator on numerous research and demonstration efforts to investigate assessment and intervention strategies in communication and cognitive skill development in individuals with severe disabilities. Philip has authored and co-authored articles for refereed journals as well as curriculum materials through the Design to Learn project of Oregon Health & Science University. He subsequently served as a consultant, lead teacher and affiliate university instructor and continues to provide consultation nationally in the area of communication strategies for learners with significant disabilities.
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