Transcript Back to School

Cradle to College and Career
Practice Group
Part of the National Community of
Practice on Transition
IDEA Partnership
• For more information, contact:
– Marianne Moore at
[email protected]
– Ashley Stoffel at [email protected]
• For more information and links to previous
presentations, visit:
–http://www.sharedwork.org/web/tran
sition/home
Webinars hosted by Cradle to College
and Career PG
• THE NEW GED
– January 24, 2014
• Occupational Therapy and Early Childhood
Transitions
– August 26, 2013
• What Does Health Have To Do With
Transition?
– March 21, 2013
• Why does cultural responsivity matter?
– July 16, 2014
Back to School
Claudette Fette, OTR, PhD, CRC
Resources!
 AOTA Resources
 Brochure on Role of OT in Schools for Administrators
Brochure on Role of OT in Schools for Parents
 School Mental Health Toolkit
 Consumer Brochure on RtI
 Transitions Fact Sheet
 Fact Sheet on Elopement/Wandering
 OT Performance Appraisal Document
 IDEA Partnership
 Family Run Support and Advocacy organizations
 Statewide Family Networks
 Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
 WrightsLaw, PTACs
Occupational Therapy
 In schools, OTs help children participate as students
 Observe & suggest strategies to facilitate participation
 Reduce barriers, suggest compensatory strategies
 Help plan instructional activities to support classroom
 Collaborate with educational team
 School based
Occupational Therapy
Fact Sheets:
http://www.aota.org/About
-OccupationalTherapy/Professionals/CY/
School.aspx
School Mental Health
Toolkit
http://www.aota.org/Practice/ChildrenYouth/Mental%20Health/School-MentalHealth.aspx
Transitions Fact
Sheet
http://www.aota.org//media/Corporate/Files/About
OT/Professionals/WhatIsOT/C
Y/Fact-Sheets/Transitions.pdf
Elopement/Wandering Fact Sheet
http://www.aota.org//media/Corporate/Files/Pr
actice/Children/AutismWandering-Fact-SheetFeb-10-2014.PDF
Response to Intervention
http://www.aota.org/Practice/
Children-Youth/Schoolbased/RTI.aspx
School Based OT
Performance
Guidelines
http://www.aota.org/
/media/Corporate/File
s/Practice/Children/Pe
rformanceEvaluation-Schoolbased-Therapists1031-13.pdf
IDEA
Partnership
 Collections
 Communities of
Practice
 http://www.idea
partnership.org/
IDEA Information
 Wrightslaw
 NICHCY moving to
http://www.parentce
nterhub.org/reposito
ry/idea/
 http://www.pacer.or
g/legislation/idea/pd
f/idea2004parentgui
de.pdf
Family Run Support and
Advocacy organizations
 Statewide Family
Networks
 http://familyorgdirectory.
fmhi.usf.edu/map.cfm
 http://www.ffcmh.org/
 http://fredla.org/
Parent Technical Assistance
Centers
 http://www.parentcenterhub.
org/find-your-center/
Remember to highlight your
child’s strengths
 In introduction to
 teachers
 IEP meetings
 Preparation with student
 At end of day