News from Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University

INTEGRATED TRAINING COLLABORATIVE

NEWSLETTER

SEPTEMBER 2020

FEATURED TOPIC:

Using Tele-Intervention to Support Families

It’s been six months since we began the tele-intervention journey in Virginia’s early intervention system and across our field. Lots of resources are now available to help EI practitioners support families using virtual platforms. Visit the COVID-19 and EI Tele-Intervention Updates page on the VEIPD site for more information, or start by checking out these great resources:

Early Childhood Intervention Tele-Practice (FIPP)
Inside the Virtual Visit: Using Tele-Intervention to Support Families in Early Intervention (Young Exceptional Children Journal, Division for Early Childhood)
Provider and Educator Use of Technology (ECTA Center)

TALKS ON TUESDAYS

Talks on Tuesdays (ToTs) are one-hour webinars designed to provide free online training opportunities related to important topics in early intervention. Topics chosen for the Talks on Tuesdays webinar series are based on feedback from EI practitioners about what they need to know more about! ToTs are held on the first Tuesday of the month from 12:00-1:00PM.

FEATURED WEBINARS

Our September ToT, How Are You? – A Web Discussion about Tele-Intervention, focused on a lively discussion with EI practitioners about their experiences providing tele-intervention over the past six months. To view these archived webinars, please visit the 2020 Talks on Tuesdays Recordings.

Join us for our upcoming 2-part webinar series in Oct and Nov on Adverse Childhood Experiences (the ACEs) entitled, Trauma and Early Childhood Development.

Registration today!

FEATURED RESOURCES

Using Tele-Intervention to Conduct EI Visits (Learning Byte)
A Home Visit with Zander’s Family (Video, ECTA Center)
A Practical Guide to the Use of Tele-Intervention in Providing Early Intervention Services to Infants and Toddlers Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (Online Modules, NCHAM)
Deaf-Blindness for Early Intervention Practitioners Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Early Intervention (New Online Courses)

BLOGS and PODCASTS

Are you keeping up with our blog, Early Intervention Strategies for Success and the EI on the Fly Podcast?

Blog Posts:

Podcast:

Episode 2: Intentional Observation

TRAINING CALENDAR

Check the TRAINING CALENDAR frequently for current conferences, webinars and other professional development opportunities provided both by the VEIPD Center as well as other agencies and organizations.

ITC ACTIVITIES UPDATE

Here are some of the activities that the professional development team has been up to this spring. We have:

Hosted our summer SC Chat on the service coordinator’s role in the child outcomes summary process
Recorded podcasts for our 2nd series on teaming and collaboration in collaboration with MA’s EI office
Reviewed and (nearly) completed writing for the DEC/ITCA joint position statement on service coordination and early intervention
Completed edits on an upcoming national resource, Knowledge and Skills for Service Coordinators, in collaboration with the National SC Leadership Group
Worked on updating the EI Strategies for Success blog – stay tuned for the reveal!
Continued providing staff support to assist with EI services in Portsmouth
Represented our state as an aRPy Ambassador with resource development and a presentation
Provided support for two new virtual networks called ECHOs (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) related to early intervention and autism. The local system managers/program ECHO will address system-level issues and solutions related to screening and identifying autism of children 0-3 and providing support for their families. The service provider/SC ECHO will focus on case-based learning to gain expertise in providing services for children with autism and their families.
Launched the Functional Assessment Learning Path
Initiated a collaboration workgroup with preservice EI faculty across the state and wrote two detailed case studies for their use with students
Collaborated with the DEC Personnel Prep Committee to provide a resource-based and needs assessment webinar, Planning for the fall? Refresh, recharge, and renovate professional development and courses
Highlighted resources across our social media platforms. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.
Launched two new optional modules related to early intervention-specific vision and hearing knowledge, developed in collaboration with the Virginia Project for Children and Young Adults with Deaf-Blindness and the Technical Assistance Center for Children who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Began developing plans for new training activities, such as a series of “short courses” for new and experienced service providers
Began reviewing the Kaleidoscope training curriculum and adapting it for a virtual format to be provided in November 2020
Developed new Learning Bytes, including After the Screening: Utilizing the Social-Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM) to Support Social-Emotional Competence

The fall Kaleidoscope will be held in November using an alternate virtual format due to pandemic limitations on in-person training. When more information about the training and registration become available, you’ll find it on the Kaleidoscope Service Coordination Training page.