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  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Keri Huddleston, M.A. CCC-SLP, Elizabeth Echebarria, M.S., Ed.

    Description: Feeling the pressure of creating and delivering defensible, practical, flexible, and sustainable AT services in your district? You are not alone! Keri understands as she spent over 25 years in public schools serving an exceptionally large district with only a small AT team. As a team lead, she helped to create, adapt, and grow an AT service delivery program that effectively met the needs of students, staff, and families despite a large geographical area and high number of students. She has also presented to and consulted with thousands of professionals across the country to build and improve their AT programs.  

    This workshop is designed to be an immersive, interactive experience to allow participants to actively identify barriers in their agencies, solve problems to meet their unique needs, and plan for improved outcomes. The presentation will outline specific strategies to help AT providers ensure efficient systems of referral, utilize effective and practical models of assessment based on needs, engage IEP team members in shared decision making, bolster implementation, demonstrate accountability, build site capacity, and create defensible, sustainable AT services for the long term.  

    Networking, collaboration, video, case studies, and practice with strategies will be utilized throughout the session and participants will leave with resources to use immediately!

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Karen Erickson, PhD and Claire Greer, PhD

    Description:

    Participants in this session learn to use a new open-source progress monitoring tool, the Project VC Progress Monitoring Tool, to support data-based decisions regarding emergent and conventional literacy instruction for learners with complex needs. The session will begin with a focus on establishing conditions for successful comprehensive literacy instruction. Then we will present instructional routines, technologies, materials, and resources to support comprehensive emergent and conventional literacy instruction for learners with complex needs. Finally, we will focus on the new progress monitoring tool, describing how it is used and how it can support individualized instructional decisions.

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Monday, October 21 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Mo Buti, M.Ed-BD, M.Ed-ADMIN, QIDP

    Description: When working with students with Autism; the areas of communication, social,  and behavior are all connected. We can not address these in isolation and need to provide supports and strategies to address them all. Where do you begin? Right here! Come to this session to learn effective strategies to help increase communication skills with your students with autism that will also enhance social interactions and improve behaviors! Let's connect the dots with practical, easy to implement and fun strategies!

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Monday, October 21 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Brenda Del Monte, M.A., CCC-SLP, Melanie Thompson, OTRL/L, Sarah Kinsella M.A., CCC-SLP

    Description: The gap between what we know is best practice and what we are seeing in practice, lead us to the tackling four primary issues - what does presumed competence as a starting point look like, what does high quality instruction look like when implementing AAC and literacy, what is the relationship and interconnection between AAC and vision when the ultimate goal is robust language, and how we approach cultural responsiveness by honoring the individual and the environment we are observing them, thereby creating trusting partnerships. We will cover over 20 intentional strategies and components of mentorship that speak to these issues.

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Kelly Key, M.S., ATACP

    Description: Training communication partners; school staff, peers, and families to gain comfort and confidence is essential for AAC implementation success.  Active, practical, and engaging learning opportunities provide the best outcomes.  This collaborative, hands-on, session will cover a variety of topics and ideas for providing professional development (PD) on AAC implementation and getting communication partner buy-in.  Participants will leave the session with creative ways to find time for PD (in-person and virtually), content to include in AAC training, videos to share, and so much more! They will also leave with their own personal presentation slides and plan for providing PD for the school year.

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Kelly Fonner, M.S., Donna McNear, M.A. and Sharon Redmon, M.S.

    Description: This pre conference workshop is for those of you who train, manage and support paraprofessionals who are supporting students who use assistive technologies for communication, visual access, social strategies, and physical access.  Presenters will include content and information, which is applicable to educators working with paraprofessionals in a wide variety of roles, from early childhood settings to high school, and with students who have a variety of disabilities in a variety of settings. Throughout the day, participants will be developing their own custom resource bank from information shared throughout the day. We will talk about working with paraprofessionals who are online, in-home, and be the parent. Discussion of challenges will include training, tensions, myths, system change, and building capacity. The presenters have experience in being paraprofessionals, supporting classroom-based paraprofessionals in-class, those that are one-on-ones, as well as those that act as therapy aides for speech and occupational departments.  This session is an opportunity for participants to understand and explore the critical role of paraprofessionals in promoting student success with materials, strategies, and assistive technologies by supporting them with training and planning.

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Monday, October 21 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Paige Buckingham, M.S.

    Description: Executive function skills are necessary to become independent in life and language is necessary for a person to be able to develop these Skills. Individuals who use Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC) systems often don’t have the same exposure to experiences as their neurotypical peers. Participants will do a crosswalk with familiar checklists in communication/language development and executive function, to see common strands. An interactive workshop segment will include completing the Communication Matrix and an Executive Function Checklist with a specific student in mind. The creation of a written implementation plan targeting an executive function and vocabulary will be completed.

  • Standard Fee Bundle With Conference Registration & Save $100*
    Single-day workshop - $330 Single-day workshop - $230

    *The bundle and save rate is available to participants who purchase a single-day workshop AND a full conference registration (Standard, Solutions Member, Presenter/Exhibitor registration apply) or conference registration and Solutions Membership combo. 

    Does not apply to already discounted single-day conference registration, individual with disability / parent registration, or full-time student registrations.

    The discount is automatically applied when you add both, a qualifying workshop and qualifying conference registration to your cart.

    Workshop Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm


    Presenters:
    Karen Kangas, B.S.O.T., Lisa Rotelli A.S. P.T.

    Description:

    When supporting a child in becoming a communicator, teaching the use of an AAC system presents numerous challenges. This workshop will focus on the underlying characteristics of cognitive and motor development, especially what has become critical analysis of the teaching needed to support independent AAC use. Cognitive load, motor memory, including cognitive mapping, senses maturation, and sensory processing experience will be examined as to their impact on the child’s ability to manage an AAC system,  including its software and its access. Demonstration and if time allows, hands-on experience will be included.

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  • What’s Included:
    • Featured on homepage: Your product/service will be listed on CTG homepage for one month
    • Social Media: Your product/service will be included in social media posts highlighting all featured products that month. As well as have 3 posts
    • Email Blast (20,000+ contacts): An email blast is sent to 20,000 contacts highlighting the featured products of the month.
    • Front Page Report: We will create a dedicated Front Page Report feature including information about your product or service. This webpage will be archived for one year in our ‘News’ tab in our main menu.
  • What’s Included:
    • Featured on homepage: Your product/service will be listed on CTG homepage for one month
    • Social Media: Your product/service will be included in social media posts highlighting all featured products that month. As well as have 3 posts
    • Email Blast (20,000+ contacts): An email blast is sent to 20,000 contacts highlighting the featured products of the month.
    • Front Page Report: We will create a dedicated Front Page Report feature including information about your product or service. This webpage will be archived for one year in our ‘News’ tab in our main menu.
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