Past Event Category: Cerebral Palsy
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Sep 30Transition Talks Tuesdays – Wisconsin Technical College SystemFeaturing: Wisconsin Technical Colleges
Virtual Meeting
Register Here About this Training: The Wisconsin Technical Colleges support youth and families during the transition to adulthood by offering a variety of post-secondary programs, including technical diplomas, degrees, and certificates, which can lead to competitive integrated employment and community integration. Through partnerships with high schools, youth can also access technical college courses to work …
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Sep 23Transition Talks Tuesdays – What’s After High School?
Featuring: Family Voices of Wisconsin
Virtual Meeting
Register Here About this Training: Learn about the transition to adult life for youth with disabilities and special health care needs from Family Voices of Wisconsin. This training covers the role of schools, long-term supports, public benefits, the change to adult health care, supported decision making options and other legal options, advocacy, employment, housing and living, …
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Aug 6Looking Beneath the Surface of “Challenging Behavior” – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Angela Marx, PhD
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
Discover alternative models for understanding what challenging behaviors represent and how to best support people who experience them.
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Jul 16Trauma’s Influence on the Brain, Body, and Behavior: Promoting Healing and Well-Being – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Angela Marx, PhD
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
This session will highlight the impact of trauma and stress on the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Jun 24Humanizing Mental Health – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Angela Marx, PhD
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
If you are a human and interact with other humans, you are “doing” mental health. It is not only something “done” in offices by mental health professionals.
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Jun 9Managing Threatening Confrontations – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Josh Lapin, MSSW
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
Overview: Managing Threatening Confrontations is designed to assist you in learning how to effectively support individuals who could experience the full range of behavioral escalation. These moments often appear chaotic-when to talk, when to step back, who to call for back up, and “when to duck.” This seminar is designed to put order to the …
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Apr 30Recognizing Power Dynamics – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Amanda Pandl
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
Overview: As caregivers, we are in a close and complicated relationship with the individuals we support. We are asked to ensure certain levels of health and safety, while also giving the client the dignity of personhood and autonomy. This complicated relationship can be wrought with disagreements that may lead to power struggles and attempts to …
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Apr 23Whose Life Is It, Anyway? – In Person TrainingFeaturing: Peter Leidy
UW South Madison Partnership, 2238 South Park Street, Madison, WI 53713
Overview: In this training session we will look at power and control in support relationships. Many people being supported feel that others are too often telling them what to do. Many supporters feel that guiding and deciding are expectations of their job or supervisor. We talk about choice all the time, but what does choice …
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Mar 15Alternative and Augmentative Communication Improv ShowFeaturing: Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk
Friends of the Waisman Center Auditorium Waisman Center
The Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison, is hosting an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Improvisation Show led by Dr. Alyssa Hillary Zisk, an autistic improviser who can speak most of the time, but not always. Come watch local improv performers use tools designed for AAC to communicate including technology designed to support communication for people …
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Mar 7Seminar – David Zopf, MD, MS – A Breath of Fresh Air: Novel Airway Device Innovation Using 3D Printing for Cerebral Palsy and Down Syndrome PatientsJohn D. Wiley Conference Center, Room T216 John D. Wiley Seminar Series
David Zopf, MD, MS University of Wisconsin–Madison Profile About the Speaker: David Zopf, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and the Section Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology. He has also been named the Division of Otolaryngology’s Director of Innovation. In this position, he will help coordinate and oversee …