Author Archives: Amy McLemore

Please click HERE to go directly to our State Convention Page.  Once on this page, register by scrolling down to the bottom… Focus on Adapted Physical Education: Our APE Association has been a terrific line-up of outstanding sessions this year. They include: Bethany Chapple’s “The Toolbox for Supporting Students with...

The NCDPI Autism Team is pleased to offer a 2-hour live webinar on November 19, 2020 from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. with Perry Flynn, NCDPI Consultant for Speech Language Pathology. We will be exploring communication skills, pragmatics, communication differences in students with ASD, and effective collaboration with speech language...

Amanda Browning 2020 NC SHAPE High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year

NC DPI is not endorsing or promoting this webinar. This notice is provided for your information. The National Center on Advancing Person-Centered Practices and Systems (NCAPPS) presents this upcoming webinar: Student-Directed Individualized Education Plan (IEP): Bringing Person-Centered Practices to Schools and Beyond Register for the webinar on Tuesday, October 27...

The ECAC has a new quarterly newsletter! YEP – Young Exceptional Perspectives – it is written BY and FOR NC Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities Please subscribe at: https://www.ecac-parentcenter.org/sign-up-for-the-yep-newsletter/   Please spread the word to your students!

A Month of Convenings The 2020 Color of Education Summit will be held virtually, and will consist of weekly events during the month of October.

For those interested in the Summer Institute sessions that they were not able to attend or those that would like to review the content again, you may now watch the recorded sessions. No CEUs are available for these recordings. All sessions are available at the link below: 2020 Summer Institute...

What happens next? Post-secondary Education, Work? A Journey toward Independence: Positive Outcomes for Youth With Intellectual/ Developmental Disabilities Sessions will be held throughout the month of October 2020 Monday’s 12pm-1:30pm or 6:30pm-8:00pm Thursday’s 12:00pm-1:30pm or 6:30pm-8:00pm Registration will be required to attend!

Oct. 7, 2020 – Chris Chatham, PhD, & Kevin Sanders, MD, Roche,“Challenges in Developing Novel Interventions for Autism at the Global Scale” Nov. 4, 2020 – Darren Hedley, PhD, La Trobe University, “From Employment to Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Reflecting on Five Years of Research with Autistic Adults” Dec. 2, 2020 – Fred Shic, PhD, University of...