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Show 'Prepare To Soar" Conference Set Friday In Bryce Valley TROPIC "Prepare To Soar," a conference for parents and teachers of children with disabilities, will be held at Bryce Valley High School in Tropic on Friday, Apr. 23. The conference contains information infor-mation on as classroom behavior management, curriculum for special needs children and service providers from various special needs organizations. organiza-tions. This year, registration for the conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the foyer of the auditorium. Ken Reavis, a behavior specialist from the Utah State Office of Education, will be the keynote speaker at from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m. Informative sessions will be a held in four different rooms starting at 10:30 a.m. until 4 p.m at the high school. Some of those who will be presenting information will be Gail L. Kulp, who is a parent consultant with the Educated Transition Tran-sition Choices project at the Utah Parents Center. She has been the main care provider for her son Jason, Ja-son, who was born with severe multiple disabilities. She joined the staff at the Utah Parents Center in 1995 where she has helped to develop de-velop training materials and activities activi-ties aimed at assisting parents with issues related to transition from school to adult services, which is (See CONFERENCE on Page 3-A) CONFERENCE From Front Page the topic she will be speaking on. Patricia Miles, who will give a lecture on wraparound services, is a partner with Brown-Miles in Portland, Port-land, Ore. She has initiated wraparound wrap-around projects in schools, juvenile justice settings, child welfare, and mental health and is also the coauthor co-author of several articles relating to the wraparound process. Another speaker will be Deb LeMarche, who is the associate director of the University of Utah's Telemedicine Outreach Program, which developed and manages the Utah Telehealth Network. Tele-health Tele-health is the use of electronic information in-formation and telecommunications technologies to support longdistance long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, edu-cation, public health- and health administration. She will focus on the current efforts and future potential poten-tial of telehealth in Utah. Some others who will present information at the conference will be Ken Reavis, who will speak on behavior management at home and in the classroom; Sherlin Rowley on advocacy; Dana Alvey on disability dis-ability law; Sheri Dial on TEP parents par-ents as partners; Bev Adcock on IEP's and classroom adaptation. Also speaking will be Tom Brownley on person centered planning; plan-ning; Barb Neuenschwander on total communication and Judy Dixon, who will have an open forum on family support. As part of the conference, several sev-eral booths will provide additional aids and information in the foyer during the afternoon, including Discovery Dis-covery Toys, Special Olympics, Utah Independent Living Center, Autism Society of Utah, Division of Services for Persons with Disabilities, Dis-abilities, Vocational Rehabilitation, Disability Law Center, Camp Kostopulos, Iron Parke, Utah Parents Par-ents Center, Association Advocating Advocat-ing for Persons with Retardation (ARC), Danville, Early Intervention, Interven-tion, Southwest Mental Health, and Children with Special Health Care Needs. For more information on the conference, contact Tracy Johnson or Vicki Ahlstrom at 435-679-8719. The first 100 registrants will receive a stipend to pay the registration registra-tion fee, which is $10. |
