Disability Accommodations in Residential Living
| Disability accommodations and supporting strategies are often required center wide. Residential advisors, residential managers and Disability Coordinators are invited to join us for a discussion on the roles and responsibilities of residential living staff in supporting students with disabilities.
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Disability Coordinator Orientation Part 2a: Disability Accommodation Policy
| This webinar reviews the primary policy components of the disability accommodation requirements to include the responsibility Job Corps has to communicate effectively with people with disabilities
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Disability Coordinator Orientation Part 2b: Disability Accommodation Process
| This webinar reviews each component of the disability accommodation process to include the referral process.
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Service Animals and Assistance Animals in the Job Corps Program PPT
Service Animals in Job Corps Process Graphic
Assistance Animals Requests Process Graphic |
This webinar will discuss legal requirements related to ensuring applicants and students with a service animal are provided access to Job Corps centers. The process for requesting an assistance animal as an accommodation will also be covered. Additionally, the updated “Service Animals and Assistance Animals in Job Corps Program” guide will be reviewed along with sample scenarios and related resources. |
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| Supporting Students with Disabilities Center-wide |
This webinar provides all staff (especially those in support and other
auxiliary areas of the center) with the information needed to support students
with disabilities and assist in meeting Disability Program requirements. |
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| Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Support Learning for Students with Disabilities |
Participants will be
introduced to the basic concepts of UDL including ways that the framework
provides access and support for both in person and distance learning settings. ALL students need equitable access to digital and print
materials and technologies used to deliver instruction on center and remotely.
UDL is a scientifically-based framework to improve and optimize teaching and
learning for all types of students. This webinar’s focus will highlight
how center staff can optimally manage the implementation and coordination of
accommodations for students with disabilities through the use of flexible
learning environments including distance learning settings.
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| Supporting Executive Functioning for Students on Center and in Distance Learning Settings |
Executive function is the “command and control” center of all cognitive skills. Although executive functioning issues are not considered a disability on their own, they often appear in individuals with disabilities to include LD, ADHD, Spectrum Disorder, Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD to name a few. This webinar reviews various executive function manifestations, related functional limitations, and explores a variety of accommodations and supports that could assist Job Corps students with executive function challenges on center and in distance/remote/online learning. |
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| Reasonable Accommodation Hot Topics #1 |
The center interactive reasonable accommodation
process can be a complex one that encompasses never-ending scenario
configurations and considerations. This
webinar reviews and discusses some of the more common areas of challenge
encountered in the reasonable accommodation process
including: Reasonableness Reviews, Accommodation
Recommendations of Denial (ARDFs) and Reasonable Accommodation Committee (RAC)
Responsibilities in the TABE Waiver Process. |
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| Distance Learning Resources to Support Students with Disabilities |
Students
with disabilities have the same right to receive accommodations in Distance
Learning activities as they do with on center activities. This interactive webinar will review Distance
Learning resources and strategies designed to create access for students with
disabilities but also could benefit ALL students. |
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| Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt |
This
webinar will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical
adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with
disabilities in career technical training. The importance of developing
supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be
discussed. |
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| Improving Employability Outcomes By Enhancing Self-Regulation for Students with Disabilities |
A growing body of research is demonstrating the importance of self-regulation skills in helping people obtain and maintain employment. Students with various disabilities often come to Job Corps with challenges associated with poor or inadequate self-regulation skills. This functional limitation can impact all areas of life including employability.
This webinar will define self-regulation
skills, outline specific strategies and resources for improving students’
self-regulation skills, and discuss how to accommodate functional limitations
associated with self-regulation challenges. A Center Mental Health
Consultant (CMHC) with more than 20 years’ experience in Job Corps will be a
guest speaker and provide examples of how to use specific resources,
including technology, to support students with self-regulation challenges.
*Webinar Resources/Handouts Page |
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| Documentation of Disability: IEPs and Beyond |
This webinar provides an overview of the process
for determining documentation of a disability including policy resources, examples of typical
sources of disability documentation, examples of how to locate accommodation
support within the disability documentation, and what to do when an
applicant/student does not have documentation of a disability. |
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Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Center-Based” Trades
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Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Center-Based” Trades is Part 2 of a 2-part webinar series that will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with disabilities enrolled in the medical, office, automotive or food service career technical training. The importance of developing supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be discussed. |
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Reasonable Accommodation in Career Technical Training (CTT): Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Hard” Trades
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Easy and Practical Ways to Accommodate and Adapt the “Hard Trades” is Part 1 of a 2-part webinar series that will highlight assistive technology accommodations and other practical adaptations that support both independence and employability for students with disabilities enrolled in the building or construction-related trades. The importance of developing supports that are portable and transferrable into the workplace also will be discussed |
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Case Management and Reasonable Accommodation – What’s the Difference? |
This webinar will discuss
the concepts of reasonable accommodation and case management of health care
needs, describe the relationship between each, provide examples of each, and
discuss related documentation requirements. |
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