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15th ANNUAL EARLY START SYMPOSIUM MATERIALS

• Keynote Presentation: Helping Families in Challenging Times
  David D. Love, MFT
  
  
  • Helping Families in Challenging Times
    
    
• Session 1: Stress Reduction Tools
  David D. Love, MFT
  
  
• Session 1 has no handouts
  
  
• Session 2: Where am I going? Who just touched me? What is coming towards my mouth?
  Communication Strategies to Help Children Make Sense of a Chaotic World
  Maurice Belote, Project Coordinator, California Deaf Blind Services
  
  
  • Understanding Coactive and Tactile Signing
  • Como Entender las Señas Coactivas y las Táctiles
  • Fact Sheet from Project SALUTE: Successful Adaptations for Learning to Use Touch Effectively
    
    
• Session 3: Nutrition Concerns for Problem Feeders
  Dan Loewensteiner, RD
  
  
  • Nutrition Concerns For Problem Feeders
  • High Calorie Ingredients and Recipes for Soft Foods and Shakes
  • Behavioral Approaches for Food Refusal
  • Basics of Food Chaining
  • Tips for Successful Food Chaining
  • Feeding Behaviors
  • Additional Materials
    • Treatment of Food Selectivity Problems
    • Evaluation and Treatment of Feeding Aversion
    • Expanding Children's Diets
    • Food for Thought
    • Food Alike Worksheet
    • Help for Picky Eaters
    • Take Charge of Your Family's Health: Stress-Free Feeding
    • Five Ways to Get Your Kids to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Without a Battle
    • Excerpts from Food Chaining Article
    • Picky Kids, Eating, and Autism
    • The Picky Eater
    • Tips for Pleasing the Picky Eater
      
      
  • Session 4: Toddlers, Transitions and Testing
    Nancy Blakeman, MS.
    
    
    • Authentic Assessment
    • Seven Tips for Surviving Your Child's Developmental Assessment
      
      
  • Session 5: Teaching Skills for Success - What should toddlers know before preschool?
    Paul W Stephany, MFT, BCBA, Stanislaus County Office of Education
    
    
    • The Skills for Success: What should toddlers know before pre-school?
      
      
  • Session 6: Teaching Skills for Success - What should toddlers know before preschool?
    Paul W Stephany, MFT, BCBA, Stanislaus County Office of Education
    
    
    • The Impact of Trauma and Substance Abuse on Brain Development in Children
      
      
  • Session 7: Before Words ... Sounds - The Power of Level One Imitation Skills
    Carrie Lambertson, MA., and Kate Lindberg, SLP
    
    
    • From Notes to Music: Helping Children to go from Babbling to Words
      
      
  • Session 8: Autism - After the Diagnosis: Now What?
    Coleen Sparkman, MA, CCC-SLP and Devon Homme, MA, The Kendall School, and Maren Paris, Parent
    
    
    • Autism - After the Diagnosis: Now What?
      
      
  • Session 9: Sensory Processing
    Debbie Link, OTR
    
    
    • Sensory Processing in Young Children
      
      
  • Session 10: From Research to Culturally Responsive Practices: Dual Language Young Children with Special Needs
    Dana Eagen and EunMi Cho, Ed.d, SEEDS
    
    
    • Considerations for English Language Learners (0-5): Making Concepts Meaningful
    • Many Languages, Many Cultures: Respecting and Responding to Diversity
    • Responding to Linguistic and Cultural Diversity: Recommendations for Effective Early Childhood Education
    • NAEYC: Where we stand on the screening and assessment of young English-language learners
      
      

 

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FIRE SAFETY

A FIRE SAFETY MESSAGE FROM THE STOCKTON FIRE DEPARTMENT

The primary concern of the Stockton Fire Department is safety for everyone, including our children with special needs. The Stockton Fire Department has a special procedure that is intended to provide an extra measure of safety for individuals with special needs. Parents are encouraged to complete and submit a Residential Premise History. This form will provide added information and security for field units who may need to respond to an emergency or other call from your home, in identifying and/or assisting you or your child. It is essential that the location of your child with special needs is known by the first responding unit so they can concentrate their life saving efforts on the area that can make the biggest impact and resolution of the emergency.

To complete your Residential Premise History these steps must be taken:

1. 1. Go to the Stockton Fire Department Web site: http://www.stocktongov.com/fire/
2. 2. Under the Safety section, click the Brochures link.
3. 3. Scroll down to #11 – Fire and Safety for People with Disabilities. Click on the link.
4. 4. Print and fill out in its entirety, the Residential Premise History Form.
5. 5. Mail residential Premise History Form to:
   
   
   City Hall/Stockton Fire Department
   425 N. El Dorado Street
   Stockton, CA 95203
   
   

This information will expire in one year from entry date.

FIRE SAFETY INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES RESIDING OUTSIDE OF STOCKTON

Families are encouraged to contact their local fire department to see if they have a Residential Premise History form. If they don’t have a form, but are interested in having that same type of information on file, you can download FRN’s Residential Premise History form and submit it to your fire department. FRN created this form with input from fire officials.

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RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR AREA

• Recreational Opportunities for Families and Children with Special Needs
• Sports and Recreational Opportunities for Children with Special Needs

 

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TRANSITION TO ADULT SERVICES - CHECKLISTS

• Transition from Special Education to Adult Services Checklist
• Suggested Steps for Investigation of Adult Service Options

 

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BUILDING BRIDGES - TRANSITION FROM THE EARLY START PROGRAM

• Building Bridges: Transitioning from Early Start into the Preschool Years (book) - English version
• Building Bridges: Transitioning from Early Start into the Preschool Years (book) - Spanish version

 

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