ESC 12 Staff Web ~ Gina Holman

Ms. Holman is the education specialist for speech-language pathology and assistive technology and will be coordinating training for Related Services personnel for Region 12. She will also serve on the team for providing training in the area of autism. She brings to Region 12 eighteen years of experience as a speech-language pathologist in the public schools of Texas. She is also the Region 12 representative to the Texas Assistive Technology Network (TATN) and is a TSHA Task Force on Eligibility trainer for the Language Eligibility Template and the Fluency Template.

Please check out the following sessions for all SLPs, AT, Related Services, and DHH personnel. Hope to see you soon!

Always check the online catalog at www.esc12.net for the latest information.

DATE	TIME 9:00 – 4:00 unless noted	LOCATION ESC 12, Waco unless noted	SESSION NUMBER	TITLE	TSHA CREDITS pending *approved
Aug. 9			33680	Ready, Set, Go: Training for New Evaluation Personnel (Diags, LSSPs, SLPs)	*
Aug. 9			34789	Play & Learn : A Motor-Based Preschool Curriculum for Children of All Abilities/ AbleNet Inc. Consultant	*
Sept. 13	9:00 – 12:00		34899	SLP Roundtable
Sept. 16	9:00 - 12:00	Webinar	TBA	Webinar: Treatment of Speech Sound Disorders/ Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Program Director, TTU Health Sciences Center	*
Sept. 23	4:30 – 8:00		35171	TETN: TWU SLP Cycle 6 Information Meeting
Oct. 11			34863	Building Literacy and Communication Skills for Students with ASD and Other Severe Communication and Language Disabilities/ Patti King-DeBaun, M.S., CCC-SLP, Consultant, Creative Communicating	*
Oct. 22 Oct. 23			34862	Visual Phonics: See the Sound (2-day workshop)/ Vicki Alford, Teacher of the Deaf, Reading Specialist, and ICLI Resource Specialist	*
Oct. 28	9:00 - 12:00	Webinar	TBA	Webinar: Classroom-Based Language Intervention/ Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Program Director, TTU Health Sciences Center
Nov. 3	3:00 – 5:00		34864	Ethics for the SLP and Audiologist	*
Nov. 10			34801	The SLPs Role in RtI: A Close Look at Tier 1 Classroom Support and Co-Teaching/ Judy Rudebusch, M.S., CCC-SLP, Consultant, Learning Legacy Inc.	*
Nov. 11	9:00 - 12:00	Webinar	TBA	Webinar: Making Friends Shouldn’t Be This Difficult (ASD)/ Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Program Director, TTU Health Sciences Center	*
Nov. 15 Dec. 6			34866	Teaching Literacy to Students with Severe Cognitive Disabilities (2-day workshop)
Jan. 6	9:00 - 12:00	Webinar	TBA	Webinar: An SLPs Guide to Syndromes and Spectrum Disorders/ Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP, Associate Professor and Program Director, TTU Health Sciences Center


Please go to www.esc12.net to see full details of the listed workshops. While these workshops have been selected as those with TSHA credits or of high interest to SLPs, there are many other workshops that you may find of benefit. Please browse the online catalog and check back often as new events may be added!

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SERVICES TRAINING EVENTS

DATE	TIME 9:00 – 4:00 unless noted	LOCATION ESC 12, Waco unless noted	SESSION NUMBER	TITLE	TPTA CREDITS pending *approved
Aug. 9			34789	Play & Learn : A Motor-Based Preschool Curriculum for Children of All Abilities/ AbleNet Inc. Consultant
Sept. 13	1:00 – 4:00		34901	AT/Related Service Roundtable
Sept. 15 Oct. 20 Dec. 7			34968	Assistive Technology Team Training
Sept. 20			34798	Effective Strategies for Functional Seating and Access/ Lisa Rotelli, Seating Specialist, Adaptive Switch Labs, Inc.	*
Nov. 1	9:00 – 12:00	May also be viewed in district upon request	34877	TATN/TETN: Accommodations and Assistive Technology/ TEA panel

DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING TRAINING EVENTS

DATE	TIME 9:00 – 4:00 unless noted	LOCATION ESC 12, Waco unless noted	SESSION NUMBER	TITLE	CREDITS pending *approved
Oct. 22 Oct. 23			34862	Visual Phonics: See the Sound (2-day workshop)/ Vicki Alford, Teacher of the Deaf, Reading Specialist, and ICLI Resource Specialist
Dec. 2	1:00 – 4:00	May also be viewed in district upon request	34803	TETN: DHH Issues for Parent Advisors
Feb. 10	9:00 – 12:00	May also be viewed in district upon request	TBA	TETN: Early Intervention Update
Feb. 19			TBA	TBA – tentative date for Sat. workshop on Interpreter Skills Training

OTHER CE OPPORTUNITIES

19th Annual Texas State Autism Conference,Oct. 7 - 9, 2010, Corpus Christi
TSHA 2011Annual Conference, March 3 - 5, 2011, Houston

SLP & AT LOAN LIBRARIES

We have speech tests available for check-out from our SLP Loan Library and a range of devices in our AT Loan Library. For loans please call or e-mail to check availability of desired items. Use the links to the left to see the inventories. New items to be added soon.