KUMDC Learning Series Webinars

At KUMDC, we provide services, including webinars, to our ten counties: Brevard, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie. Not able to catch our learning series webinars live? Don't worry! Our webinars are available on demand, click the link below to watch the webinar recording of your choice. Or check out our webinar archive. Any questions? Just send us an email [email protected]. So grab your popcorn, and prepare to learn!

Supporting Students Who Stutter in the Classroom Setting - Featuring Wade Smith, MS, CCC-SLP, KUMDC Speech Language Pathologist

Crisis Prevention and De-Escalation - Featuring Yiliana Puerto, MS, BCBA, KUMDC Behavior Analyst

Typical Language Development K-2 - Featuring Génesis M. Tošić, MS, CCC-SLP, KUMDC Speech Language Pathologist

The ABC's of Behavior - Featuring Melanie Fernandez, MS, BCBA, LBA, KUMDC Behavior Analyst

School Psychological Services - Featuring Michelle Tano, M.Ed., Ed.S., KUMDC School Psychologist

Mentoring: Your Tour Guide Towards Transition - Featuring Damien Hunte, MSEd, KUMDC School Support Officer

Introduction to AAC in the Classroom - Featuring Felicia Selan, KUMDC SLP
Learner outcomes:
❖ identify what AAC is
❖ identify populations who may use AAC
❖ identify the various types of AAC
❖ understand the ways in which AAC can be implemented within the classroom

Financial Literacy: A Classroom Economy Project - Featuring Rita Ellis, MEd, NBCT, KUMDC Instructional Specialist and Cheyney Cushing, MS, KUMDC Behavior Specialist.
This webinar gives attendees a look into a financial literacy classroom project specifically designed for students with significant/complex disabilities. The goal behind teaching how to budget, save for emergencies, invest in the future, and avoid debt to every student ensures they can be as independent as possible within critical life skills.

Utilizing Transition Assessments - Featuring Rita Ellis, MEd, NBCT, KUMDC Instructional Specialist and Cheyney Cushing, MS, KUMDC Behavior Specialist.
How do you map out a successful future for your students with significant disabilities? Join us for a look at a comprehensive collection of age-appropriate assessment tools that support transition planning for students with special needs to prepare for positive post-secondary outcomes. Assessments include the Keiser University Independent Living Skills Assessment (KUILSA), the Pictorial Career Interest, and the ONET Interest Profiler, Work Importance Locator, and Ability Profiler.

Prompts: What Are Prompts and How to Use Them (coming soon!) - Featuring Cesar Rueda, MS, BCBA, LBA, KUMDC Program Director
Learner outcomes:
❖ Identify what a prompt is
❖ Identify when to use prompts
❖ Understand the difference between a stimulus prompt and a response prompt
❖ Describe prompts

Assistive Technology

What is Assistive Technology?

According to Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA), Assistive Technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.

AT can be low-tech: communication boards made of cardboard or fuzzy felt.
AT can be high-tech: special-purpose computers.
AT can be hardware: prosthetics, mounting systems, and positioning devices.
AT can be computer hardware: special switches, keyboards, and pointing devices.
AT can be computer software: screen readers and communication programs.
AT can be inclusive or specialized learning materials and curriculum aids.
AT can be specialized curricular software.
AT can be much more—electronic devices, wheelchairs, walkers, braces, educational software, power lifts, pencil holders, eye-gaze and head trackers, and much more.

Assistive technology helps people who have difficulty speaking, typing, writing, remembering, pointing, seeing, hearing, learning, walking, and many other things. Different disabilities require different assistive technologies.