PEAL Trainings
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Importance of providing access to the general education curriculum to ALL students
- Methods used to provide access to the general education curriculum across settings
- Getting to know each other
- Building a Network based on our shared experiences
This is a Families to the MAX Training
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the importance of relationships and networking during transition.
- List soft skills they possess and how those skills apply to networking opportunities.
- Describe strategies for successfully building professional and personal relationships.
Minimum time needed:
1 hr
Target Audience:
- Youth and Young Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Identify ways that evaluation, IEP and
progress monitoring can support high
expectations and access to the general
education curriculum - Discuss the significance of the Endrew F.
Supreme Court decision - List strategies for providing access to and
learning of grade level content for
students with complex instructional needs
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Parents will further develop
communication skills to be heard and
understood in school settings. - Parents will further develop teamwork
skills in order to create positive change for
ALL students in school settings.
This is a Families to the MAX Training
Minimum time needed:
1 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- List and define the key principles of IDEA
- Identify the parts of the IEP and the
importance of each one - Discuss ways that families can provide
meaningful input throughout the IEP
process - Prepare a “snapshot” of their child to
provide input during the IEP meeting
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Describe Extended School Year and its
purpose - Identify the factors of eligibility for ESY
- List the services that can be a part of an
ESY program
Minimum time needed:
1 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define friendship – what it looks like, feels
like, and important qualities - Identify barriers, challenges, and ways to
overcome them while making friends - Identify places, groups, locations where
youth might meet and make friends - Identify characteristics of healthy and
unhealthy relationships or friendships - Identify how to recognize who is and is
not a friend
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Youth
- Young Adults
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Review the principles and philosophy regarding the importance of friendship development for people with disabilities
- Review the design and organization of
the booklet - Identify possible barriers to friendship
development - Review and discuss the 3 Guiding
Principles used in the development of the
book - Review strategies for active friendship
facilitation relevant to their role - Generate additional strategies across the 6 Elements of friendship development
Minimum time needed:
1 ½-2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Describe ways in which self-awareness, self-esteem, and positive self-talk relate to healthy relationships
- Identify qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Identify scenarios as healthy or unhealthy and discuss strategies to improve unhealthy relationships
- Describe ways to set personal boundaries
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hours
Target Audience:
- Youth
- Young Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- To empower families to create meaningful
changes for students receiving special
education services - Learn how families have been leaders in
making change in schools - Explore ways to initiate and support
change in schools - List and describe the key steps needed for
effective change - Identify resources to support making
change
This is a Families to the MAX Training
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Identify how IDEA supports inclusive
education - Discuss the benefits of inclusive education
- Explain the importance of Supplementary
Aids and Services - Discuss the importance of presuming
competence in inclusive education - Describe your family’s vision of inclusion
for your child - List the most important things you will
share with your child’s IEP team at the
next meeting
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define Speech, Language, and
Communication - Learn the What, Why, and How of
Communication, including Assistive
Technology (AT) and Augmentative and
Alternative Communication (AAC)
This is a Families to the MAX Training
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Consider systems navigation
- Identify service & funding systems
- Explore eligibility & unmet needs
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- List the services that PEAL provides
- Describe how PEAL educates and
empowers families, professionals, youth,
and young adults - Access PEAL resources
Minimum time needed:
½ -1 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
- Youth and Young
Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define “Presuming Competence” within
the home, school, and community. - Describe approaches to build a path of
high expectations at home, in school with
peers, and with community members. - Identify how presuming competence can
broaden opportunities in all settings.
This is a Families to the MAX Training
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the rights and Procedural Safeguards under IDEA
- Increase awareness of dispute resolution
processes and alternative dispute
resolution - Know where to find information about
rights regarding school discipline,
especially suspension and expulsion of
students with disabilities
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define health literacy
- Describe importance of health literacy for
youth - List ways to enhance youth health literacy
- Describe strategies youth can use to self-
advocate about health literacy
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
- Youth and Young
Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Identify components of self-awareness for
an individual with a disability - Describe the importance of and how to
self-advocate for their wants and needs - Identify ways to effectively communicate
- Describe how sharing their experience can
make an impact on others
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
- Youth and Young
Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define self-determination
- Think about a vision for your future
- Identify ways to put vision into action
- Create vision statements and vision
boards - Identify ways to stay motivated and
focused
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
- Youth and Young
Adults
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
-
Describe the principles of advocacy
-
Discuss ways to identify and clarify the issue(s)
-
Explain the advocacy process and strategies for educational advocacy
-
Define dispute resolution options
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- List and define the three sections of the transition grid
- Explain what information should be included in each section of the transition grid
- Define and provide examples of transition “Goals,” “Activities” and “Services”
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Discuss the importance of having a vision
to guide transition planning - Describe the areas to consider when
transition planning - List resources to support successful
transition outcomes
Minimum time needed:
1 hr or 2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Identify the differences between eligibility
for special education in Early Intervention
and School-Age programs - Understand options for developing an IEP
as a child transitions from Early
Intervention to School-Age - Understand the importance of informed decision making in determining
educational placement
Minimum time needed:
1 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- List and define the key principles of IDEA
- List important facts about the
Reevaluation process - Identify the parts of the IEP and the
importance of each one - Discuss ways that families can provide
meaningful input throughout the IEP
process - Prepare a “snapshot” of their child to
provide input during the IEP meeting
Minimum time needed:
2 hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
*this training is also available in Spanish
Objectives/Description
Participants will be able to:
- Define self-awareness and describe the
importance of youth self-awareness - Discuss why youth should lead their own
IEP meeting and the benefits - Describe ways that students, families, and
other adults can prepare for and support
youth led IEPs - Discuss barriers and challenges in youth
led IEPs and potential solutions
Minimum time needed:
1 ½ hr
Target Audience:
- Families
- Professionals
- Youth and Young
Adults