Leading for differentiation: Growing teachers who grow kids

"Leading for Differentiation lays out the reflective thinking and action-oriented steps necessary to launch a system of continuous professional learning, culture building, and program assessment that will allow differentiation to take root and flourish in every classroom.

"Leading the change to a differentiated school means creating an environment in which each individual feels valued, challenged, supported, and part of a team working together for success. In this book, school leaders will learn how to set the course for positive change and create the structural supports that will help teachers grow as differentiators so that their students will thrive as learners." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Visual Supports at IRCA

Wondering where to find examples of visual supports? The Indiana Resource Center for Autism has many on their website. From holidays and celebrations to school and work systems, you can find a wealth of support at IRCA.

To search their collection, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/visualsupports

Mobile App Monday - Autism Core Skills

"Autism Core Skills is an innovative educational platform built by autism experts. We are on your team to ensure every child with autism reaches their fullest potential!

"Our lessons teach both academic and social skills, from preschool through first grade Common Core standards. Academic lessons cover reading and math skills such as colors, shapes, rhyming, spelling, and addition. Two-player social lessons cover the communication skills of expressing preferences, staying on topic, and categories. Games teach students to share, take turns, and follow rules."

Want more information about this app? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autism-core-skills-curriculum/id1065012646

Training for Indiana's First Responders

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism (IRCA) believes in the importance of awareness training about autism spectrum disorders for first responders.   IRCA is committed to supporting the training of law enforcement officers, fire fighters, EMT’s and other first responders. To address this need, IRCA has worked closely with Answers for Autism in Indiana, to receive partial funding for the development of the original training materials in 2006 and the subsequent updating of materials now available.

To learn more about this topic, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/first-responder-training

To check out the training materials from CeDIR, email us at cedir@indiana.edu or via our Check Out Items webform at:
https://www.iidc.indiana.edu//index.php?pageId=2507

Autism Awareness Month: Tips for Working with Individuals on the Autism Spectrum

April is Autism Awareness Month, and the Indiana Resource Center for Autism, in collaboration with the Autism Society of Indiana, has come up with some tips to get you started. Working with people on the spectrum can be challenging, but remember that everyone is different and some tips may not apply to some people.

To read the entire list of tips, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/autism-awareness-month-a-facts-andtips-for-working-with-individuals-on-the-autism-spectrum

Autism in Love

The acclaimed documentary film featured on the PBS show "Independent Lens"

Saturday, April 23, 2016
2:30 p.m. (Doors open at 2 p.m)

City Hall Council Chambers
In the Showers Building, Suite 115
401 N. Morton Street
Bloomington, IN

This event is FREE, but seating is limited. Please register online at http://go.iu.edu/197T

This highly acclaimed, insightful, and touching documentary, directed by Matt Fuller, brings awareness to the challenges of dating and love for people who have an autism spectrum disorder. "Autism in Love" is simultaneously sorrowful and heart wrenching while also encouraging and hopeful. It's a raw, sometimes emotional look into the lives of four people with ASD who share their frustrations, pain, and successes in trying to find, date, love, and connect to someone understands and appreciates them.

Doors will open at 2 p.m. Questions and answers with Ms. Nebeker and Mr. Hamrick, a couple featured in the movie, will follow at 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

For questions about film content, please contact Melissa Dubie at mdubie@indiana.edu or call the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at 812-855-6508.

Suggested Audience
Educators, Family Members, Parents, Caregivers, Adults with ASD

Accommodations
The Indiana Institute on Disability and Community is committed to providing equal access to this event for all participants. If you have questions about accessibility or have a request for alternative formats or other accommodations, please contact Lisa Bidwell (lbidwell@indiana.edu) at 812-855-6481 with your request at least three weeks in advance of the event. Deadline for an accommodations request for this workshop is April 1, 2016.

Mobile App Monday - Spring Changes

"Spring Changes is a 32-page app for children aged 3-7. The most important changes of the spring season are told in brief, simple words and shown in beautiful seasonal photographs. This sensory-based exploration of the seasons is enhanced by textural backgrounds (leaves, clouds, sheep fur, and bird feathers, for example) that fill the pages behind the main photos and text. This is science for the early childhood set: brief text that teaches basic concepts and beautiful photographs that encourage children’s own observations of the world." -iTunes

For more information about this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id516885900

Library hours for tomorrow

CeDIR will be closing early tomorrow at noon. We will re-open at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, March 14th.

Library materials may still be returned to the receptionist at the Institute from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you'd like to check something out tomorrow, we'll be here from 8:00 a.m. to noon.

Our brains are like computers!: Exploring social skills and social cause and effect with children on the autism spectrum

Our brains are like computers!: Exploring social skills and social cause and effect with children on the autism spectrum "uses computer metaphors and visual diagrams to help children on the autism spectrum to understand how their words and actions can affect other people. Easily identifiable computing and social networking metaphors are used to explain how memories are saved in the brain, like files in computer folders, and how, just as files can be shared and downloaded on the internet, people learn about you by sharing their positive and negative impressions with each other. The author explains why certain actions may be 'liked' or 'disliked' by others, and offers guidance on appropriate and inappropriate social behavior." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

In a different key

"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi, became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family’s odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it." -publisher

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Autism Tracker Pro

"Autism Tracker can be life changing for families with an autistic child. Explore Autism. Track what matters to your child and your family. Use the visual calendar and multi-item graphs to view and discuss patterns. Share individual events or entire screens with your team using Dropbox, email or Twitter (Twitter lets you set up closed groups). Now, track several persons on one device." -iTunes

For more information on this app, please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id478225574

Autism spectrum disorder in mid and later life

"Bringing together international academics and professionals who are actively researching and working in the field, [Autism spectrum disorder in mid and later life] covers the issues faced by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) in mid and later life.

Including a range of personal, academic and clinical perspectives, the book considers historical and contemporary perspectives on autism, including diagnosis, developmental outcomes and life course issues. Attention is given to medical, care and psychological issues that arise as people with ASD age, such as declining cognitive function and speech and communication issues." -publisher

Interested? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check it out or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Free Parent Group Meetings

These parent support group meetings are free and open to the public. However, the content will be geared toward family members of individuals who have a diagnosis along the autism spectrum. The information will not be geared toward professionals. If you are a professional and know of family members in your area that may benefit from such a meeting, you are encouraged to forward the relevant information.

To view the entire list, please visit:
http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/pages/parent-group-meetings