All children do best with consistent routines and structure provided in a calm and loving environment. These ingredients are absolutely essential, however, for infants and children with PWS.
This presentation will show you how to create the necessary foundations your baby or young child with PWS needs in order to increase their overall sense of trust, decrease anxiety, and improve behavior in the years ahead. We will specifically focus on how to create Food Security beginning in infancy, how to motivate, how to discipline, the importance of responsibilities and chores, and how to respond to “typical” tantrums. We will also present strategies and techniques that help avoid “typical PWS” tantrums and meltdowns in future years.
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The webinar will be recorded and available for viewing for one week after the live event. You must register in advance to receive the link to the recording. Registration is a two-step process. First you log in to the Event Brite site to pay the nominal fee of $20 for nonmembers and $10 for members. When you receive your confirmation of payment email, there will be a link for you to register at the GoToWebinar site. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH STEPS!If you are using a Smartphone or Tablet to register, you will need to download the GoToWebinar app first.
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Jennifer Bolander has been serving as a Special Education Specialist for PWSA (USA) since October of 2015. She is a graduate of John Carroll University and lives in Ohio with her husband Brad and daughters Kate (17), and Sophia (13) who was born with PWS.
Perry A. Zirkel has written more than 1,500 publications on various aspects of school law, with an emphasis on legal issues in special education. He writes a regular column for NAESP’s Principal magazine and NASP’s Communiqué newsletter, and he did so previously for Phi Delta Kappan and Teaching Exceptional Children.
Evan has worked with the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) since 2007 primarily as a Crisis Intervention and Family Support Counselor. Evans works with parents and schools to foster strong collaborative relationships and appropriate educational environments for students with PWS.
Dr. Amy McTighe is the PWS Program Manager and Inpatient Teacher at the Center for Prader-Willi Syndrome at the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. She graduated from Duquesne University receiving her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education with a focus on elementary education, special education, and language arts.
Staci Zimmerman works for Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of Colorado as an Individualized Education Program (IEP) consultant. Staci collaborates with the PWS multi-disciplinary clinic at the Children’s Hospital in Denver supporting families and school districts around the United States with their child’s Individual Educational Plan.
Founded in 2001, SDLC is a non-profit legal services organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the legal rights of people with disabilities throughout the South. It partners with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Protection and Advocacy (P&A) programs, Legal Services Corporations (LSC) and disability organizations on major, systemic disability rights issues involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the federal Medicaid Act. Recently in November 2014, Jim retired.