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Conference Schedule

Conference at a Glance

	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
Registration	11:00 am – 6:30 pm	7:30 am – 5:00 pm	7:30 am – 10:00 am
Program Sessions	Concurrent Sessions: 1:00 pm – 7:15 pm	Concurrent Sessions: 8:00 am – 4:45 pm	Concurrent Sessions: 8:30 am – 11:45 am
Exhibit Hall	2:00 pm – 6:30 pm	7:30 am – 5:00 pm Free time to Explore Exhibits: 7:00 am – 8:00 am Breakfast! 9:30 am – 10:00 am 12:00 am – 1:15 pm LUNCH! 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Snacks! 4:45 pm – 5:00 pm	Closed
Special Activities! ALL are Welcome!	Photo Booth! 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Student CEC Silent Auction: Exhibit Hall 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm	General Session, Grand Ballroom A/B 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Disability College Fair 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Photo Booth! 9:30 am – 3:30 pm Student CEC Silent Auction, Exhibit Hall 9:00 am – 4:45 pm Grand Hall Foyer: Art Exhibit 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Exhibit Hall: Student Poster Sessions Session 1: 1:15-2:45 Session 2: 3:15-4:45 Yes I CAN! Awards: Carroll-Ford Room 3:15 pm
Meetings	IHE Meeting, Brown Room 8:30 am – 2:00 pm MSU Alt Cert Meeting, Laffoon Room; 11:30 am – 12:30 pm State Advisory Council Meeting, Dogwood Room 4:00– 8:00 pm KYCASE Board Meeting, Brown Room; 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm KY TED Meeting, McCreary Room; 6:00 pm KY Pioneers Meeting, Suite 746, East Tower; 7:00 pm	Student CEC Meeting, Breathitt Room 8:00 am -9:30 am Special Ed Low Incidence Consultants, Wilson Room, 8:00 am -4:00 pm KYDEC Meeting, Exhibit Hall, DEC Table 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm State Advisory Council Public Hearing and Business Session, Sampson Room 1:15 pm – 4:45 pm VSA Kentucky Board Meeting, Willis Room 5:00 pm CCBD General Meeting, Jones Room 5:00 pm	CEC Annual Membership Meeting, Suite 346, East Tower 7:30 am – 8:30 am State Advisory Panel Business Session, Sampson Room 8:30 am – 12:00 pm KYCEC Executive and General Board Meeting, Suite 346 12:00 – 3:00 pm

Sunday Sessions

Floor/Room	1:00 – 4:00 PM	4:15 – 7:15 PM
2 Carroll-Ford	New Teacher Institute Maciel & Miller-Horn
3 Morrow	Working Together - Engaging Preschool Teachers and Teachers of the Visually Impaired for a Common Goal Mullen & Sinclair-Morris
1 Laffoon	Immediate and Developmental Effects of Prenatal Drug and Substance Exposure Hart	4:15-5:45 Building Social Skills to Last a Lifetime Williams & Lovett & York
		6:00-7:15 Ready or Not... Smooth Transition from Preschool to Kindergarten Stults & McCray & Deep
1 Sampson	1:00-2:30 Make Art with Clay! Bock-Freeman	4:15-7:15 West African Drum, Dance, and Stories: Holistic Learning Acker & Koivogui
	2:45-4:00 The Art Of Collage Layne-Banks
1 Wilkinson	All Day, Every Day: Embedding Systematic Instruction in Early Childhood Classrooms Hardy	4:15-5:45 Aiming for Success Brown

2 Breathitt	Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CEIS) and Comprehensive Coordinated Early Intervening Services (CCEIS) Slone, Thacker, Miller & Compton	4:15-5:45 Course Codes and the Alternative Course of Study Leading to the Alternate Diploma Sharp & Linton & Griffiths
		6:00-7:15 Indicator 13 Compliance Review Document Radder & Sharp
2 Clements	Increasing Compliance Using Reinforcement Strategies Ferguson & Miracle	Setting up a Highly Structured Classroom Ferguson & Leach
2 Combs-Chandler	Promising Practice: A Universally-Designed Vocabulary Lesson with Differentiated Activities and Assessments Stultz	4:15-5:45 Engaging Readers Using Game Shows (Updated!) Mahoney
		6:00-7:15 The Classroom Connection of Sight Words and American Sign Language Woodrow & Keesey
2 Nunn	Five Easy Brain-Based Strategies to Help Build Self-Control and Self-Regulation Howell & Linscott	4:15-5:45 SpEd Tech Hahn & Langley & Newton
		6:00-7:15 What is SPP/APR? White & Woolums
2 Willis	Writing with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Davis	4:15-5:45 Developing Listening Skills in Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing LaFavers
		6:00-7:15 Auditory Processing Disorders: What is it and How Can we Help? Manche
3 Beckham	Explicit Instruction- How to Design Math Review that Sticks using Retrieval Practices Snowball	Unpacking Math for Students with Disabilities Chapman-Johnson & Hawkins-Lear & Wells
3 Coe	So I’ve got this kid... Classroom Based Intervention for Children with Autism! Howard	Strategies for Success: Working with Children with Autism Matney
3 French	Positive, Preventive, Powerful: Evidence-based Strategies for Improving Student Behavior Tomorrow Sweigart & Landrum & Cooper	4:15-5:45 Consistently Inconsistent Fightmaster
		6:00-7:15 The PBIS Classroom: Developing a Multi-Tiered Approach to Classroom Management McClure
3 Jones	1:00-2:30 Being a Trauma Informed Teacher: A Vital Knowledge Set for Today's Teachers Hutton	4:15-5:45 (REPEATED SESSION) Being a Trauma Informed Teacher: A Vital Knowledge Set for Today's Teachers Hutton
	2:45-4:00 Mindfulness in the Inclusive Classroom Embury, Waterbury, Beers, Columbia-Embury & Clarke
3 McCreary	1:00-2:30 How “Plan, Do, Study, Act” Can Get You Your Heart’s Desire Pack	4:15-5:45 Using Assessment to Differentiate Instruction Redecker & Miller
	2:45-4:00 Developing GRIT and Growth Mindset to Improve Student Learning Keesey	6:00-7:15 TED Meeting
3 Segell	Reaching Reluctant Readers and Writers Groenwoldt	4:15-5:45 Microscopes, Maps & Momentum: Developing Literacy Skills in Students Delano & Putman & Stone
		6:00-7:15 Developing Literacy Skills through Storytelling Sexton
3 Stanley	1:00-2:30 Safety Strategies: Detection, Prevention, and Response to Child Abuse Grey	4:15-5:45
	2:45-4:00 UDL 101- What the Heck is UDL and How Can it Help Increase Student Engagement? Pusateri	6:00-7:15 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Strategies: Accessing the Curriculum Bauder
3 Stopher	The Co-Teaching Tango: Practical Components of Developing Effective Co-Teaching Partnerships & Practices McClure	Co-Teaching Math to the Max! Crabtree & Mouser & Helton
3 Taylor	1:00-2:30 Implementing a Peer Buddy Program and How it Impacts Every Child Brady & Brown	4:15-5:45 Addressing Transition Needs of Students with Spina Bifida Singh
	2:45-4:00 How to Make the Most out of Community Based Instruction Brown & Brady	6:00-7:15 Replace Tears with Tiers Wells & Slone & McKinney

Monday Sessions

Floor/Room	8:00-9:30	1:15-2:45	3:15-4:45
1 Laffoon	Intentional Literacy Learning in Preschool Michael	Embedding Math Throughout the Classroom--The ECERS-3 Style Lovett & York	Preschool MTSS: Intervening with Behavior in a Developmentally Appropriate Way Deep & Stults & McCray
1 Wilkinson	Early Recognition of Autism Spectrum Disorders Antle	Reading Fun for Everyone! Hawkins-Lear, Rinaldi, Crim, Hatter & Johns	Early Childhood Assistive Technology Trends: What do we know? Rutland & Hawkins-Lear
2 Breathitt	Student CEC Annual Meeting Hawkins-Lear	Autism Guidance Document Overview Grable & Coles	Yes, Students with Disabilities can be Identified for Gifted and Talented Services Anderson
2 Brown	KYREADS: I'm an Administrator. What am I Missing About Dyslexia? Slone	Self-instruction in the Classroom, Home, and Community Spriggs, Shepley, Ortiz, Barnett, Tincher & Hogue	Supporting Twice Exceptional Students and English Learners with Disabilities: Low Tech and High Tech Supports Clarke, Columbia-Embury & Embury
2 Carroll-Ford	KYCEC Mini-Grants! Crites	LEAP! The Net Will Appear Christopher	Yes I Can! Award Ceremony Samples
2 Clements	Using EBPs in Math for Students with MSD Courtade & Lingo & Gurney	3 Hour Session Accessing Curriculum for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities Price & Willoughby
2 Combs-Chandler	Multi-Sensory Reading Approaches Miller & Redecker	Multi-Sensory Approach to Reading Watson & Roberts	Inspiring & Engaging Diverse Learners through Poetry Letchford
2 Nunn	Psychoeducational Reports 101 Reed, Hill, Atchison, Houk, Mitchell, Mullins & Pollett	3 Hour Session Project-Based Learning: Inductive Thinking with Surface Area of Rectangular Prisms Stultz
2 Willis	Spectacular Literacy Links VanConia	Using Trauma Informed Care Approaches with Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing Niehaus & Simpson	Parent Engagement: What Families with Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing REALLY Need! Dowd
3 Beckham	Number Talks: Building Numerical Reasoning Womack & Gaddie	Working Memory and its Effects on Students with Mathematical Disabilities Payne	Hands-on Transition in Franklin County: A Collaboration with Schools and Voc Rehab! Graves & Theisen
3 Coe	District Autism Support Team - A Tiered Approach Burris, Caswell, Wetton, Epperson, Wilfert & Myers	Intensive Communication Programming for Students with ASD the Public School Setting Pennington & Williams & Montgomery	Progress Monitoring Made Easy Brummett
3 French	Resilience Can Be Taught! 10 Tools to Motivate ANY Student Magleby	(REPEATED SESSION) Resilience Can Be Taught! 10 Tools to Motivate ANY Student Magleby	High Leverage Practices for Special Education-Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Bronger & Robertson & Clare
3 Jones	Behavior Differentiation Doesn’t Have to Be Hard Ball	Trauma Informed Practices-Building on Strengths Brogli-Opell & Antle	Taste Great Less Filling: How to Have the Best of Both Worlds in the Classroom Dortch
3 McCreary	Using Research to Guide Your Lesson Plans Spriggs & Ault & Bell	Promoting Grit, Growth Mindset, and Metacognition in our Students Clemson	Shaping Mindsets in the Classroom Gaddie & Womack
3 Morrow	The Role of Vision in Learning Bowersox & Young	Active Learning Howard & Hardin	Teaching Writing...and LOVING it! Boone & Newton
3 Segell	Google Yourself Boone	Specially Designed Instruction: The Hows & Whys of Delivering SDI in Reading Comprehension and Written Expression McClure	Argumentative Writing and Secondary Students with Disabilities: Creating Real-World Habits and Successes Crawford & McClure
3 Stanley	Increasing Student Engagement with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) Pusateri & Goodloe	Embed Communication with Severe Communication Needs Throughout the Day Johnson & Stone	Destroy the Box and Open Your Minds to the Latest Technology Putman & Delano
3 Stopher	What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About Co-Teaching Pack	Using Reciprocal Peer Coaching to Provide Performance Feedback for Co-teachers Whitney & Cooper	De Bono's Six Hats Thinking Strategy for All Content Areas Mahoney
3 Taylor	Pat's Perks: Coffee and Friends Make the Perfect Blend: A School-Based Enterprise Blakeman & Lindon & Fulks	Project Based Learning - Business Exploration Chamberlain	Promoting K-12 Transition Planning through Self-Determination, Communicative Competence and Self-Directed IEP Meetings Hall & Land

Tuesday Sessions

Floor/Room	8:30-10:00	10:15-11:45
1 Laffoon	Math in the Preschool Classroom Baugh	Rethinking Calendar Time: Making Group Activities Meaningful and Engaging for Children (and Teachers!) McLaren
1 Wilkinson	Response to Intervention for Families McCray & Stults & Deep	Everyone Gets a Turn - Welcoming Students with Vision Loss and Complex Needs in All Preschool Activities Mullen & Miller & Lusher
2 Breathitt	Special Transportation as a Related Service: The Basics Farra & Bartholomew & Wyatt	Top Formal Complaint Trends Starkey & Parsons
2 Brown	New Understanding: Vision of Shared Creativity Choe & Rowe	Resources: Cultural Accessibility for the Classroom Rowe
2 Carroll-Ford	KYREADS: Dyslexia...The Only "Four Letter Word" You CAN Write in an IEP Slone	Annual District Determinations for Special Education Thacker & McCowan & Patterson
2 Clements	Literacy in Low Incidence Young & Newton & Phelps	Coding in Low Incidence Newton
2 Combs-Chandler	Experience Dyslexia Steltenkamp	Understanding and Addressing Dyslexia Steltenkamp & Noe
2 Nunn	Supporting and Measuring Growth for Students With Learning Differences Jung
2 Willis	“Growing Your Own” Teacher of the Deaf/Hard of Hearing (the Why and How) Peavler & Gremp	Addressing Teacher Shortage – Finding Special Ed and Related Service Teachers Purcell & Ellis
3 Beckham	Math Classroom Challenges for All Middle Grades and Secondary Students Allen	Math Instruction for All Learners: Using Manipulatives & Technology to Build Mastery of Abstract Concepts McClure
3 Coe	Autism - From Red Flags to Intervention and the Steps In-Between Cooley-Cook & Miller	Autism – Services, Resources, and More Cooley-Cook & Miller
3 French	Organized Chaos: Creating Structured, Yet Flexible Learning Environment Chapman-Johnson & Hawkins-Lear
3 Jones	Social Skills Instruction in the Classroom Antle	The Be Project: Mindfulness Practices for Learning Davies & Nelson
3 McCreary	Engaging Students with Disabilities - Using Response Cards to Increase Engagement Clarke & Columbia-Embury & Embury	Co-Teaching for Increased Engagement for Students with and without Disabilities: Using Parallel Teaching, Station Teaching, and Alternative Teaching Columbia-Embury & Clarke & Biddle
3 Morrow	Back to the Future: Using Antecedent Strategies to Promote Positive Behavior Delano & Stone	#OCD Pack
3 Segell	Kentucky Literacy Intervention Project (K-LIP) 6^th -12^th Wininger & Slone	Orton Gillingham Methodology MacNiven
3 Stanley	Ensuring Friendships and Academic Engagement for Students with the Most Complex Communication Needs Logsdon & Land & Newton	Creating a K-3 Core Communication Classroom Land, Kearns, O'Regan Kleinert & Page
3 Stopher	Specially Designed Instruction in the Co-Taught Classroom Redecker & Miller	ABRI - Implementation of Effective MTSS Robertson, Bronger, Clare, Martin & Whitney
3 Taylor	Transitioning from High School Services to Vocational Rehabilitation Services: What Teachers Need to Know Wolf Whaley & Hall	Literacy Skills - Interactive Experience Books Howard