Meeting the Needs of Girls with Disabilities
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Posted by Web Team, November 21, 2005
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Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change Connecting Simmons to the Community and the Community to Simmons presents
The Girls’ Coalition of Greater Boston
2005-2006 Professional Development Series on Strength to Strength: Maximizing Girls’ Potentials
Friday, December 2, 2005
Linda K. Paresky Conference Center
Meeting the Needs of Girls with Disabilities
All Girls Welcome
7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Registration and Networking
8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Overview forum, open to all
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Hands-on training, geared to program providers
Purpose: This forum/training will raise awareness of the needs of girls with disabilities in girls-only and coed programs; and also build skills in making programs for girls more inclusive of girls with disabilities. The term “girls with disabilities” means (1) girls with mental retardation, hearing impairment, speech or language impairment, visual impairment, serious emotional disturbance, orthopedic impairment, autism, traumatic brain injury, other health impairments, or specific learning disabilities; and (2) girls who, by reason thereof, need special education and related services (definition adapted from the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).
Presenters
Lori Downs and her 11-year-old daughter Alycia, Girl Scout Troop 1869
Jammie Wellington, Roxbury Community College/Partners for Youths with Disabilities
Regina Snowden, Partners for Youth with Disabilities
Charlotte “Dee” Spinkston, Urban PRIDE
Susan Tufts, BOSTnet/LOYD (Leading to Opportunities for Youth with Disabilities)
Trainers
Wendy Manus and Jami Cope, Outdoor Explorations
We will address questions such as:
- What do we mean when we say “disabilities”? What is “people first” language?
- What is the big picture of programming for girls with disabilities in the Greater Boston area?
- What are some of the specific issues and risk factors impacting girls with disabilities?
- Are we providing inclusive programs for girls? What can we do to make programs more inclusive?
- What can we do to encourage more dialogue between the local “girls’ world” and the disabilities field?
Resources on girls to be highlighted at a resource table.
This event is free to Girls’ Coalition members; the cost to nonmembers is $10. For up-to-date information and/or to register for this event, visit www.girlscoalition.org and click on Events & Trainings. Please RSVP by November 29.
Free with a Simmons ID-however you must RSVP to diane.hammer@simmons.edu
Cosponsored by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay’s Today’s Girls…Tomorrow’s Leaders Initiative, the J.E. & Z.B. Butler Foundation, and the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change.
