3 rd Annual I’m Determined Youth Summit

1. 3rd Annual I’m Determined Youth Summit

2. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Green Group Topics: • Assistive Technology • Accommodations

3. Topic # 1: Assistive Technology • Example: demonstrate an Alpha Smart • Hands on technology fair. • Demonstrations • Explain where and how to purchase/ borrow assistive technology.

4. Topic: Assistive Technology (con’t.) • A “Day in your shoes” day where a non-disabled student has to use all the assistive technologies used by a person with a disability while experiencing a certain disability for the day. • Have the youth summit participants go to schools and teach students and teachers about assistive technology that is available and how it works.

5. Topic # 2: Accommodations • Have the administrators create an assembly to inform all students and teachers about Accommodations. • Explain to the students what a 504/ IEP is and what it does and who is eligible for it.

6. Topic: Accommodations (con’t.) • Have the youth summit participants go to schools and teach students and teachers about accommodations.

7. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Red Group Topics: • Famous People/Leaders with a disability • Disability Laws & Rights

8. Topic # 1: Famous people/leaders with a disability • Matching Game • Jeopardy • Bingo • True and False game

9. Topic: Famous people/leaders • Robin Williams- ADD • Edger Allan Poe- Bipolar • Dav Pilkey (Children’s Author)- ADHD • Stevie Wonder- Blind

10. Topic: Famous people/leaders • Ray Charles- Blind • NY Governor Patterson- Blind • Tom Cruise- Dyslexia • Michael J. Fox- Parkinson Disease

11. Topic # 2: Disability laws and rights • Documentaries • Guest Speakers who specifically deal with legislation of disabilities (Mooney: Project Eye-to-Eye; Rebecca Harris works with President Obama on Disability commission) • Jeopardy

12. Topic : Disability laws/rights • Memoir of experiences dealing with rights/laws

13. Topic: Disability Laws/Rights • 504 plan • IDEA • Disability History Awareness Month • Americans with Disabilities Act • IEP

14. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Orange Group Topics: • Accessibility • Transition

15. Topic # 1: Accessibility • Put students in another person’s shoes • Ex. Blindfold someone and have a guide dog guide them around the school • Sign language lesson • Bullying assembly

16. Topic: Accessibility • Disability awareness assembly • Best Buddies club • Kids with disabilities matched up with other students/Big Brothers, Big sisters… • Spread the word to end the word • Awareness banner for people to sign • Stop, look and listen to a person • The golden rule

17. Topic: Accessibility • Basic Skills class that teaches study skills needed for the future

18. Topic # 2: Transition • Discuss the different transitions people make during their lives such as a new home, new school, new grade level, etc. • Go speak to elementary and middle school kids with IEPs and talk about the transition to the next level • Talk about your experience with transition to another student • Have alumni come back and talk about the transition from high school to College and talk about college accommodations • Talk about different views of how people see certain things

19. Topic: Transition • Take people to their desired colleges and show them the accessible routes • Seniors mentoring Freshmen or rising Freshmen • Transition teacher • Career Pathways program/class to help with transition from high school to college

20. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Blue Group Topics: • Self-advocacy • Goal setting

21. Topic # 1: Self-advocacy • Role playing activity • Educate yourself and others • Announcement activities • Video

22. Topic: Self-advocacy • Disability assembly • Find your: • Learning style • Strengths • Things to improve

23. Topic # 2: Goal Setting • The PATH • Long term goal • Each block represents a step towards your goal • The Sun • Long or Short term goal in school • Accomplishments

24. Self-Advocacy & Goal Setting • Go to the I’m determined website. • www.imdetermined.org

25. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Purple Group Topics: • Attitudes/Stereotypes • Disability History

26. Topic # 1: Attitudes/Stereotypes • Teach and Use Person First Language • Learn how disability can affect: • Hearing • Speaking • Seeing • Walking

27. Topic: Attitudes/Stereotypes • Hearing- people find it difficult to hear what other people are saying. • Speaking – it can be hard for people to get their words out for people to understand them. • Seeing- people can’t get visual information. • Walking- people that have limited motor skills have difficulties moving around.

28. Topic # 2: Disability History • Teach students about disability history along with typical history lessons. • You could use some movies that have actors with disabilities. • You could use a time line on disabilities.

29. Topic: Disability History • Have the student that has a disability talk about their disability. • Have the class do a research paper on a individual disability. • Have an empathy day, were people learn about disability.

30. Topic: Disability History • Teach people about famous people with disabilities: • Helen Keller • Franklin D Roosevelt • Tom Cruise • Albert Einstein • Winston Churchill

31. 2010 I’m Determined Youth Summit: Small Groups Orange&RedGroup Topics: Self-Esteem Understanding Disability/Acceptance

32. :D Self-Esteem • Be sympathetic! • Show you care when we come to you with problems • Praise us for the work we DO accomplish ! • Teach us how to work with our strengths!

33. :D Self-esteem • Be a good Support System & Resource! • Believe in the student as an individual! • If the teacher thinks we can then we think we can too. • Do activities to find out what each student likes & allowing them to embrace it!

34. :D Self-esteem • Teach others about people with disabilities that have been successful. • Show how others have embraced their disability so we can strive to do the same. • Teach us in an environment that works best for us.

35. :D Self-esteem • Show movies or read books to show that not everybody is the same. • Give uplifting advice to each individual. • Help us organize our thoughts. • Show confidence in us!

36. :D Self-esteem • Teach me how I can use my strengths to my advantage. • What kind of jobs could I have when I grow up. • Be proud of who we are!

37. :D Understanding Disability/Acceptance • Teach us how to self-advocate for ourselves. • Give us the tools to help us succeed. • Be flexible to your students needs! • Teach us about all the resources available we need to succeed. Example: Share the DVD of “I’m Tyler” with your class.

38. :D Understanding Disability/Acceptance • Let us tell our story! • Telling others our story helps us understand ourselves. • Inform us about our disability. • Use teaching tools on websites. • www.imdetermined.org • Ask us questions about ourselves . • Don’t assume!