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Creating Effective Ministries for Children and Teens with Developmental Disabilities: Gain the Confidence Lose the Fear

Join us in this workshop to understand the importance of integrating theology with disability awareness, including insights on autism, sensory issues, and working with individuals with intellectual disabilities. Gain confidence to create effective and inclusive ministries.

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Creating Effective Ministries for Children and Teens with Developmental Disabilities: Gain the Confidence Lose the Fear

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  1. Creating Effective Ministries for Children and Teens with Developmental Disabilities: Gain the ConfidenceLose the Fear

  2. Notes

  3. Note

  4. Learning Objectives for this Workshop

  5. PART ONE

  6. Why We Are Here

  7. Why Theology Needs Disability

  8. Why Theology Needs Disability (continued)

  9. A Change in Values

  10. Why Theology Needs Disability

  11. Worst Slide Ever Made is Pending

  12. Assumption: We Are One with Our Parish

  13. Autism By The Numbers

  14. Autism By The Numbers (con’t)

  15. Autism By The Numbers

  16. Autism Spectrum Disorders

  17. Autism Spectrum Disorders

  18. Asperger’s Syndrome

  19. More on Asperger’s Syndrome

  20. Issues of Sensory Integration: “1 in 6 children experiences sensory symptoms strong enough to affect everyday life functions” (Sensory Processing Disorder Scientific Work Group)

  21. Elaborating Upon Sensory Issues

  22. More on Sensory Issues

  23. Focusing on Intellectual Disability Working with individuals with ID found by volunteers I have worked with or trained to be one of the most challenging issues (feared)

  24. Persons with I.D. May Have:

  25. Intellectual Functioning

  26. Abstract Thinking

  27. Concrete thinking

  28. Concrete Thinking (con’t)

  29. Concrete thinking (con’t)

  30. From Deficits to Abilities

  31. Control Over Emotions/Behaviour(some examples)

  32. So Where Does All of This Information Lead Us?

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