From dlarocco at hartford.edu Tue Mar 2 07:58:13 2010 From: dlarocco at hartford.edu (Diana J. LaRocco) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:58:13 -0500 Subject: [Dec-advocacy] ACTION ALERT: Limiting the Use of Physical Restraint and Locked Seclusion! In-Reply-To: <002e01caba15$244a0230$6cde0690$@edu> Message-ID: From: Elisabeth Williams [mailto:elisabethw at cec.sped.org] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 4:18 PM Subject: ACTION ALERT: Urge your Representative to Support Legislation Limiting the Use of Physical Restraint and Locked Seclusion!!! ? Background: Earlier this month the House Education and Labor Committee passed H.R. 4247 , the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act by a bipartisan vote of 34-10. This legislation would establish important minimum federal safety standards in schools, similar to the protections already in place in hospitals and other non-medical community based facilities. It would limit the use of physical restraint and locked seclusion, allowing these interventions only in emergency situations where there is an imminent threat of danger. Importantly, it would also encourage states to provide support and training to better protect students and professionals and prevent the need for emergency behavioral interventions. This Wednesday March 3, 2010 H.R. 4247 will receive a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. TAKE ACTION NOW!!! How to Act: 1) Go to CEC?s Legislative Action Center and send a letter urging your Representative to vote in favor of H.R. 4247 , the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. 2) Send this alert along to everyone in your network and encourage everyone to urge their Representative to vote in favor of H.R. 4247 , the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. As always, thank you for all that you do! Elisabeth Elisabeth Williams Policy Coordinator Policy and Advocacy Services Council for Exceptional Children 1110 North Glebe Road Suite 300 Arlington, Virginia 22201 703-264-9498 (T) 703-243-0410 (F) elisabethw at cec.sped.org www.cec.sped.org Visit the Policy Insider blog today ! Jumpstart your convention experience with a preconvention workshop. Choose from some of special education?s hottest topics and earn CEUs! ------ End of Forwarded Message -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dlarocco at hartford.edu Thu Mar 25 07:50:26 2010 From: dlarocco at hartford.edu (Diana J. LaRocco) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:50:26 -0400 Subject: [Dec-advocacy] Now on YouTube: Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders In-Reply-To: <279c84fc1003250645v351c8398xca904f2510a53036@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Subject: Now on YouTube: Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders We are thrilled to announce that the Yale undergraduate Autism Seminar taught here at the Child Study Center ?is now available online! Understanding Autism in the Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders: The Yale Seminar on Autism and Related Disorders is the United States' first undergraduate course devoted to understanding autism and developmental disorders. The seminar consists of a series of lectures designed to provide an overview of various topics related to autism and other socialization disorders. For Yale undergraduates, the class consists of a weekly seminar on diagnosis and assessment, etiology and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with autism and related disorders of socialization. This course has been available to Yale undergraduates for over 25 years, but thanks to generous donations made by the Associates of the Yale Child Study Center, we have recorded the entire course in high definition audio and video. We are thrilled to introduce our new website, now available at http://autism.yale.edu The Yale Child Study Center is now able to bring quality research and clinical programs to families and children living with Autism all around the world. We believe that making this content available to the public for free will further establish the Yale Child Study Center as an extraordinary resource of credible information on Autism and related disorders of socialization. With this new resource, we have realized our goal of making all of the lecture content and supporting materials available online for free to anyone who desires to learn about Autism Spectrum Disorders. Video of each lecture was captured in high-definition format to ensure the most elegant presentation possible on the Internet and future distribution outlets. We have taken advantage of the University's partnership with Google/ YouTube to host and stream the video for the site. Through this partnership, we have provided high-quality streaming video, free and reliable video hosting, direct connection to the large YouTube audience, robust metrics for each video and the ability for engaged users to "embed" our videos in their websites thus creating a secondary distribution network for our content. One of the features available through Google/YouTube's technology that we are most excited about is the ability to provide a version of each video with English-language closed captioning turned on. This technology enables us to immediately translate each video into 41 languages. To view the lectures on YouTube, please visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBR5NUMN7_0 Best, Emily If you no longer wish to receive e-mails detailing events related to the Yale Child Study Center, please send me an e-mail with "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line. Emily E. H. Deegan Office of the Chair Yale Child Study Center Yale University School of Medicine 230 S. Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT. 06519 Telephone: (203) 785-5759 Fax: (203) 785-7402 www.childstudycenter.yale.edu