Announcing
A New Workshop
Guiding
Teens and Young Adults to Tangible Life Outcomes
Aspergers
* Autism * Learning and
Developmental
Disabilities
*Workshops
are designed for parents, advocates,
and school personnel
Place:
Kinsafe
11111
Shelbyville Rd.
(at
Dorsey Lane)
Louisville,
KY
555-5555
Dates:
Sept. 24, Oct. 15,
Oct.
29, Nov. 12
Time:
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Walking
the Path© Series
By
Jackie
Marquette, Ph.D.
7514
Warrenton Hill Ct.
Louisville, KY 40291
502
417-6063/Fax 502 742-8487
www.drjackiemarquettegroup.com
jackie@drjackiemarquette.com
What
is this workshop about?
This
workshop is for those who want to learn more about how to help a
student/teenager or young adult get on their own right track in
building his or her life during transition and after high school.
This is not an easy task. It must be done with broad creative
supports, much effort, and inspiration. Our youth need to know there
is something worthwhile to work for and to accomplish in life. They
can be guided when we acknowledge their challenges and put into place
broad creative supports that enable them to continue learning, using
abilities, interests, and talents.
Sept.
24: How to Prepare for the Changing Role of Parenting a Teen or
Young Adult with Challenges
1.What
the teen/young adult needs from parents and what they do not need
from their parents.
2.How
to recognize visible
and hidden needs in the teen/young adult.
3.
The levels of supports that positively impact the individual’s
capability level.
4.The
impact that emotional supports have on the individual’s increased
self-care, self-value and independence.
Oct.
15 : How to identify abilities and strengths while acknowledging
challenges in youth.
1.How
to encourage the teen/young adult to make choices, take part, and
have a say in h/her life.
2.How
to recognize visible and hidden capabilities in the young adult.
3.Understand
how interests and talents can be expanded, developed in employment,
leisure, self-employment, or college study.
4.How
to begin to understand youth and help them mature and thrive.
October
29: Why Supports are Needed Beyond Childhood and How they Make A
Difference in building Success
1.
Know what supports are available and recognize how to create
short-term and long-term supports that enable and increase
independence for the young adult.
2.
The importance of collaborating with school personnel and/or other professionals
in order to benefit the teen or young adult.
3.
How to get going with ‘next steps’ when options for the
student/young adult
appear to be no-where in sight.
Nov.
12: Employment, College Study, and Independent Living
1.
What there is to know and what to ask when seeking supports and
college.
2.
How broad creative supports can be negotiated and developed for the
teen/young adult for employment or college success.
3.
What there is to know about disclosing a disability.
4.How
to prevent the teen/young adult from falling through the cracks.
Walking
the Path content is based on:
Broad
creative supports designed with a team
approach
to secure employment for students
in
school transition: employer, job coach, coworker
support
(School Consulting).Best
practices and principles that were applied
and
researched within the disability field to
include
my own research with young adults
who
have ASD and living independently.
First
hand knowledge as I faced and struggled
with
obstacles and worked with a team to find
broad
creative supports that helped my son
Trent
who has autism. Today he has a job, is
self
employed in his own art business, and
lives
independently with a roommate.
The future is
in your hands.
Resources
to that guide students to find their way.
Becoming
Remarkably Able: Walking the Path to Talents, Interests, and Personal
Growth is about identifying talents and strengths, then transferring
them into tangible forms. It’s all about finding and pursuing that
hobby, that activity, that job, or that subject of study which makes
the heart sing.
The
Capability and Independence Scale, CAIS© is a new tool that is a
strengths based assessment to guide planning and evaluation of the
student - noting the students’ capabilities and the intensity of
need for supports in seven areas of living. The CAIS can help in
transition planning by painting a picture of a person’s life’s as
it relates to t he
student’s strengths and interests with traditional and broad
creative supports.
About
Jackie Marquette
Jackie
has over 20 years of experience as a special educator and school
consultant. She has written three books, published in journals, and
monthly newsletters. Jackie has a Ph.D. from the University of
Louisville where she studied how youth with ASD successfully reached
independent living. She created Walking the Path© Seminars and
validated a new assessment tool the Capability and Independence Scale
(CAIS) ©. Jackie hosts a radio talk show, Remarkably Able, on
autism and quality of life for teens and young adults, Her son,
Trent, has autism, is employed at Meijer department stores, has his
own art business, Trent’s Studio LLC, and has lived independently
for 7 years with “broad creative supports.”
Mission
To
guide parents and advocates to recognize the challenges and
capability levels in persons with ASD and DD so all will be empowered
to establish broad creative supports in order that youth can thrive
and learn, enjoy true involvement, and realize personal growth.
Registration
Form
Guiding
Teens and Young Adults to Tangible Life Outcomes
Sept.
24, Oct. 15, Oct. 29, Nov. 12
Cost:
Individual $100.00
Family Members(2) 150.00
Professional $125.00
Please
indicate one:
Parent/guardian____
School Personnel_____OtherProfessional____________
Name(s):___________________
Address:______________________________________
State:___________
Zip_____________ Phone:_____________________________________
E-mail:_______________________________________________________________________
Credit
Card#_________________________________ Exp Date:_________ MC___
VISA____
*Please
enclose check, money order, or credit card info and number of
attendees.
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Contact Information:
Jackie M. Marquette, Ph.D.
7514 Warrenton Hill Ct.
Louisville, KY 40291
502 742-8756/Fax 502 742-8487
jackie@themarquettegroup.com
www.themarquettegroup.com
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