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To register for an event, contact your district coordinator. Each district has an individual designated as the Speech/Language coordinator or lead. If you are unsure who that is in your district, contact your ESE Director.
For educators not affiliated with a district, email Alice Kaye Emery at aemery@coe.ufl.edu.

2/21/2025 - 2/21/2025
Root Causes, Real Solutions: Developing Behavioral Strategies that Work
Location: PLEASE DO NOT SHARE ZOOM LINK WITH OTHERS
Presenter(s): Charlene Grecsek, ED, LMHC
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Description:
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN MOVED TO ZOOM. The link is in the documents below.

This six-hour, face-to-face presentation will provide participants with information about the connections between the brain and emotions, memory, relationships, and behavior.  Participants will learn about how issues such as anxiety and depression can impact a child’s relationships, learning, and behaviors.  Participants will also learn about effective behavioral strategies that can be implemented in their work with students who are experiencing behavioral issues. Participants will have the opportunity to examine case studies and to work in small groups with colleagues to share, discuss, and practice effective strategies and solutions specific to their individual caseloads and therapy goals.

ASHA CEUs can not be awarded for individuals who are more than 15 minutes late to the start of any portion of the event. 

Time: 8:00am-3:00pm (EST)
Details:
ZOOM
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO ZOOM.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE ZOOM LINK WITH OTHERS, . .
Room #: Zoom instructions and a revised agenda will be posted soon in the documents above.
Registration Deadline: 2/17/2025
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4/22/2025 - 4/23/2025
2025 Leaders Event for OT/PT and SLP Coordinators
Location: Safety Harbor
Presenter(s): Mindy Garfinkel, OTD, OTR/L, ATP, Francine M Seruya, PhD, MBA, OTR/L, FAOTA
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Description:
Day 1:

Updates on current FDOE Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services topics of interest relevant to related services will be provided.

Attendees will also have opportunities to participate in Coordinator Work Groups.

Day 2:  
Interprofessional Collaboration for Change:  Implementing Workload Models in Florida Public Schools.  

Research indicates school-based, related service practitioners desire to shift practice towards a workload approach.  Practitioners continue to report difficulty implementing a workload model due to a lack of "know how", administrative support, and negotiation skills.  

Dr. Francine Seruya and Dr. Mindy Garfinkle will provide a day of training and workgroup sessions highlighting the issues surrounding caseload vs. workload. This interactive training will provide activities for reflection on practice, completion and analysis of time studies, education on a workload model, and advocacy/negotiation skills for systems change.

Hotel Reservation and Event Registration Details


Participants must complete the following two items:

1.  Register to attend the event on the WWE site by completing the pretest and updating your account profile. 


2.  Complete the sleeping room survey. Even if you do not need a room, please confirm this via the survey.

This must be completed by March 7, 2025 at the link provided.

https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3eZtpzI9202djuK


You must live 50+ miles from the event for a sleeping room to be provided.  We provide a maximum of two sleeping rooms per district.  If the SLP and OT/PT Coordinator position is a combined position, one room is provided.  WWE is only responsible for reservations made on the WWE site.  Participants should not contact the hotel directly to make reservations, cancel reservations, or modify reservations. 

Due to seating limitations, a maximum of two individuals per district may attend, e.g. one SLP and one OT/PT. Please add additional participants to the event wait list and include them on your sleeping room reservation if sharing a room.  SLPs should register on the WWE SLP site and OT/PTs should register on the WWE OT/PT site.

If you need to change or cancel your reservation or registration status, please contact Jennifer Reeves at jreeves@coe.ufl.edu AND Alice Kaye Emery at aemery@coe.ufl.edu. Please DO NOT contact the hotel directly.  

 



Time: DAY 1: Onsite Sign In is at 1:30 PM; Event runs from 2:00 PM-4:30 PM DAY 2: Onsite Sign In is at 8:30 AM; Event Runs from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
Details:
Safety Harbor Resort and Spa
105 North Bayshore Drive
Safety Harbor, FL 34695
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Registration Deadline: 3/7/2025
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