Healthy Families “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” Training

by Guam CEDDERS Bureau of Social Services Administration Department of Public Health & Social Services Project Bisita I Familia Project Kariñu
Instructor teaching in classroom
Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants listen to trainer Casey Holt (standing) as she describes the different parts of the brain and how trauma affects its development.
Instructor holding different colored bowls.
Casey Holt, nationally certified trainer for Healthy Families America, uses bowls to demonstrate the different parts of the brain during “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training at GSAT July 28-31, 2014. Healthy Families America is the home visiting model used by Project Bisita I Familia, Guam’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program. Participants represent Department of Public Health & Social Services-Project Kariñu, Project Bisita I Familia and Bureau of Social Services Administration; and Guam CEDDERS.

 

Group photo
Healthy Families America “Integrated Strategies for Home Visiting” training participants pose with trainer Casey Holt (holding sign) and Margarita Gay (first row 3rd from left), Project Bisita I Familia project director.

Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years Undergoes Revisions

by Guam CEDDERS Early Childhood
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Charlie Harper (standing), Guam CEDDERS Educational Consultant, facilitates a discussion with child care center directors on activities to include in the Guam Early Learning Guidelines: Three to Five Years revisions on July 18, 2014 at the School of Business and Public Administration building.
Photo of lecture hall with participants seated
Child care center directors work on their input to the revisions of the Guam Early Guidelines: Three to Five Years.

Live Demonstration of Video Remote Interpreting and Remote Captioning

by Guam CEDDERS Guam Systems for Assistive Technology

Demonstration of live remote interpreting on screen.

Demonstration of remote interpreting.
Stephen Frank (on large screen), HASA Video Remote Interpreting Director, provides a live demonstration of remote video interpreting during a meeting facilitated by Carla Torres (standing in red and black stripes), ATP, Assistive Technology and Special Projects Coordinator, Guam System for Assistive Technology (GSAT) on July 8. Approximately 50 service providers, agency representatives and self-advocates who are deaf attended the event which also included a live demonstration of remote CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation).

Guam CEDDERS Partners with USC LEND on Autism Training

by Guam CEDDERS Uncategorized
Parents in Teleconference
Parents take notes while Irina Zamora, Psy.D., (on screen) walks through some strategies on “Managing Challenging Behaviors” via teleconference from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on June 7. This training was the first of four meetings facilitated by the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Autism Treatment Network Center for Excellence and the USC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities LEND Training Program. Additional training sessions were held on June 14, which highlighted “Strategies to Improve Sleep in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders,” June 21, which featured “Nutritional Challenges in Children with ASD/Overview of Constipation Toolkit,” and June 28, which focused on an “Overview of the Visual Support Toolkit.”

Pacific VIP Scholars Attend UMass Boston Graduation Ceremonies

by Guam CEDDERS Pacific VIP
Graduation photo
Eight participants of the Pacific Vision Instruction Project (Pacific VIP) attended the graduation ceremonies held on May 30 on the campus of the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Sitting (L-R): William Kiernan, Ph.D., Dean of School of Global Inclusion and Social Development and Director of UMass Boston University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD); Glinda Hill, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Project Officer; Donna McNear, Pacific VIP Consultant; Paula Kosior, UMass Boston Faculty; Sandy Smith, UMass Boston Faculty; Wendy Buckley; UMass Boston Faculty; Bob McCulley, UMass Boston Faculty and Pacific VIP Liaison. Standing (L-R): June De Leon, Guam CEDDERS Associate Director and Pacific VIP Project Director; Gretchen Fisher Orr, New England region graduate; Diane Artero, Guam Scholar; Jennifer Shoniber; Pohnpei Scholar; Sigalu Epenesa, American Samoa Scholar; Amy Epati, American Samoa Scholar; Jennifer Buniag, CNMI Scholar; Sulugia Fa’atau, American Samoa Scholar; Chelsea Phillip, Chuuk Scholar; Mekioshy William, Chuuk Scholar; Heidi San Nicolas, Ph.D., Director, Guam CEDDERS.

Pacific VIP Scholar Receives Top Student Award

by Guam CEDDERS Pacific VIP
Award photo
Program administrators and faculty gather on May 29 to honor Diane Artero, Pacific VIP Scholar who received the prestigious Book Award for Academic Excellence in the University of Massachusetts Boston Vision Studies/School for Global Inclusion and Social Development. (L-R): Heidi San Nicolas, Ph.D., Director, Guam CEDDERS; William Kiernan, Ph.D., Dean of School of Global Inclusion and Social Development and Director of UMass Boston Vision Studies/School for Global Inclusion and Social Development University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD); Paula Kosior, UMass Boston Faculty; Marybeth Dean, UMass Boston Faculty; Glinda Hill, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs Project Officer; Diane Artero, Pacific VIP Scholar and Book Award Recipient; Robert McCulley, UMass Boston Faculty and Pacific VIP Liaison; and June De Leon, Associate Director, Guam CEDDERS and Pacific VIP Project Director.

 

 

  • Service provider working with student while family and other service providers look on.

    Jennifer Shoniber, Pacific VIP Pohnpei Scholar, conducts a lesson during her practiucm observation while Mary Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor, watches. Lilly Abraham and Florina Esiel observe in the background along with the student’s grandmother.

  • Photo of service providers working with student .

    Florina Esiel (left), Pacific VIP Pohnpei Scholar, conducts an introduction to Braille lesson with a kindergarten student with the assistance of Mary Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor, on April 24.

  • Photo of service provider and student working with Braille writer.

    Florina Esiel encourages her young student to practice using a Braille writer while being observed by Mary Dean.

  • Photo of service providers in a small boat with outboard motor.

    Pacific VIP Chuuk Scholars prepare for the 30-minute boat ride to Tonoas where Jason Reiong, was scheduled to demonstrate a lesson to be observed by Mary Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor, on April 28. (L-R) Jason Reiong, Marybeth Dean, Chelsea Mori Phillip, Mekoishy William.

  • Photo of service providers in classroom working with student.

    Jason Reiong, Pacific VIP Chuuk Scholar has no problems keeping his student on the lesson during an on-site practicum observation conducted by Marybeth Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor. Mekioshy William, Pacific VIP Chuuk Scholar observes in the background.

  • Photo of service provider working with student.

    Mekioshy William, Pacific VIP Chuuk Scholar conducts a lesson with his student on the island of Pata, in the Chuuk lagoon on April 29.

  • Photo of service provider working with student using assistive technology.

    Lilly Abraham, Pacific VIP Pohnpei Scholar, works with one of her students during a practicum observation session on April 25.

  • Photo of Special Education Coordinators and

    (L-R): Arthur Albert, FSM National Government Special Education Director; Marybeth Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor; and Carlina Henry, Pohnpei State Special Education Coordinator, discuss the activities that occurred during Ms. Dean’s on-site visit at an exit meeting in Pohnpei on April 25.

  • Photo of service providers standing in a group.

    Pacific VIP Chuuk Scholars attend a debrief meeting at the end of the Chuuk Practicum On-Site Visit on May 1. (L-R): Jason Reiong, Scholar; Marybeth Dean, UMASS Boston Practicum Supervisor; Ansina Kony, Special Education Coordinator, Chuuk DOE; Chelsea Mori Phillip, Scholar; Terrie Fejarang, Guam CEDDERS; and Mekioshy William, Scholar.

Pacific VIP Scholars Complete Final Practicum Observation

by Guam CEDDERS Pacific VIP Vision Impairment