Summer 2008 Institute Series
Self Determination: Attending to Lifespan Issues
The Institute - August 6-7, 2008
This institute is designed to help school professionals, families, and service providers understand the importance of self-determination to long term quality of life for individuals with disabilities. Focusing from childhood through adulthood, this institute explores autonomy, self regulation, and empowerment for individuals with disabilities. Potential self-determination topics include:
- Defining self-determination and its importance for individuals with disabilities
- Self-determination needs across the life span
- Similarities and differences in self-determination for individuals with cognitive and developmental disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, and learning disabilities
- Assessing individual preferences
- Family support and participation
- Encouraging choice making
- Teaching problem solving
- Student-directed learning
- Student-directed IEPs
- Volitional planning and intentional actions
- Career development and transition
- Relationship to standards based reforms
Who Should Attend
The Institute provides a three-part professional development program for:
- Teachers; especially those teaching students with disabilities at early childhood, elementary, middle, and secondary levels
- Administrators
- Related Service Providers including speech and language clinicians, occupations and physical therapists, interveners, etc.
- School Psychologists
- School Counselors
- Parents of Students with Disabilities
- Service providers from organizations serving individuals with disabilities
- Others interested in facilitating independence and intrinsically motivated actions for individuals with disabilities
Registration Options
Non-Credit
- Complete the registration form provided on the back of this brochure and return to the address listed, OR register online: Online Registration
- Credit cards accepted for non-credit registration only
- For non-credit registration only, the cost of materials is included in the continuing education fee of $190
Course Credit (Graduate or Undergraduate)
- Students registering for credit may register for all or part of the institute series (Institute Only (1 credit), Pre-Institute & Institute (2 credits), or Pre-Institute, Institute, & Post-Institute (3 credits)
- Students who are currently enrolled at UW-Whitewater for the Summer 2008 Session may register on the WINS System, OR students who are not currently enrolled at UW-Whitewater should contact the Office of Continuing Education by calling 1-800-621-5376 to request an Admission/Registration Packet.
- Course materials including text are included in the material fees of $40
Summer 2008 Institute Series
Institute
August 6-7 • 9:00-4:00 • (8:30 registration & materials)
Dr. Michael Wehmeyer, leading educator, researcher, and theorist in the fields of disabilities and self-determination, leads the 2008 Summer Institute. Participants who take the Institute for one course credit will be required to write a short reflective paper applying Institute c ontent within their professional settings. Participants may register for only the Institute.
Pre-Institute
August 4-5 • 9:00-4:00 • (8:30 registration & materials)
The Pre-Institute will combine in-class discussion and web enhancement facilitated by UW-Whitewater faculty in special education to examine selected literature and research related to the topic. Participants taking the Pre-Institute for one course credit are required to complete additional readings, engage in extended discussion, and develop a case study related to Pre-Institute content. Participants must also register for the Institute.
Post-Institute
August 8-9 • 9:00-4:00 • (8:30 registration & materials)
The Post-Institute will focus on site-based collaborative actions planned to improve practices within schools and districts. Participants taking the Post-Institute for one course credit are required to design and submit their own action plans and carry out web enhanced activities with seminar participants and faculty. Participants must attend the Pre-Institute and Institute to enroll in this workshop.
Fee Information
Institute Only
(1 Credit Option)
- Graduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $379.32
- Undergraduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $244.22
- Books are included in the materials fee of $40
Pre-Institute & Institute
(2 Credit Option)
- Graduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $758.64
- Undergraduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $488.44
- Books are included in the materials fee of $40
Pre-Institute, Institute & Post Series
(3 Credit Option)
- Graduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $1137.96
- Undergraduate Course Fee (WI Resident) of $732.66
- Books are included in the materials fee of $40
The Speaker
Dr. Michael Wehmeyer
Michael Wehmeyer, Ph.D. is a professor, Executive Director of the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, Senior Scientist at the University of Kansas Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, and Associate Director of the Beach Center on Disability. Dr. Wehmeyer has won many national awards for research and leadership, most recently co-recipient of the Council for Exceptional Children, Division on Developmental Disabilities Research Award in 2006. An internationally renowned speaker and having authored or co-authored over 20 books, 65 book chapters, and 170 articles and journal issues, Dr. Wehmeyer is theoretically, scientifically, and instructionally seminal in the area of self-determination.
Worldwide, Dr. Wehmeyer has impacted the field of special education with his service to such organizations and government agencies as the World Health Organization, U.S. Department of Education, National Institute on Disability Rehabilitation Research, and The Arc. Through his service at international, national, and local levels, he is most noteworthy and influential in facilitating appropriate education for students with developmental disabilities. In the special education classroom, Dr. Wehmeyer’s more than 20 curriculum and assessment materials guide the field of instruction for those with developmental and intellectual disabilities. In addition to self-determination, Dr. Wehmeyer’s areas of specialization include: education of students with intellectual/developmental disabilities; access to the general curriculum for students with significant disabilities; and technology use and people with intellectual disabilities.
Special Notice
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is committed to equal opportunity in its educational programs, activities and employment policies, for all persons regardless of race, color, gender, creed, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, marital status, Vietnam-era veteran status, parental status and pregnancy.
If you have any disabling condition that requires special accommodations or attention, please advise us well in advance. We will make every effort to accommodate your special needs.
Online Application Form
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Contact Information
For More Information
Dr. Amy Griffith
Department of Special Education
(262)472-5817 or griffita@uww.edu
Office of Continuing Education Services
2005 Roseman, UW-Whitewater
Whitewater, Wisconsin
(262) 472-3165
Email: cesevents@uww.edu
