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July 5, 2022Grant Wood AEA’s College for Kids Prepares Area Middle Schoolers For a Range of Career Paths
Each year, hundreds of middle school students from Cedar Rapids and surrounding communities enrich their education with classes they won’t normally attend in… Read More
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April 25, 2022Peer-to-Peer: Providing Access for ALL Kids
In this session from 2021 Building Bridges, AEA staff members Sydney Hoffman (SLP) and Lindsay Swartzendruber (Autism Consultant) share a short overview of "Peer-to-Peer", a… Read More
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April 22, 2022Options for Written Expression
Writing is a complex, expressive skill that can often be the trigger for frustration and student behavior at school. Expression and ‘showing what you… Read More
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April 20, 2022Ways to Build Engagement and Access: MOVE!
This year, the Grant Wood AEA Motor Team group got together to pilot some work with classrooms on movement and engagement in learning. This group… Read More
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April 18, 2022Peer Mediated Instruction: One Family’s Personal Experience
What happens when kids are explicitly taught how to interact with each other in ways that support the development of communication and social skills? Everyone… Read More
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April 18, 2022FREE Registration to OCALICON Ends Soon
OCALICON, from the folks at OCALI in Ohio, are offering FREE registration for two weeks only to anyone who registers between April 18 and April 30,… Read More
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April 12, 2022Building More Student Engagement and Access with Bookshare: Building Bridges 2022
For students who might have print disabilities, paper-based books can be difficult or even impossible to read. While students are receiving instruction in… Read More
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April 4, 2022Building Bridges: AAC in General Education Incorporating Peer Modeling
Great learning opportunities occur everyday in our classrooms, but something else is happening within those four walls. Children are developing friendships and a… Read More
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March 2, 2022Read Across America Day – 2022
Read Across America Day is a national holiday celebrated each year on March 2nd, the birth date of famous children's author Dr. Read More
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February 23, 2022Researching with Elementary Students: Tips and Tricks
Even our youngest students can be engaged in researching topics of interest on the internet. The stigma of ‘digital natives’ rears its ugly head (once… Read More
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