“The transition to using technology and remote support has its challenges,” Tammy Murner tells Chet Tschetter in the latest Frontline Initiative. “There is a stigma that people with IDD need 24/7 support, and they need constant protection and supervision.?We acknowledge that some people do, while not all people do.” https://z.umn.edu/9zop
Institute on Community Integration
高等教育
Minneapolis，MN 987 位关注者
Ensuring that children, youth and adults with disabilities are valued by and contribute to their communities of choice.
关于我们
The Institute on Community Integration at the University of Minnesota pushes the edge of inclusion through an intensive focus on policies and practices that affect children, youth, and adults with disabilities, and those receiving educational supports. ICI’s collaborative research, training, and information-sharing ensure that people with disabilities are valued by, included in, and contribute to their communities of choice throughout their lifetime. ICI works with service providers, policymakers, educators, employers, advocacy organizations, researchers, families, community members, and individuals with disabilities around the world, building communities that are inclusive. ICI is a designated University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, part of a national network of similar programs in major universities and teaching hospitals across the country. The Institute is home to over 70 projects, addressing disability issues across the lifespan. ICI conducts the following four core activities – Interdisciplinary Education & Training, providing training for students, paraprofessionals, professionals, and leaders seeking to better support persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Technical Assistance, offering training, consultation, and program evaluation services to enhance the capacity of existing agencies and services. Research, improving policies & practices affecting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through applied research, conducted in collaboration with organizations, agencies, colleges, and universities around the globe. Dissemination, sharing information through newsletters, curricula, training materials, resource guides, reports, brochures, journal articles, books, websites, videos, social media, and other resources. Many research findings are translated into plain-language resources tailored to specific audiences, including people with intellectual disabilities.
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https://ici.umn.edu
Institute on Community Integration的外部链接
- 所属行业
- 高等教育
- 规模
- 51-200 人
- 总部
- Minneapolis，MN
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- 教育机构
- 创立
- 1985
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150 Pillsbury Drive SE
102 Pattee Hall
US，MN，Minneapolis，55455
Institute on Community Integration员工
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After leading ICI’s National Center on Educational Outcomes and contributing to its success as a bellwether for testing access and appropriate accommodations for students over the course of her career, Sheryl Lazarus will retire on November 27. https://z.umn.edu/9za7
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Policymakers and advocates are recognizing that focusing on reducing facility-based employment and ending subminimum wages does not, on its own, get people jobs. Read more in the latest issue of Impact. https://z.umn.edu/9zp6
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Alisa?Barnett has been writing and performing music since childhood. She wants to go to college to prepare for her music career. “I’m focused, and that’s how I’ll need to be in college. I’m ready for it.” https://z.umn.edu/9zog
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ICI’s Renáta Tichá?(pictured with the robot Nao) and?Haoyi Shi recently presented "Examining the usability and feasibility of Nao, a socially assistive robot, with aging adults" at the Closing the Gap Conference in Minneapolis. https://z.umn.edu/9zk0
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Technology that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities enhances their independence at work, in school, and in the community, but a new ICI brief shows that significant barriers keep many of them from accessing the technology they need. https://z.umn.edu/9z5j
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The effect of technology has been positive in some cases and negative in others. For example, technology can help people meet their goals and increase independence. But it can also get in the way of in-person relationships or complicate a person’s life. Worse, technology can put people at risk if they do not know how to use it safely. This issue of Frontline Initiative includes stories and resources to equip DSPs for high-quality practice. https://z.umn.edu/9zbv
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Using technology to improve lives. A retirement and a remembrance. A trip to Cuba. Get the latest from ICI in the new FYI newsletter. https://lnkd.in/gGgAg8R8
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Charting the LifeCourse helps you plan a good life with your child or young adult and develop supports that help them live the life they want. Life?is full of transitions—big and small—and some transitions can be bumpy. On December 3, learn how to use Charting the?LifeCourse?tools to plan for?life’s transitions and smooth some of the bumps. Register for this free online session. z.umn.edu/CtLCtransitions
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The new Frontline Initiative issue is now available: DSPs Using Technology and Supporting People to Use Technology. https://z.umn.edu/9z2e
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