PROGRAMS
A list of all programs of the Institute on Disabilities. If you know the name of the program, try the "Quick Links to Programs" function at the top right section of every page.
Advocacy
- Leadership Development
SUMMARY +/- Teaching people with disabilities, family members, and students to assume leadership roles in their communities and at the local, state, and national levels.
- C2P2 - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Training individuals with disabilities, parents of young children with disabilities, and university graduate students, providing up-to-date information, leadership training, and skill building.
- C2P2 EI - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking for Children of Families in Early Intervention
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Offering information about local, state and national issues that affect young children with disabilities, with a particular emphasis on early intervention issues.
- C2P2 Inclusion - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking for Inclusive Education
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Parents and educators form teams that help create schools which include ALL children.
- C2P2 EEL - Competence and Confidence: Partners in Policymaking, Emerging and Established Leaders
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Free training for individuals with disabilities, ages 18-30, who want to develop leadership skills.
- Families First
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Empowerment training on the basics of early intervention—teaching about early intervention system, meeting with other families, becoming an equal member in your child's Individual Education Plan.
- Supported Leadership
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Promoting and encouraging people with intellectual disabilities to become active, contributing and valued members of boards and committees throughout Pennsylvania.
- The Pennsylvania Training Partnership for People with Disabilities and Families
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION The Partnership makes available training and technical assistance, developed and provided by people with disabilities and families.
- IM4Q: Independent Monitoring for Quality
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Collecting and disseminating information that might help improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.
- Emergency Preparedness
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing information and services to make an impact on the safety and well-being of individuals with disabilities, families and support system.
- Technical Assistance
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing technical assistance at the local, state, and international levels to individuals, agencies, and government entities, focusing on increasing the independent productivity and inclusion of all people with developmental disabilities.
- Criminal Justice
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing information, training and products which focus on the interaction between the criminal justice system and people with disabilities.
Technology
- PIAT - Pennsylvania's Initiative on Assistive Technology
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Public awareness, information and referral, advocacy, and training to enhance access to assistive technology for all Pennsylvanians with disabilities. Activities include development, implementation, and monitoring of laws, policies, practices, and organizational structures to improve access to assistive technology for all people with disabilities.
- Assistive Technology Device Demonstration
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing opportunities for "guided exploration" of a specific device or category of devices.
- Assistive Technology and Employment
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Educating employers, providing awareness, and training on the benefits of AT in the workplace.
- Funding for Assistive Technology
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing funding guidance for the purchase of assistive technology devices and services.
- Pennsylvania's Assistive Technology Lending Library
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Stocking hundreds of items ranging from adapted toys to wheelchairs to aid individuals with disabilities in decision-making about possible purchase.
- HEAT - Pennsylvania's Higher Education Assistive Technology Lending Program
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing students with semester-long loans of assistive technology devices.
- REEP - Reused and Exchanged Equipment Partnership
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Listing service for people with disabilities to donate, sell or buy a wide variety of assistive devices.
- TDDP - Telecommunication Device Distribution Program
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing specialized equipment to Pennsylvanians whose disabilities impede independent access to telephone services.
- Free Adapted Smoke Alarm Program
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Providing free adapted smoke alarms to families of children with special needs who cannot afford to purchase one.
- Assistive Technology Research and Collaborative on Cognitive Disabilities
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Addressing adults with traumatic brain injury and adults and children with intellectual disabilities.
- Assistive Technology Companion Guide to the Transition Health Care Check List: Health Care Skills Needed for Independence
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Addressing the gap in health services for youth with special health care needs who are transitioning to adult life.
- Augmentative & Alternative Communication
SUMMARY +/- Providing training and technical assistance to individuals with significant speech disabilities who use augmentative or alternative communication.
- ACES - Augmentative Communication and Empowerment Supports
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Year-long augmentative communication and empowerment program designed to increase the communication effectiveness of adults with significant speech disabilities.
- ACOLUG - Augmentative Communication Online Users' Group
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Internet listserv allowing users of augmentative communication (AAC) to communicate with each other and with AAC professionals.
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Vocabularies and Symbol Sets
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Vocabularies that individuals who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and their families need to participate in socially-valued adult roles.
Education
- Disability Studies
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Course of studies exploring the historical, cultural, and socio-political challenges and accomplishments of the disabilities community and culture.
- Disability Studies Lecture Series
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Presents new work by recognized scholars in the field of Disability Studies.
- Ensuring Higher Education for ALL
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION A multi-tiered project to inculcate disability studies—the history, culture, experience of people with disabilities—into the fabric of Temple University.
- Academy for Adult Learning
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Selected individuals with intellectual disabilities spend four semesters on Temple University's main campus experiencing college life.
- Inclusive Teacher Preparation Program
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Developing and implementing a unified undergraduate teacher preparation in which teaching candidates are prepared to teach a diverse student population in regular classes.
- Supporting Diverse Learners Curriculum
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION A three-part Inclusive Education curriculum.
- Assistantships and Disability Seminar
SUMMARY +/- | COMPLETE INFORMATION Twenty hours per week paid, practical learning experience for full-time current graduate students at Temple University.
