Colorado Developmental Disabilities Council Forum
August 30, 2010   3:00 PM to 8:00 PM    Fort Collins, CO

Contact: Rhonda Stute    (970) 416-0698

The forum will begin with presentations by the Council and The Legal Center highlighting projects that the Council has funded over the last five years. An additional topic will be a focus on cultural responsiveness and implementing best practices in including people with developmental disabilities as active members in the life of their community. Before dinner, Watch Our Words (WOW), one of the Council's current grantees, will present.  Dinner is provided at no cost. After dinner there will be focus groups, led by the Council and The Legal Center, so that we may learn some of the important issues and concerns for people with disabilities and their family members in the region around Fort Collins.

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Speaker's Bureau

WOW members are experienced presenters on a variety of life and disability topics.

• Life through our eyes

• Classroom success

• Developing talents

• Employment

• Including people with disabilities in your organization

• Using assistive technology more effectively

• Many more

Please contact Pam Rahn to tell her of your group's needs

FC Training

WOW will presented a two-part training on Facilitated Communication in Boulder on June 14 and 21.  To arrange a training for your group or to inquire about dates and locations for future trainings contact Pam Rahn
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Autism Society of Boulder County Lecture Series
Debby McBride, MS, CCC-SLP & Mike Hoover of Watch Our Words Colorado

(WOW) presented on Augmentative Communication: Communication Through 

Technology at January's ASBC lecture series.

Mike described developing communication with Debby during their years together in Texas, then the giant leap forward after utilizing Facilitated Communication and augmentative devices in the early 1990's.  

Debby presented strategies and tools which facilitate and promote communication with a variety of individuals in a variety of situations. She demonstrated different devices and gave information on how to learn more about device use.  Debby assesses individuals  at Boulder Community Hospital's Mapleton Center weekly.

WOW members presented at the Cultural Competence Conference in Denver.

Their discussion of ways to include people who use communication devices  generated much interest. The presenters also responded to questions about their disability labels and how developing communication has helped others understand how to more fully assist them in their lives.