Toolkit This toolkit provides guidance for developing preschoolers’ school readiness skills and is designed to help caregivers and developmental therapists better understand early learning skills important for preschoolers approaching kindergarten. This toolkit is designed to help caregivers take an active role in their child’s learning by studying up on classroom participation skills. These are the skills… Read more Teaching School Readiness Skills to Preschool-Aged Children
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Telehealth for Caregivers
Toolkit This toolkit is designed to help caregivers and families understand the autism evaluation process, recognize early indicators of autism, understand the differences between a tele-assessment or in-person evaluation, and prepare for a tele-assessment appointment through the Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Autism evaluation and… Read more Telehealth for Caregivers
Cognitive Behavioral/Instructional Strategies (CBIS)
Toolkit Cognitive Behavioral/Instructional Strategies (CBIS) are interventions based on the simple principle that thinking (internal behavior) impacts emotions/feelings and controls overt actions (external behavior). These are interventions used to teach learners to support their self-awareness and self-management skills. These two new toolkits provide helpful suggestions on how to integrate CBIS to support mental health for… Read more Cognitive Behavioral/Instructional Strategies (CBIS)
The Informed Consent Process for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The purpose of this toolkit is to present ways for you to better include individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in research. It provides strategies to make the informed consent process go more smoothly for your participants with IDD. Individuals with IDD are often excluded from health-related research. Exclusion from research leads to reduced… Read more The Informed Consent Process for Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities