AASR Live

Join us for a special interview with Lori Kirkland.  Lori Kirkland is a 3rd grade teacher and Advisor Lead in MSD of Lawrence Township in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has held numerous positions in her 25+ years of teaching but her heart and passion are working directly with and advocating for children. Educational Neuroscience is not a program, but a framework and discipline that combines neuroscie...

Join us for a special interview with Karen Blacher. Karen is a Long Island based writer, artist, teacher, and mom to three amazing, neurodiverse children. She currently teaches secular studies to a small class of 3rd and 4th grade students at the Chabad Cheder in Coram, New York, where her constantly-evolving classroom design is informed by her experiences with her own neurodiverse children, her y...

In March of 2018 Victoria Johnson son was restrained by a school resource officer (SRO). Today Victoria is the founder of Families United for Self-Empowerment, a nonprofit organization in North Dakota. She helps mentor families and youth on how to become self-advocates. Victoria has a background in Business management, leadership, and Healthcare. Families United for Self-Empowerment is a nonprofit...

Join us for a special conversation with Elly Chapple, Founder #flipthenarrative, TEDx Speaker. Elly graduated with honours in Human Resource Management and the Psychology of Human Communication. She has always been fascinated with human communication and behaviour, both verbal and non-verbal. She spent her early career working in businesses, managing and developing strategy for solutions focused a...

Join us for this exciting interview and learn about the Polyvagal Theory and autonomic physiology. In 1994 Stephen W. Porges, Ph. D. proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leadin...

Connections Over Compliance: Rewiring Our Perceptions of Discipline an interview with Lori Desautels, Ph. D.  Children who carry chronic behavioral challenges are often met with reactive and punitive practices that can potentially reactivate the developing stress response systems.  This book deeply addresses the need for co-regulatory and relational touch point practices, shifting student-focused...

Join Shain Neumeier and Lydia X. Z. Brown in conversation about the connections between youth rights, disability justice, and racial justice movements in addressing coercive and forced treatment, institutionalization, and mass criminalization. They will discuss the connections between applied behavior analysis and conversion therapy, the history of the Judge Rotenberg Center's electric shock...

In this presentation, Cheryl Poe will review the key regulations and laws that offer protection to students with disabilities. We will discuss how to use these protections when advocating for Black and Brown with disabilities. Cheryl Poe is the Director of Diversity Issues at the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint. Cheryl Poe is the founder and owner of Advocating 4 Kids, Inc a Special Educa...

Join us for a special interview with Ron Garrison. Ron will discuss how to use civil litigation against the use of restraint and seclusion. Beyond alternative dispute resolution and due process complaints, litigation proceedings against school district officials can become an injunctive alternative when harmful restrictive forms of restraint and seclusion are used against students. Employing the t...

The Reflective Journey is a practitioner’s handbook to the low arousal approach, written by Studio 3 CEO Professor Andrew McDonnell.  Professor Andrew McDonnell’s new practitioner guide really is a reflective journey. A strong theme throughout all of the chapters is that we must look at our own behaviour first in order to manage highly stressful situations. We spoke to him about what to expect fro...

Join us for this special interview. Learn about an internationally recognized model school for trauma-informed practices from Mathew Portell.  Mathew Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. It is through the collaborative team approach and building positive relationships that Portell is leading...

Diane will share her views on behavioral support with an emphasis on prevention. Her approach strives to be respectful, sensible and effective. Diane has a private practice outside of Chicago. Before that she had worked in schools and for private agencies for 30 years. She is a social worker with an interest and certification in behavior change. https://www.dianegouldtherapy.com Support the show

Back in November an investigation by ProPublica and Chicago Tribune exposed what seclusion and restraint is like for students in Illinois Public Schools. Over a period of a school year and half prone restraint was used on 1,300 students in Illinois public schools. As you likely know, prone restraint is when a person is held face down on the floor or ground just as was done with Max Benson, George...

Join us for this special interview. An attorney’s perspective of how to reduce the use of restraint and to eliminate seclusion. Leslie Seid Margolis is a managing attorney at Disability Rights Maryland, Maryland’s protection and advocacy agency, where she has worked since 1985. In her practice at DRM, she handles individual special education cases and engages in special education policy work at th...

Children communicate through their behavior. Behavioral problems may occur when we misunderstand what a child is trying to tell us. Adults may find themselves continuously addressing the same behaviors and wondering why their child keeps repeating these behaviors. This workshop will help you to get under the behavior and discover what it is a child is trying to tell you. The workshop will provide...

Student disruption at school can take up an enormous amount of time, energy, and even financial resources. Confrontations can result not only in personal stress for both students and teachers, but in conflicts that involve families and the larger community. However, it's not always easy to know what to do or how to respond. In this original and highly engaging book, Emma Van der Klift suggest...

Have you decided to run for local office - or are considering it?  This session outlines the basics of campaign readiness, preparation, execution and compliance.  We hope that this information will make you feel that running for office is possible and might even be fun! Chelsea is an advocate for education, housing, mental health awareness, disability rights and inclusive communities. Chelsea was...

When Imani Hill arrived at her new job, she learned that rather than a co-teaching position, she would be responsible for teaching six black boys with Individualized Educational Plans (IEP). The boys were currently spending their days in a conference room with the Assistant Principal. When Ms. Hill arrived, they were moved to a classroom where she was to be their teacher. The students' IEPs w...

Join us for a special interview with self advocate Sam Maloney. Sam Maloney is a 20 year photographer from Rochester, NY. Sam started his photography journey at 10 years old. Sam is a restraint and seclusion survivor from the age of 5 to 14 years old. Sam is continuing his photography education through his person centered plan through New York State. Sam is also working to support autism acceptanc...

Join us for a special interview with self advocate Alex Campbell. Alex is an advocate for students with disabilities and the Executive Director of Campbell Advocacy. Alex is the KASSA Campaign Director for the Alliance Against Seclusion and Restraint. Alex is also proud to be a part of the education team at the Human Projects. He attends high school in a public school setting in rural Virginia. Al...

Unparalleled. Unprecedented. Extraordinary. Whatever descriptor you use for this time of societal crisis, it is clear that we are facing any number of defining moments as we struggle with COVID-19, systemic racism and institutionalized injustice, economic freefall, and climate change. How have our brains and nervous systems evolved to respond to crisis and trauma? What is attachment and how does i...

In this session we will explore brain development through an educator's lens. We will learn how adversity and trauma affect the way we learn, behave, and perceive the world, addressing specific brain aligned strategies that regulate our nervous systems and help us to connect with one another.  We will begin to understand that traditional discipline works the best for kids that need it the lea...

This informational webinar will provide parents and educators with valuable information about executive functioning. Robin Roscigno is a scholar/practitioner specializing in education for Neurodivergent children. She is a PhD candidate at Rutgers \University's Graduate School of Education and consults with school districts and parents on a range of topics. Most recently, Robin was awarded the...

In this session Allison will share how she uses a comfort vs. control approach and creativity during this pandemic. Support the show

Families and caregivers will gain a basic understanding of what trauma is, how it affects the brain, and how it can affect behavior. Support the show