Vermont I-Team & ISE Endorsement Program News

The Vermont State I-Team is a State funded team of professionals and parents who provide consultative services to educators and families of students with intensive educational needs including severe multiple disabilities, dual sensory impairments and autism. The Intensive Special Education (ISE) Endorsement Program is a 24-credit course sequence which will result in participants earning an endorsement in Intensive Special Education to add to their Vermont Special Education License.


EDSP 224: A Conversational Approach to Communication

Posted on June 3, 2006

EDSP 224 Flyer
EDSP 224 will be taught this fall in Richford by Sue Ashworth and Barbara Miles and in Ludlow by Tammy Loomis and Barbara Miles. Wow...Barbara will be busy! Click on the link above to see the details or e-mail ginny Iverson at virginia.iverson@uvm.edu.

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EDSP 202: Characteristics and Educational Interventions: ISE

Posted on June 3, 2006

EDSP 202 Flyer
The University of Vermont course EDSP 202: Students with Significant Disabilities: Characteristics and Educational Interventions will be taught in conjunction with Camp GIZMO beginning on June 18, 2006. If you are interested, download the .pdf flyer by clicking on the above link and learn more. This is the first course for a new cohort of ISE Endorsement students, but the course is also open to any interested educator. Sign up now!

For more information on Camp Gizmo read the article just below this one.

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Summer Course Offering at Camp GIZMO

Posted on May 24, 2006

EDSP 202: Students with Significant Disabilities: Characteristics and Educational Interventions: ISE is being offered this summer during Camp GIZMO at Castleton State College, Castelton, VT.

Camp GIZMO runs from June 18, 2006 through June 22, 2006. Camp GIZMO activities are built around several focus children with multiple disabilities and their families. It offers a "Kids Camp" of safe, fun activities, "Bright Ideas Teams" to identify and apply strategies for solving focus children's assistive technology needs, and "Food for Thought Workshops." Students taking EDSP 202 will have opportunities to work at the Kids Camp, meet with Bright Ideas Teams and attend Food for Thought Workshops as a part of this course. It is a fantastic opportunity for teachers who want to learn more about students with severe disabilities and/or deaf-blindness in a fun, interactive environment.

You can access the Camp GIZMO website from the RESOURSE LINKS to the right of this article.

Call or e-mail Joy Perrino for details on signing up for EDSP 202.

Joy Perrino 656-8887 joy.perino@uvm.edu

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Opportunity for Vermont Teachers Certified in Special Education

Posted on May 3, 2006

The University of Vermont and the Vermont Department of Education are seeking licensed special educators who will commit to taking part in a part-time graduate program (24 credits) leading to an endorsement in Intensive Special Education. These credits may be transferred towards an advanced degree. The first cohort of 8 students is entering into their second year of courswork and a second cohort for the ISE program begins this summer and will be offered in the Northeast Kingdom and the Rutland areas. The program is being developed and is taught by members of the State I-Team and consists of 6 courses and a 2 field-based practicum courses. The program operates on a first come first served basis.

For more information or to apply contact: Joy Perrino (joy.perrino@uvm.edu) or Tim Fox (timothy.fox@uvm.edu)

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