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Providing Supports for Parents with Learning Difference
Date: October 25, 2012
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Susan Jones is the Positive Parenting Program Director in Greenfield, MA.
Bernadette Irwin is the Family Support Director at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD.
These Co-President's of The Association for Successful Parenting (TASP), an international organization, will share information on their successful programs providing services for parents with learning differences.
Dr. Nicole Brisson is the Sage Haven Center Director in Fairfax, VT. Dr. Brisson will share information about the Vermont Parent Assessment Team and Competence-Based Parenting Assessment for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She will speak about what has been learned through the process of evaluating numerous families and how this information relates to future directions of the program. Dr. Brisson is also on the Board of TASP and is Chair of the AAIDD Task Force on Supporting Parents with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.