OCALI Pass accounts are available free of charge to anyone who wishes to participate in professional development opportunities and access various tools offered through the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI).
Learn more about OCALI's Family and Community Outreach Center and its mission to address the needs of families dealing with disability.
Learn simple strategies to create membership for each student, making certain the needs of the whole child are met.
Help us recognize and celebrate leaders and change agents who are making a difference in the lives of people with disabilities. Submit your nomination today! The deadline is September 15.
Honor our relationships and learn how to improve person-centered planning, community membership, and employment opportunities across Ohio. Registration now open!
Learn how to access and investigate state-compiled special education profile data to find patterns and how to initiate discussions around indicators where...
Learn proactive planning strategies from professionals, families, and learners on how to plan ahead for successful learning experiences for learners who are deaf/hard of hearing.
Understand why accessibility is important for learners who are blind/visually impaired and discover tips and tricks for considering a student’s accessibility needs.
Learn how accessible educational materials (AEM) can be used to improve outcomes for students. Hear from experts who discusses the challenges, benefits, and AEM resources available to support learning.
Únase a un panel para aprender cómo servir a familias de diferentes orígenes étnicos para encontrar recursos para apoyar las necesidades culturales y educativas de las familias con niños y jóvenes con discapacidades.
When hearing or vision loss has been identified, the next step is to look at how each learner uses hearing and/or vision where they live, learn & play.
Saturday, May 6, 2017 - A conference for parents, students who are blind or visually impaired, and the professionals who serve them.
The 2017 AT Vendor Fair is coming to a region near you!
Learn how to use the information from an audiogram to set up the learning environment for optimal language access and full participation at school, at home, and in the community.
Let’s celebrate! OCALI is excited to share resources and events that embrace the concept of Access+Belonging=Community and advance OCALI’s mission to inspire change and promote access.
Attention Band Together families! Gatsby's will be closed on Sunday, May 12, 2024. We will not have a Band Together event in May. We invite you to join us Sunday, June 9, 2024!
Learn more about Autism Friendly Open Mics hosted every second Sunday of the month from 2-5 p.m. at Gatsby’s (151 N Hamilton Rd. Gahanna)
Learn more about Braille Excellence for Students and Teachers (BEST), including a FREE summer braille series and other upcoming trainings and resources.
Explore bright spots for promoting access and inclusion from the past year and how they are intentionally connected to supporting the whole child.
Part III is designed to focus on the practical demonstration of specific aspects of telepsychological assessments, including how to administer a standard test battery to learners who are D/HH or B/VI.
Learn strategies for building partnerships between families and school staff. Learn how to nurture these relationships and navigate the barriers posed by the pandemic.
Submit a proposal to present at the premier autism and disabilities conference – Nov. 15-18, 2022. Hurry! The proposal deadline is March 31, 2022!
Explore how stress and trauma in early childhood may impact early care and education professionals, and how to build resilience with self-care strategies.
The InspirED series launched in 2020 in response to a global pandemic. Join us as we celebrate nearly 50 episodes! We will look back on the strategies and resources that helped us through.
We want to know what YOU - the families, educators, and people living with autism - have found to be TRIED & TRUE in your life. Tell us something that has proven in the past to be effective or reliable.
This webinar series based on positive behavior intervention supports for challenging behaviors explores how to conduct a functional behavior assessment and behavior intervention plan.
Challenging Behavior: Expect Success Documents
Learn what behavior is and when a behavior is considered a problem. This segment discusses the importance of a team approach and provides an overview of positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS).
Determine antecedent procedures for the behavior intervention plan.
Learn how to build procedures in response to the target behavior and procedures to build the replacement behavior.
Learn how to build more of the behavior intervention plan, including the areas of safety concerns, implementation of the plan, and data procedures.
Learn about the Strategy, Assessment, and Revision Tool (SART), which matches interventions with the strengths and characteristics of the individual with complex needs.
Check out this tool that helps your team consider the impact adults and peers can have on an individual’s behavior.
Discover underlying issues that may be having an impact on the target behavior.
Learn how to identify antecedents and consequences of a specifically defined interfering behavior.
Discover the importance of data analysis when making decisions to address challenging behaviors.
Explore missing skills that have an impact on why the individual is engaging in the identified target behavior.
Discover the individual’s strengths, interests, and preferences and how they can be used to address challenging behavior.
Learn the why or the function of challenging behaviors.
Identify a replacement behavior for the interfering behavior.
Learn how to create a behavior intervention plan starting with behavioral objectives and data.
8:00 am - 12:45 pm - Friday, November 17. Three groundbreaking sessions will introduce the framework developed BY FAMILIES to help individuals and families of all abilities.
Discover how partners from a unique school-community collaboration in Cincinnati are using a common agenda...
Celebrate Deaf History Month by exploring the contributions and rich identities of groups who make up our nation, and learn what can be done to increase access and equity in our schools and communities.
Discover how one team has prepared for the transition from face-to-face to online learning by designing personalized kits for learners that can be used at school or home.
The unemployment rate for persons with a disability is almost twice as high as the rate for persons without a disability, and people with disabilities are more likely to be employed only part time.
Even when compensated fairly, disabled people may remain food insecure due to the extra expenses related to having a disability.
According to the Ohio Department of Education, there are consistent gaps in academic performance and graduation rates of students with disabilities.
This introductory training series with 10 two-hour sessions is designed for school-based evaluation teams that want to learn more about the process for educational identification of students with ASD.
Learn how families should be included in discussions about alternate assessment decision-making for students with significant cognitive disabilities, including how to use state guidelines, supports, and more.
Explore this FREE video-based learning series that provides practical resources designed to ensure ALL learners have access to the general curriculum.
Are you ready to increase your team’s knowledge and capacity for family engagement? Together, we can inform and empower families to create a more seamless transition to adulthood. Email us today!
All behavior is a form of communication. Explore three strategies to build stronger interactions, relationships, and communication with young children…
Families and guardians of children who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, blind, visually impaired, are invited to a FREE virtual training on December 10, 2022. Register today!
Learn about the Federal Quota Program and order AEM! Prepare for the upcoming annual Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students by ensuring students meet the eligibility guidelines and by obtaining parent permission.
Explore flexible collaborative planning, which are essential to ensuring that all students receive instruction that meets their needs, while flexing between face-to-face, hybrid, and virtual environments.
Discover five quick tips and tool for increasing access to multimedia curriculum and classroom-based materials with the FACTS: flashing images, audio description, captioning, timing, and sound quality.
On July 26, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will celebrate its 30th anniversary. This landmark civil rights legislation works to increase the inclusion of people with disabilities in aspects of community life.
Join us as we learn about barriers to and promoters of access to quality mental health care for people with disabilities.
People with disabilities have a right to equitable access to quality reproductive health services. Their access is often limited due to both physical and philosophical barriers.
How do we move from engaging to empowering families? It starts by including them as partners in education. Discover how Universal Design for Learning can boost engagement to meet families’ varying needs.
A brief introduction to the OCALI Resource Crosswalk and how to both access and utilize it.
Join our virtual roundtable series for health care professionals, which builds on the foundation established in Improving Outcomes 2022. The next session is October 24 at 12 p.m.
The Core Competencies in Health Care Education for People with Disabilities serve as a foundation for this 10-part series. Each session...
Join our virtual roundtable series for health professionals, which builds on the foundation established last year. This year will focus on population health, social determinants of health and people with disabilities.
Research shows that transition planning for students with disabilities leads to better employment, education and independent living. Learn more about Ohio's secondary transition planning practices for students.
Hear from experts as they discuss transition services to help students achieve their goals.
This introductory training series, with eight 1.5 hour sessions is designed for Ohio school-based teams that want to learn about Interoception and the Eighth Sensory System.
Join the Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness at OCALI for two free webinar opportunities.
Enhance your skills & build your foundation of knowledge in Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) in this free 2-day event. Attendance leads to PRT Level 1 certification. Register today!
Check out these networking meetings for professionals and educators serving the Deaf/HH community and the Blind/VI impaired community.
June 22: Should I tell my employer about my disabilities? Register to hear Michelle’s experience and learn the 5 Ws—who, what, where, when, why and how of disability disclosure.
Check out featured OCALI Lending Library resources, including social-emotional wellbeing, supporting family interactions, supporting independence in adolescence and adulthood, and more.
Peer relationships are important predictors of academic and life skills for students. Learn how this is being used to form support groups in districts with students who are deaf/HH.
Students with disabilities may encounter barriers within slide presentations that limit their access to information. Learn about the importance of accessibility and how to build an accessible presentation.
Explore the importance of planning for the transition to adult life and dispelling myths. Discover how multi-agency teams can work together with youth and families to…
Discover strategies and resources to understand what is (and what is not) the intent of age-appropriate transition assessment, as well as the implementation of transition assessment by a multi-agency team.
Join us Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. to learn how to make art activities more accessible for children! Professionals and parents are welcome.
Learn how Michelle made the transition between living alone in an apartment into a new house with roommates. Hear how this change for Michelle came with learning new skills and considerations for daily living.
Discover more topics and resources focused on young children and their families at the premier autism and disabilities conference.
Register now for the premier autism and disabilities conference. Hurry! $200 professional rate limited to first 750 attendees!
Culture is defined as “customs, languages, arts, and social achievements of a nation, people, or other social group.” Explore Deaf culture by honoring Ohio’s contributions as we celebrate Deaf History Month.
Join us Thursday, July 25, 2024 for Sensory-Friendly Day at the Ohio State Fair! Enjoy the rides without flashing lights or music; take part in the sensory activities, or find time to relax in our Quiet Room.
Hear how people with disabilities are being considered a population for the first time and how managed care plans are meeting the needs of their disabled members.
Ensuring all learners have access to curriculum starts with identifying their preferred communication mode. Discover how to identify learners’ preferred communication mode and what that means for access.
Hear directly from a district administrator who has been involved in multi-year implementation processes and experienced challenges and opportunities for growth along the way.
While the features of PBIS are the same across all grades, learn how implementing PBIS looks different for what is developmentally appropriate for our youngest students in grades preschool-grade 3.
Explore implementing PBIS at the high school level and hear how teams have overcome challenges unique to high school, including supports for students’ wellbeing, and how to incorporate student voice.
Hear how an elementary school team adapted PBIS implementation to be responsive to various cultures in their community and supportive of immigrant students and families making the transition into their school.
Explore ways to engage athletic coaches and staff in district-wide PBIS implementation; consider the connection between school-sponsored activities and district culture, and more.
Need professional development seat time? 24 different sessions are available from the AT Conference and Vendor Fair. A ½ hour of seat time is available for each session. Visit the AT Conference and Vendor Fair website!
Explore OCALI’s new online Age-Appropriate Transition Assessment Planning Guide to support the process for students with...
Join two parents of young adults with autism as they share their personal experiences using the free video resource, ASD...
Explore a data collection template that can be populated with Special Ed. Profile and other data for problem solving and examine a problem that challenges the service provision for learners with disabilities.
Save the date! OCALI partners with OOD, DODD, and ASCO on July 25, 2024 to make the Ohio State Fair more sensory-friendly by turning down the lights and volume. Learn more.
According to the Association for Community Living, at least 53 million people were providing informal, usually unpaid, care and support to aging family members and people of all ages with disabilities.
Planning to watch the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024? Check out this new social narrative to help provide your student or child with socially appropriate responses and expectations in a visual way.
Learn the basics of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and requirements to apply for SSI benefits.
June 14: Register and learn how STABLE accounts help individuals with disabilities save for eligible expenses, invest for future needs, and keep their benefits.
Early childhood settings have been dramatically impacted by COVID-19. Support for children to be resilient in times of stress and change is essential. Explore strategies to build resilience in young children.
Receive FREE graduate level credit this summer through Ashland University and the BEST Grant with the summer braille courses. Three courses available for registration now!
Join a panel of experts to learn how to serve families from different ethnic backgrounds to find resources to support the cultural and educational...
Explore antecedent-based interventions, which are evidence-based interventions that focus on identifying the conditions in the environment that may be contributing to interfering behavior.
Explores antecedent-based interventions for enriching the environment with sensory stimuli and activities to support emotional regulation for youth.
Since the pandemic, school districts and educators have had to ramp up their mental health and behavioral services to support student wellness. Learn how to strengthen partnerships with families and agencies.
Some students do not have a parent to represent them in special education matters and need someone acting on their behalf. Learn about surrogate parent requirements, supports, and training.
PBIS can be implemented in a virtual format. Hear from two educators who have incorporated creative ways to implementing PBIS while educating students online.
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Discover strategies for assessing learners who are deaf/hard of hearing (D/HH) or blind/visually (B/VI) impaired in online or hybrid environments, including the basics of telepsychology, and more.
Continue your journey of learning and discovery with our on-demand sessions. On-demand sessions are now open.
April 21: Gain a deeper understanding of ASD diagnosis and educational eligibility determination, insight into differences in presentation of ASD, and considerations for decisions about services and supports.
The Transition from School to Adult Life is an ongoing journey where there will be many summits to conquer.
Get a sneak peek at a new video series developed for Ohio school districts called PBIS: Supporting the Whole Child.
Learn more about what happens to the brain after an injury by attending this free Zoom webinar. Join us on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. for The Reading Brain: Before and After Brain Injury.
Explore ideas for how to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and explicit instruction frameworks to ensure that all students learn…
Introducing Third Thursday, a new monthly 1-hour webstream series designed for families of individuals with disabilities.
Discover 10 tips on how to develop a growth mindset in a virtual environment that will give educators, parents, and students the social-emotional confidence to move past their comfort zones.
Join us for 30-minute webinars brought to you by the Universal Design for Learning Center, which helps remove barriers to learning through purposeful planning that leads to meaningful instruction for all students.
From the Outreach Center for Deafness and Blindness: Explore and connect phonological awareness, phonics, writing, fluency, vocabulary, communication, language, and comprehension for learners who are D/HH or B/VI.
September 29 Join us for a FREE virtual event where vendors will share a variety of sessions showcasing state-of-the-art AT and remote learning options. Experience 1:1 vendor consultations. Register now.
Join us for a one-day event where 20+ vendors will share a variety of virtual sessions showcasing assistive technology and remote learning options.
A virtual event sharing information, experiences, and resources, including ASD Strategies in Action, with families and professionals supporting a person on the autism spectrum.
Explore how to create school-like environments at home that help students connect their perception of school and learning in their home.
Checklists help keep us organized. As we are multi-tasking in our professional and personal lives during this pandemic, checklists can take the edge off of thinking…
Learn how Michelle made the transition between living alone in an apartment into a new house with roommates. Hear how this change came with learning new skills and considerations for daily living.