Keynote Speaker:  Dr Sadia Batool

 Session Title: "Authentic partnership with families in Early Childhood Education: A Pathway to a Child’s Success at School and in Life"

Session Description:

  This presentation will feature the Pennsylvania Family Engagement Birth through College, Career, and Community Ready Framework and the inspiring dedication, commitment, and partnership of early intervention and early childhood professionals at the local and state level to ensuring young children and their families have a sense of belonging from the start and are prepared for future success in all aspects of life.

This interactive session will provide an opportunity to explore ideas, tools, and strategies to achieve the crucial combination of supporting families in their roles as parents, leaders and vital partners to in decision making at the program, local, state, and national level for a better and brighter future of the nation’s youngest citizens.

Breakout Speaker:  Sabrina Robertson

Session Title: "1,2,3 Come Learn With Me: Making Memories and Empowering Parents

Session Description

In this presentation, you will be introduced to techniques for developing and maintaining strong connections with parents. You will discover fresh approaches for fostering positive relationships and mastering the art of collaborating effectively with parents. Participants will learn new strategies to establish strong reciprocal relationships with parents.

Participants will learn how to partner with parents to build on their existing strengths to foster competence and confidence.

The core content area will be working with families of young children with special needs.

Closing presenter:  Tweety Yates

Session Title:  Empowering Families Through Connections and Relationships: What’s YOUR Story? 

Session Description

We often hear stories from families about their experiences in early intervention. Developmental Therapists are almost always part of these stories. In fact, DTs (YOU!) are often main characters in families’ stories. And just as you are part of their stories, they are also part of your stories! Keeping this in mind, let’s flip through some chapters of our ever-evolving early intervention stories. What will we learn? What practices and challenges will we find that help us continue to write our stories around connecting with families in a way that builds their competence and confidence in supporting their child’s development?