This year’s TSD Conference will offer the following courses that qualify for the NAPT Special Needs Transportation (SNT) training program. For more information on the program, visit
www.napt.org.
Basics of Special Needs Transportation — SNT 101 *Child Passenger Safety Restraint Systems on School Buses — SNT 102 Rodeo — SNT 103 Special Needs Trade Show — SNT 104 Managing Behaviors of Students with Special Needs — SNT 105 Parsing Gray Areas in Special Needs Transportation — SNT 106 Punished, Protected or Prisoner: Restraint Consid- erations in Law, Operations and Practice — SNT 106
* Three CEUs available from Safe Kids Worldwide
£ TSD Conference presentations feature an array of student transportation experts who give different perspectives to attendees.
L
orraine Miles was new to her posi- tion at the Canyon School District in Sandy, Utah, when it split from the Jordan School District four years
ago. Coming from another position at Jordan, she needed to learn everything about being a special education route coordinator. Jordan district officials suggested that she attend the Transporting Students with Disabilities & Preschoolers National Con- ference to learn more, and she was glad she did. She attended the 2010 conference in Orlando, Fla., and learned a lot more than she anticipated. “I found the show to be valuable because I
learned about topics other than routing, like laws, regulations and safety (related to students with special needs),” said Miles, who will be at next month’s conference in Frisco, Texas, and not just by herself. “I was able to get our entire special-ed
department to go with me,” she added. Tanks to Miles attending the conference, she was able to pass along information and resources to not only her department, but to teachers and other school officials who deal with students with special needs, and she looks to do the same this year. Tis sharing of information ignites a communication bond between special needs educators and trans- portation officials, a simple yet sometimes challenging task. Hundreds of student transporters from
across the country will be joining Miles at the 22nd TSD Conference. Set for March 8-13 at the Embassy Suites Dallas-Frisco Hotel and Convention Center, the conference will
cover the most relevant operational and safety topics on transporting children with special needs through workshops and hands-on training. It also will offer training catered to Head Start and preschool operations. And, of course, the conference wouldn’t be complete without the 16th National Special Needs Team Safety Rodeo (see sidebar on page 44). A slew of general sessions are scheduled at
this year’s conference. Te four-hour block on Sunday, March 10 will focus on child safety restraint systems (CSRS), namely evacua- tion planning, how to properly care for and maintain equipment, and consideration of laws, operations and practices. A two-hour general session the following
morning will cover travel education by ad- dressing transportation’s contribution to special education and how the school bus can prepare those students for independence as adults with public transit services. Te final one-hour gen- eral session on March 12 will address ways of communicating and building positive relation- ships with parents. Te six-day conference will welcome a
range of speakers and presenters, such as special needs transportation consultant Cheryl Wolf; Sue Shutrump, supervisor of occu- pational therapy services for the Trumbull County Education Service Center; attorney Peggy Burns of the Education Compliance Group; Charley Kennington of Innovative Transportation Solutions; Jocelyn Taylor, autism eligibility and education specialist at the Utah Department of Education; and Brian Weisinger, director of transportation at Spring (Texas) ISD, among others. »
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