Click Play below to learn more about Abilities! programs with testimonials from (in order of appearance), Kathleen M. Rice, Ken Kunken, Ralph Shrader, Meredith DeDona, Daniel Porterfield, Kamilah Holder, Adeline Joshua, Elly & Stephen Hammerman, and Stephanie Hammerman.

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Special Announcements

WPIX, Channel 11 provided great coverage of Sports Night 2010, click Play below to view

Abilities! is involved in National and International
Presentations/ Dissemination efforts

Facilitating Vocational Self Concepts of Young Children with Disabilities - Annual National Conference of Council for Exceptional Children –Nashville , Tennessee. Fran Prezant ( co presenting with L. Marshak and C. Dandenau of Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Perspectives on Working with Music Teaching Artists-Annual National Conference of Council for Exceptional Children Nashville, Tennessee. Fran Prezant (co presenting with Dr. Kim McCord, Illinois State University)

Invited book signing Jossey-Bass Publishers- for A School Counselors Guide to Helping Students With Disabilities Fran Prezant ( with L. Marshak, C. Dandeneau, L’Amoreaux) @ Council for Exceptional Children Annual Conference

What’s in Your AAC Briefcase? Invited workshop for the Indiana Speech-Language-Hearing Association Convention. Indianapolis, Indiana. Goossens’, C.

Using E-Books to Train Motor Access. To be presented at the 14th International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain. Goossens’, C. & Mc Grath, K (July, 2010).

Aided Language Stimulation Update: Low Tech and High Tech Options. To be presented at the 14th International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain. Goossens’, C., Snyder, P., Bozsnyak, B., Burwell, M. & Morovich, K. (July, 2010).

Parents of Children with Special Needs. Smart Marriage Conference: Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couple Education. Orlando , Fl. Laura Marshak and Fran Prezant (July 2010).

Abilities! Facts

HVS

86% of respondents to the Henry Viscardi School 2007 graduate outcome survey were satisfied/very satisfied with their achievement in either post- secondary education or employment.
Respondents to the Henry Viscardi School 2007 graduate outcome survey indicated that HVS’ Independent Living House, Technology availability and Career Connections program helped prepare them for college or employment.
91% of respondents to the Henry Viscardi School 2007 graduate outcome survey agreed or strongly agreed that they were comfortable using technology for academic purposes.

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