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PROJECTS BY NAME

Achievement in Prevention & Excellence (APEX)

Achievement in Dropout Prevention and Excellence is a collaborative dropout prevention initiative of the State of New Hampshire, including 10 high schools that receive technical training and support from a team of professional staff from the Institute on Disability, the Alliance for Community Supports, Inc., and Main Street Academix, Inc. The grant is designed to assist the 10 high schools to substantially reduce their dropout rates using the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports school wide systems change model, and the RENEW individualized school-to career model.

Beyond Access

A four-year Model Demonstration Project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, that promotes improved learning of general education curriculum content by students with the most significant disabilities. The project assists school teams to learn, implement, and refine a student supports and team planning model that blends best practices in inclusive education, augmentative communication, collaborative teaming, and professional development.

Center for House and New Community Economics (CHANCE)

CHANCE's mission is to improve and increase access to integrated, affordable, and accessible housing coordinated with, but separate from, personal assistance and supportive services. CHANCE's purpose will be to offer alternatives to approaches that segregate, congregate, and control people with disabilities.

Early Markers

Early Markers is a research project that attempts to improve our understanding and identification of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in infants and toddlers through careful developmental monitoring of infant siblings of children with autism in both clinic and home settings. These infant siblings are at increased genetic risk to also develop ASD and provide a unique window into the earliest manifestations of ASD.

Equity & Excellence

This project, entitled Equity and Excellence in Higher Education, is designed to address the interrelated problems of poor educational outcomes for college students with disabilities and college faculty's lack of knowledge in the area of effective curriculum and instruction for diverse learners.

Granite Ladders

Granite Ladders is an experimental study of an early literacy preschool curriculum, Ladders to Literacy, on the pre-reading and writing skills of young children living in poverty in New Hampshire.

Home Care Connections

The goal of HCC is to identify and work to overcome the barriers that prevent Medicaid-eligible older adults and adults with disabilities, particularly cognitive/behavioral issues, from remaining in their own homes and communities. The focus is on "aging-in-place." The project is designed to develop and/or enhance systems that encourage and foster collaboration and cooperation of existing housing and support networks.

Innovation Facilitators

As a centralized resource for training, process facilitation, and technical assistance, IF?s mission is to advance the standards of excellence in person-centered planning through the support of practitioners, persons with disabilities, families, and personal support teams.

Jumpstart

Jumpstart is a project designed to offer a model of individualized support to New Hampshire families and providers in order to support young children who have autism or autism-like characteristics. Jumpstart provides comprehensive, individualized support with a core of three important elements: development of functional communication skills, supported participation in socially inclusive environments, and multi-faceted family support.

Maternal & Child Health Leadership

Medical Home Improvement Center

Microboards

"Microboards" are an innovative and promising alternative for assisting individuals with disabilities to identify personal goals and for making funding resources more flexible and individualized in order to reach those goals.

The New Hampshire Alliance for Leadership Education Excellence in Caring for Children with Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (NH-LEND Program)

The purpose of the NH-LEND Program is to prepare professionals in health care and related disciplines to assume leadership positions in the provision of health and related services and social supports for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their families.

NH Leadership Series

Through the courses, leaders emerge who have a clear vision, knowledge about state-of-the-art supports for individuals with disabilities, and skills necessary for advocating with service providers. They know how to use the legislative process to achieve change, and how to organize communities to support inclusion. The Leadership Series enhances the ability of people and families to change laws, persuade schools and businesses to include individuals with disabilities, and educate communities about the importance of welcoming and including every member.

NH Resource Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders

The New Hampshire Resource Center for Autism offers Academic Initiatives: Ph.D. Program: Preparing Leadership Personnel in the Area of Educating and Supporting Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (Project LEAD); a Graduate Certificate in Autism Spectrum Disorders; Research Initiatives: the Early markers and Beyond Access Projects; and Professional Development and Technical Assistance: Jumpstart; Communication Skill Builders; On?Site Technical Assistance and Training; Annual Autism Summer Institute; and the Autism National Committee Bookstore.

Preparing Leadership Personnel in the Area of ASD

In 2003, the Institute on Disability/UCED, at the University of New Hampshire, received a four-year grant from U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, for Project LEAD - Preparing Leadership Personnel in the Area of Educating and Supporting Children and Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The purpose of the grant is to prepare leaders in teaching, research, public policy, and advocacy. When the grant project ends, the specialization on ASD will remain as a permanent part of the Ph.D. program in Education at the University of New Hampshire.

Real Choice Systems Transformation

The Real Choice Systems Change project is designed to create and implement improvements in community-based care systems in order to improve health and long-term care services and supports that assist people with disabilities and long-term illnesses to live in the community.

Response to Intervention for Literacy

The Response-To-Intervention model (RTI) is a system of support for struggling students. The intent of the model is to provide targeted support to these students in an attempt to improve reading, writing and communication skills before referring them to the special education system.

Seacoast Child Development Clinic

The Mission of the Seacoast Child Development Clinic is to promote a child's strengths to achieve his or her full and meaningful participation in the community. Heaher Olds working with a child attending clinic We provide interdisciplinary evaluation and consultation to assist families of children who have developmental challenges to make informed decisions regarding medical, developmental, and educational needs. These services are family centered and culturally sensitive.