BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//www.dsamidlands.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:f1bb1462-e728-4228-a5fb-79a9e036959e X-WR-CALDESC:The Down Syndrome Education Series (DSES) is a monthly educati onal seminar for families of children with Down syndrome\, designed to con nect parents and community members with information that will positively i mpact the education and well-being of individuals with Down syndrome.\n\nT opic - Social Boundaries Using the Circles Curriculum\n\nCircles- What is it?\nâ—Ź The Circles Curriculum focuses on teaching social and relationship boundaries\, interpersonal skills and relationship-specific social skills. \nânâ The program uses a simple multi-layer colored circle diagram to demons trate the different relationship levels students will encounter in daily l ife.\nâ—Ź Starting from the center circle\, which is self\, each new color r epresents behaviors\, feelings\, and actions appropriate to the distance f rom the center or self.\n\nThe original Circles Paradigm was conceived and written by Marklyn P. Champagne\, RN\, MSW and Leslie Walker-Hirsch\, IME d\, FAAIDD.\n\nSpeaker - Leslie Walker-Hirsch\, IMEd\, FAAIDD\nBio - Lesli e Walker-Hirsch is a social development and sexuality consultant and a Fel low of the AAIDD. She has been a driving force in promoting sexual safety\ , rights and responsibilities for people with intellectual disability. She is the co-creator of the CIRCLES® Curriculum Series\, a multimedia teachi ng tool designed especially to address the varied and unique learning styl es of learners with intellectual limitations and developmental delays. The curriculum provides information regarding social/sexual expression and se xual safety that their typically developing peers would be exposed to\, bu t in a manner that is meaningful and understandable to those with idiosync ratic learning styles. \nMs. Walker-Hirsch has provided training and consu ltation to families and professionals in nearly every US state and numerou s foreign countries regarding the interface of sexuality and intellectual disability and has written numerous articles. \n\n*Registration will close Monday\, January 14th at 10am. Please contact Leah at janke@dsamidlands.o rg if you miss the deadline and would like to attend. \n**Childcare is not provided. With the exception of infants\, we request that you refrain fr om bringing children to this event. X-WR-RELCALID:d89cdd2bf16ad83ec0fc660495e6888f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RDATE:20191103T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20190310T020000 RDATE:20200308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:031253ac-a2d6-446d-b2c3-8448b1b78859 DTSTAMP:20260502T105704Z DESCRIPTION:The Down Syndrome Education Series (DSES) is a monthly educatio nal seminar for families of children with Down syndrome\, designed to conn ect parents and community members with information that will positively im pact the education and well-being of individuals with Down syndrome.\n\nTo pic - Social Boundaries Using the Circles Curriculum\n\nCircles- What is i t?\nâ—Ź The Circles Curriculum focuses on teaching social and relationship b oundaries\, interpersonal skills and relationship-specific social skills. \nânâ The program uses a simple multi-layer colored circle diagram to demons trate the different relationship levels students will encounter in daily l ife.\nâ—Ź Starting from the center circle\, which is self\, each new color r epresents behaviors\, feelings\, and actions appropriate to the distance f rom the center or self.\n\nThe original Circles Paradigm was conceived and written by Marklyn P. Champagne\, RN\, MSW and Leslie Walker-Hirsch\, IME d\, FAAIDD.\n\nSpeaker - Leslie Walker-Hirsch\, IMEd\, FAAIDD\nBio - Lesli e Walker-Hirsch is a social development and sexuality consultant and a Fel low of the AAIDD. She has been a driving force in promoting sexual safety\ , rights and responsibilities for people with intellectual disability. She is the co-creator of the CIRCLES® Curriculum Series\, a multimedia teachi ng tool designed especially to address the varied and unique learning styl es of learners with intellectual limitations and developmental delays. The curriculum provides information regarding social/sexual expression and se xual safety that their typically developing peers would be exposed to\, bu t in a manner that is meaningful and understandable to those with idiosync ratic learning styles. \nMs. Walker-Hirsch has provided training and consu ltation to families and professionals in nearly every US state and numerou s foreign countries regarding the interface of sexuality and intellectual disability and has written numerous articles. \n\n*Registration will close Monday\, January 14th at 10am. Please contact Leah at janke@dsamidlands.o rg if you miss the deadline and would like to attend. \n**Childcare is not provided. With the exception of infants\, we request that you refrain fr om bringing children to this event. DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190115T180000 LOCATION:UNO Community Engagement Center Room 231 SUMMARY:DSES - Educator Session - Social Boundaries Using the Circles® Curr iculum END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR