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Successful Transitions - Planning for the Education and Employment Years
November 19, 2011
View the Event Flyer (PDF)
Logistics: Saturday, November 19, 2011; 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., University of Connecticut Health Center, 263 Farmington Avenue, Farmington, Connecticut 06030
Cost: $50 per person. This includes breakfast, lunch, and a conference binder.
What will be presented:
- Understand what a Fragile X Clinic can provide for an individual with Fragile X Associated Disorders
- Upcoming Fragile X (FX) Clinical Trials in Boston
- Lessons learned: FX clinical experience in pharmacology
- Transitions through the life span - demonstrating what steps are needed in order to make transitions easier
- Accommodations for hyperarousal as part of the IEP for any child with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS)
- Triggers of hyperarousal that commonly affect teens and adults. Strategies that teens and adults themselves can adopt to cope with unavoidable hyperarousal
- How FXS affects your young adult
- Transitioning to programs after high school
- Learn the difference between high school and college and how to prepare for those changes
- Information about college options for students with FXS, where the programs are located, and what supports are provided
- The importance of accessing services from the state system while the individual is still in school
- Documentation of eligibility, other state requirements
- Eligibility for Medicaid for virtually all state funded services fro adults. How those with FXS will be eligible
AAdditional Information: Payment and Registration must be received by November 7, 2011. Call Tammy and Andy Selinger at (860) 233-1904 or e-mail xfamily@aol.com or visit http://www.fragilex.org/html/ct_home.htm.
Registration: Registration Form for Conference (PDF)