Trainings

Pathfinder is always interested in interacting and collaborating with other programs and agencies throughout the state. If you would like for Pathfinder to present at a meeting or conference, provide flyers or materials, or collaborate with your agency, please contact Program Director, Megan Hart at (615) 875-5082 or megan.hart@vumc.org

Archived Webinars

• Decision-Making as a Human Need [July 28, 2021]





• Navigating the Path to Assistive/Enabling Technology Resources in Tennessee [June 9, 2021]





• Dedramatizing Disability: ‘With the Eyes With Which You Look at Your Son, So Will the World’ [April 15, 2021]
  Online educational workshop in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation. Presented by Ana Clara Tortone, executive producer of "BETO the Series, a Transmedia Project on how to dedramatize disability as a key to success on the path to inclusion. Ana is a radio, TV, and TED Talk presenter and a mother of three children, one of them with Down syndrome.




• Navigating the Path to Special Education Support [March 18, 2021]
  This recorded training informs viewers about what special education support services and resources are available through different programs--Transition Tennessee, Tennessee Division of Special Populations, The Arc Tennessee's Family Engagement Program, STEP, Inc., and Pathfinder.




• Navigating the Path to Financial Assistance Resources [November 12, 2020]
  This recorded training informs viewers about what financial assistance resources are available through different programs--Family Support Program, Tennessee Department of Human Services, Tennessee Department of Health, Social Security, and Pathfinder.




• Navigating the Path to Specific Disability Services & Support in Middle TN [May 14, 2020]
  This recorded training informs viewers about what services are available through different organizations that serve specific types of disabilities--Autism Tennessee, Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee, Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Brain Injury Association of Tennessee, and Pathfinder.




• Say Dyslexia - Say WHAT?! Advocating for Students Under the Dyslexia Law
  This recorded training informs current and future advocates--parents, advocates, teachers, and trainees--specifically what to say and what not to say when you think a child needs testing, when you are seeing reading problems and seeking IEP accommodations through the IEP process, and when nothing is working is working for the best student outcome. The experts also include an overview of the law and appropriate tiered dyslexia-specific intervention through the Response to Intervention framework.




• "Linguistic Competence: Creating Better Access To Services" Webinar Series

• What You Need To Know About Linguistic Competence: Research and Resources [September 13, 2018]
  Cindy Brach, M.P.P, Senior Health Care Policy Researcher, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

• Promoting Healthcare Equity for Patients and Families with Limited English Proficiency [September 20, 2018]
  Lisa Ross De Camp, MD, MSPH, Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Department of Pediatrics

• Dissatisfied, Misdiagnosed, and at Risk to Die: Patients with Language Barriers and Why Their Lives Are Endangered by Not Providing Professional Interpreters or Bilingual Providers [October 4, 2018]
  Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP Chief Research Officer & Director, Health Services Research Institute, Connecticut Children's Medical Center; Associate Chair of Research & Professor Pediatrics, UConn School Medicine; Director, APA/NIDDK Research in Academic Pediatrics Initiative on Diversity (RAPID); Associate Editor, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Online Learning

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