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"You cannot be responsible for your own family without being responsible for the society and the environment in which they live."

—Justin Dart

Resources

The following products have been developed by the FCIC faculty and staff and are available at cost for production and shipping or for download.

FCIC Facts Sheets

Advocating for Yourself & Others: English version | Spanish version
Customized Employment: English version | Spanish version
Discovery Vocational Profiles: English version | Spanish version
FCIC Overview: English version | Spanish version
Inclusion: English version | Spanish version
Positive Behavior Supports: English version | Spanish version

FCIC Health and Wellness Brochures

The FCIC has developed health and wellness brochures to provide individuals with developmental disabilities with important information about living a healthy life. All brochures are available to download as pdfs documents from the links below.

Nutrition English version | Spanish version
Physical Activity English version | Spanish version
Sleep English version | Spanish version
Oral Health English version | Spanish version
Infant Oral Health English version | Spanish version
Protection from Abuse & Exploitation English version | Spanish version

Commonly Used DD Acronyms & Abbreviations

People with disabilities, parents, teachers, caregivers and professionals in the disability world have their own language, often referred to as “Alphabet Soup” because it is a mess of acronyms and abbreviations. People not familiar with to this world often talk about how confusing it is. Here is a simple glossary of the acronyms and abbreviations. If you have any suggestions for additions to this glossary, please contact Nila Benito benito@fmhi.usf.edu

Teaching Tools Files

The Teaching Tools are intended to assist teachers in problem-solving a plan to support young children who are having challenging behavior. The teaching tools product is available for download and works best if loaded to your hard drive in a folder or burned to a CD-ROM.

Program-Wide Positive Behavior Support

This booklet provides a report on the program-wide implementation of the "Teaching Pyramid", a model of program-wide Positive Behavior Support for early childhood applications, within a Head Start Program.

Positive Solutions for Families

This downloadable brochure is offered for early childhood programs to print and provide to families of young children. The brochure is also available in Spanish.

Positive Beginnings Training Modules

The Positive Beginnings training modules provide higher education faculty and professional development personnel with material that can be used to teach early educators, interventionists, and related service personnel about the use of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) with young children and their families

Recommended Practices Handouts

These free, downloadable fact sheets were developed to provide information on recommended practices for supporting young children with challenging behavior and their families. Reproduction and distribution is encouraged.

Believe in One, Believe in All

This down-loadable, free multimedia presentation illustrates the experiences of a student with autism included in a third grade classroom, along with the reactions, feelings, and beliefs of his support team members and peers.

Positive Educational Planning

This free, downloadable booklet provides a portfolio families can use to gather and share priorities and insights about their child in preparation for educational or service planning activities. Included within the form are sections that guide families to describe their child, share perspectives on their child's learning characteristics and identify desired outcomes.

I have a Friend with Autism

This free, downloadable brochure provides children with information on autism emphasizing that children with autism are more alike, than different from their peers.

Family Involvement in Functional Assessment

This free, downloadable manual provides teachers with guidance on how to involve families in the functional assessment and behavior support plan development process. A step-by-step process is described and helpful forms are provided.

Facilitator’s Guide: Positive Behavior Support

This free, downloadable guide provides facilitators of individualized positive behavior support with guidelines for conducting a functional assessment and developing a behavior support plan. Useful forms may be copied and used in the planning process.