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State Update of ASD Activities in Minnesota
MN State Autism Network Meeting
April 28, 2010
Overview
National and State Collaboration
Board of Teaching (BOT) proposal for ASD
Child Count Trends
Resources
National and State Collaboration
NPDC-ASD Initiative on Evidence Based Practices (Expansion Model Sites)
ASD/DD Learning Collaborative on screening and evaluation
ASD/IHE Research group work
MN Technical Assistance Task Force
NPDC-ASD ProjectMinnesota’s Strategic Plan
Goal…Provide professional development, and technical assistance that will increase the number of highly qualified personnel serving children and youth with ASD by:
– promoting evidence-based practices for early identification, intervention, and education;
– providing sustainable, outcome-based professional development and technical assistance that optimize existing state resources;
– establishing model sites that showcase evidence based practices (EBP);
– evaluating/measuring child, family, practitioner, and system level outcomes.
NPDC-ASD Initiative on Evidence Based Practices
Minnesota partners in capacity building– National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum
Disorders (NPDC-ASD), UW-Madison (Waisman Center)– MN Autism Network / State Low Incidence Project– MN Higher Education Partners
Expanding Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs)
Strategic Planning MIAPG and Leadership Team
NPDC-ASD ProjectActivity Timelines
Summer Institute - July 13-17, 2009 (Year 1)– Teams from 3 Model Sites– Trainers/TA Providers and Higher Education faculty – Implementation-EBPs embedded into training
Summer Institute – June 14-18, 2010 (Year 2)(Symposium & Team Training)
– Teams from 5 Expansion Model Sites and Coaches training – Implementation-EBPs embedded into training
3rd Year – 2011 and beyondSustainability efforts and integration into all training
NPDC-ASD Project Teams
Expansion Model Sites 2010-2011
Andover High School, Anoka/Hennepin School District Anoka ECSE Program, Anoka/Hennepin School District Austin ECSE Autism Program, Austin School Distric Howard Lake Middle School (4-8), MAWSECO District Redtail Ridge Elementary (K-5), Prior Lake-Savage Area
School District
ASD/DD Learning Collaborative on screening and evaluation
Goal…improved collaboration and coordination of screening, of evaluation, and of service resources at the community level.
Lead Agencies –MN Dept. of Health and MN Academy of Pediatrics
Clinical Practices, county and schools– Fairview Children’s Clinic, Minnetonka– Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital, Grand Rapids– Duluth Clinic-Hibbing, Hibbing– CentraCare, St. Cloud– Owatonna Clinic- Mayo Health System, Owatonna– South Lake Pediatrics, Eden Prairie– Children’s Hospitals and Specialty Clinics, Minneapolis
ASD/IHE Collaborative/Workgroups
Higher Education collaboration with MDE Research informing policy...Partnerships assessing the
impact of ASD on schools and how to support them – U of St. Thomas– St. Cloud St. U.– U of MN-Duluth– U of MN-Twin Cities– Hamline U– MN Department of Health
Technical Assistance Task Force for ASD ASD Licensure – future common implementation work
MN Technical Assistance Task Force (MN TATF)
Supported by MN LI Project and MDE
Task Force will consist of educational stakeholders (including regional and higher ed representatives)
Use existing resources/effort to “scale up” evidence based practices for ASD
Anticipating a framework/model to be developed by MN TATF over the next year
Minnesota 2009 Child Count Trends for ASD
Individuals Served under Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Category MN Child Count Data (Birth-21 yrs.)
331 434 551 726 9591284
17302242
2814
3759
4786
5929
7307
8691
9929
11314
12704
13879
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
12000
14000
16000
1992 - 2009
Annual Rate of Increase :Trends in Identification of ASD in Minnesota
Comparision of the annual rate of increase over the previous year
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
1997 - 2009
Minnesota…a closer lookDisability Categories as a Percentage within Special Education 2009 Child Count (N=126,108)
DCD:S-P
DCD:M-M
ASD
DD
OHD
EBD
S/L
SLD
DB
SMI
B/VI
TBI
PI
D/HH
ASD
Board of Teaching and ASD
Summary BOT- ASD Work Group
Goals: Review and edit existing “Proposed ASD Competencies”
To make recommendations regarding formal ASD competencies
Work Group: Lynn Peal-Mounds View, Tami Childs-Minneapolis,
Deb Peters-Northfield, Kari Dunn Buron-Hamline University, Ann Fox-Minneapolis Special Education Director
Board of Teaching and ASD
Recommendations:
BOT recommends the establishment of a license specific to ASD.
Elements emphasized by ASD Work Group– Emphasize competencies that focus on positive behavioral approaches that
are both proactive and designed to teach appropriate skills rather that approaches that are reactive and punitive.
– Require a supervised clinical, teaching experience for ASD license that includes students with ASD.
– Consider a process that validates competencies of staff who have been well prepared in alternate models (e.g. teaching experiences, University sponsored ASD Certificate and MA programs, etc.).
Board of Teaching and ASD
POSSIBLE TIMELINES BOT ASD Work Group Study & Recommendation Winter 2008
Phase I - Endorsement Model proposed by BOT Summer 2008 Phase II - Revision & Drafting of Proposed ASD Fall 2008 Phase III - BOT Receives recommendations Summer 2009
BOT Action - Rule making process (12-18 mo.) Spring 2010 – Winter 2011
Possible Adoption and Effective dates Spring 2011 ??
University programs revised Fall 2012 ??
Resources
MN Legislative Task Force on ASD website http://www.commissions.leg.state.mn.us/asd/asd.html
“Promising Practices: Effective Early Intervention in Autism” DVD– Somali version– Spanish version
IDEA Partnership Collection on ASD– Characteristics– Supports and Interventions
http://www.ideapartnership.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1493
