"Getting The Most From Special Education" -Special presentation at December 13 Support Group Meeting

 We will have a special presentation, "Getting the Most from Special Education," at our Tuesday, December 13 morning meeting at Fairfax City Regional Library. 
 
Kelly Henderson, one of our NOFAS Virginia members, will give a short presentation on this topic, followed by a Q & A session.
 
I hope many of you will be able to make this special meeting. Please feel free to share this with your  friends and internet contacts. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
 
Lydia 

About Kelly Henderson

Kelly Henderson is founder and current Board chair of Formed Families Forward, a nonprofit organization that trains and supports foster, adoptive and kinship families of children with special needs in northern Virginia. A special educator by profession, Kelly has worked as a public school teacher of students with emotional and behavioral disorders, public policy specialist at a professional special education association, education research analyst at the federal level and, following the adoption of her children, a part-time consultant on special education research projects. Kelly holds a Ph.D. in special education from the University of Maryland, and is adjunct faculty at George Mason University. Kelly and her husband have three school-age sons, two of whom joined their family through public foster care and adoption. Her sons both benefited from early intervention and now receive special education and related services at their public elementary and middle schools.

Kelly has published extensively on topics that include foster care and adoption of children with special needs. She has trained many preservice and inservice teachers, as well as parents, on positive behavior management approaches. Kelly has also trained and advised foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers who are raising children with disabilities. In addition to participation in a number of professional organizations including the Families Committee of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Research, Kelly also serves as an active volunteer in several local parent organizations, among them the Fairfax County Public Schools Advisory Committee for Students with Disabilities and the Fairfax County Council of PTAs.