Florida Center for Inclusive Communities - FCIC

📢 Webinar: Understanding the Mental Health Challenges Autistics Often Face

🗓 Date: Monday, January 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST
🎤 Speaker: Charnell Widnall

Join us for an insightful session where you will:
✔ Build a foundational understanding of key co-occurring conditions
✔ Learn how these conditions impact daily life and mental health
✔ Discover effective supports for co-occurring conditions

Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your knowledge and support autistic individuals more effectively!

Register today!
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📢 Special Topics Graduate Course – Spring 2026
Studying Inferential Language in Childhood: Rationale, Methods, and Coding Systems

Curious about how children learn to reason, explain, and predict through conversations? This course dives into the role of inferential language during shared book-reading activities—both one-on-one and in classrooms.

You’ll learn:
✔ How to elicit and measure children’s exposure to inferential talk
✔ Coding authentic adult–child interaction transcripts
✔ Working with data from monolingual children and Dual Language Learners

By semester’s end, you’ll be ready to design studies exploring inferential language and its impact on comprehension and higher-order thinking.

📅 Term & Time: Spring 2026 | Thursdays, 5–7:45 PM
💻 Modality: Remote synchronous | 3 credit hours
👩‍🏫 Instructor: Maria S. Carlo
📩 Email [email protected] for enrollment permission.

Join Denise Barnes on Sunday, January 18th, 2026 and learn what Employment First means!

Register and learn more about the 33rd annual CARD Conference from January 16th-January 18th, 2026.
www.cardconference.info

Learn what Employment First is from Denise Barnes on Sunday, January 18th, 2026!

You can't miss our 33rd annual CARD Conference from January 16th-January 18th, 2026. For more info and registration, go to www.cardconference.info

If you live in Florida and care about improving services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, here's your chance to make a difference. The Florida Developmental Disabilities Council is inviting public comments on its next Five-Year State Plan (2026–2031).
Check out the priorities and share your feedback before November 30! 🗣️👇

Friendly Reminder! The Florida Developmental Disabilities Council (FDDC) is inviting public comment on its next Five-Year State Plan (2026–2031).

The Five-Year State Plan is a roadmap that guides how the Council works to improve the lives of Floridians with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).

Over the past 18 months, FDDC partnered with WellFlorida Council to collect input from more than 600 individuals, families, and community leaders. These insights helped identify key priorities for the next plan, including Access to Services, Behavioral Health and Challenging Behaviors, and Aging Families.

Public comments are open October 15–November 30, 2025, with a virtual comment session on December 2.

Read the full plan and share your feedback: https://www.fddc.org/notice-for-public-comment-5-year-state-plan/