Disability Training and Education at Through the Looking Glass

TLG offers trainings and presentations regarding families with disabilities locally, nationally and internationally. Since 1982, Through the Looking Glass staff has conducted trainings, presentations, and workshops regarding families with disabilities to over 225,000 parents and professionals during local, regional, national and international conferences, meetings, and workshops.  We also have provided consultation to individuals, groups, or organizations to expand services or develop new services and best practice models for parents with disabilities.

Topics

Our overall goal is to increase knowledge in the following areas:

  • Families with an infant, child, parent or grandparent with a disability or medical issue
  • Specific populations such as parents with physical disabilities, blind parents, or parents with intellectual disabilities
  • Infant mental health
  • Family systems
  • Infant and child development
  • Relationship-based early intervention
  • Parenting adaptations/Occupational Therapy practice
  • Home visiting
  • TLG’s intervention model
Audience

In addition to parents, grandparents, family members and advocates, our professional audiences have included: attorneys, occupational therapists, physical therapists, early childhood and early intervention practitioners, public health nurses, childbirth educators, perinatal workers, primary and secondary school counselors and teachers, child protective service workers, independent living workers, adoption workers, obstetricians, pediatricians, mental health practitioners, and student trainees in these professional fields. TLG staff has conducted trainings and presentations in all 50 U.S. states as well as the United Nations, and to people from 55 countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia. TLG has also hosted three international conferences on Parenting with a Disability.

Trainers

TLG staff has been highly rated in training diverse audiences, and frequently train groups that are extremely varied in professional discipline, disability experience and culture. Our trainings are based on TLG’s cumulative knowledge of critical issues affecting parents with disabilities and their families: 40 years of nationally-recognized intervention services to babies, children or parents with disabilities and their families: TLG’s research findings from multiple national studies; national technical assistance to thousands of parents, family members and professionals; the staff’s strong personal and family ties to disability communities; ongoing reviews of local, national and international work concerning parents with disabilities. This knowledge provides broad and in-depth perspectives on issues affecting children and parents with disabilities.

Cost

The fees for a TLG training or presentation depend upon the scope of what’s being asked – the length of the training or presentation, the number of TLG staff involved, the size of the audience, whether or not travel is involved. In some cases, we may have special grant funding that can supplement the costs an inviting agency or organization is able to cover. Please contact us and we can discuss the details and options available.


See: Highlights of Previous Trainings, Presentations and Workshops (PDF)