P.O. Box 202501 • Helena, MT 59620-2501
October 30, 2025, 2:30-4:00 | MonTECH: It's No Use If You Can't Reach It: Attaching Communication (and Other Devices) to Tables, Chairs, and Gait Trainers
November 10, 2025, 3:00-5:00 | EdCOR: Data Collection for Progress Monitoring
November 12, 2025 3:30-5:00 | Pyramid Educational Consultants: How to Say No and Live to Tell About It
November 17, 2025, 8:00-4:00 | (ADOS®-2) Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition, Refresher Training
December 1, 2025, 3:00-4:00 | EdCOR: Executive Function | Impulse Control, Working Memory, Emotional Control
December 5, 2025, 8:00-12:00 | Pyramid Educational Consultants: Effective Strategies for Classroom Support Staff
December 10, 2025, 2:30-4:00 | MonTECH: Implementing AAC Everywhere: on the Playground, in the Lunch Room, and in the Arts
December 11-12, 2025, 9:00-4:30 | PECS Level 1
January 13, 2026, 3:00-4:00 | EdCOR: Executive Function | Sustained Attention, Task Initiation, Planning & Prioritizing
February 11, 2026 11:30-1:00 | Pyramid Educational Consultants: Lost in Transition: Considerations for Working with Adolescents with ASD
February 11, 2026 3:00-4:00 | EdCOR: Executive Function | Organization, Time Management, Goal-Directed Persistence
November 12-14, 2025 | Butte | Montana Youth Transitions Conference
The OPI Special Education Para Pathways Project is a new initiative started in February 2025 to address the shortage of special education teachers in rural Montana. *OPI Renewal Units Available.
Visit the OPI Website for more information
Foundations of Evidence-Based Strategies: During this 10.5 hour free training series participants will learn practical strategies to develop social-communication and academic skills, positive behaviors, and independence. *OPI Renewal Units Available.
California Deafblind Services provides training to current paraeducators serving in the role of an intervener and individuals interested in this role through a partnership with the College of Professional and Global Education at San Francisco State University.
This online program uses content from the deafblind training modules developed by the National Center on Deafblindness and CDBS staff members serve as the online instructors of the course.
Students completing the training program receive a Certificate of Completion of Intervener Training from SFSU College of Professional and Global Education which demonstrates the candidate has completed formal intervener training.
The cost for two courses over two semesters (Fall 2025 and Spring 2026) will be $480 ($240 per course).
This paid subscription service bridges the gap between research and practice for speech-language pathologists. Members get access to quick, easy-to-digest, reviews of over 3000 research studies and articles from hundreds of journals. This service also includes ASHA CEUs in “bite size” chunks of time.
The original Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (AFIRM) was funded by the Office of Special Education Programs in the US Department of Education as a subcontract of the IRIS Center from 2014-2016 as an extension of the National Professional Development Center (NPDC) on Autism.
During the 2-year funding period, AFIRM developed 27 evidence-based practice (EBP) modules and related resources based on the 2014 NPDC EBP Report. AFIRM continues to provide free up-to-date EBP modules and resources based on the 2020 NCAEP EBP Report, as well as modules and resources designed specifically for paraeducators, early interventionists, and caregivers who served children and youth on the spectrum.
Katie Mattingley, Statewide Coordinator Montana Autism Education Project, 406-437-3874
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