Higher Education Consortium

Click here for PowerPoint presentations/handouts from the 2009 HEC Research Institute http://www.coe.uga.edu/csse/Summer_Institute/index.html. Mission
The mission of the Georgia Early Intervention Higher Education Consortium is to promote a value base and affect systems change within college and university faculty through developing and sharing strategies for collaboration in research and course design/infusion that incorporates appropriate family-centered early intervention content and interdisciplinary interests.
Goals
The mission of the Georgia Early Intervention Higher Education Consortium is supported by the following goals related to early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families:

	The Georgia Early Intervention Higher Education Consortium will work to expand college, university, and technical institute faculty's understanding of and collaboration in research and early intervention services across professional disciplines; and,
	The Georgia Early Intervention Higher Education Consortium will share information about issues in preservice and inservice personnel preparation and work to expand college, university, and technical institute faculty's understanding of the nature of interdisciplinary techniques and methodology currently used in personnel preparation.

	Membership in Georgia's HEC is open to those individuals who are faculty at a Georgia technical school, college, or university in one of the early intervention disciplines.
	If you are interested in joining please print the form below, complete and submit to Lynn Jaffe at: Dept. of Occupational Therapy, Medical College of GA, EF102, Augusta, GA 30912.

The Higher Education Consortium meets two times a year at locations throughout Georgia. Past topics included:
07/07/95	Telemedicine & Distance Learning
09/08/95	Goals and Mission
03/15/96	Articulation/Technical Schools
05/24/96	Technology/Internet
09/24/96	Parent Child Interaction
02/27/97	Best Practices in Inservice/Preservice Training
06/27/98	Autism
09/05/97	Cross- University Collaboration
03/06/98	NICU/Preemies
05/08/98	Parent/Professional Collaboration
06/16/98	Preemies
06/25/99	Case Method Instruction
09/09/99	Natural Environments
06/8-9/00	Developing Social Relationships
05/3-4/01	Collect, Select, Reflect: Adapting Early Childhood Practices and Materials to Honor the Diversity of our Children and Families
07/11-12/02	Transition


For additional information regarding Project SCEIs' HEC, please contact Dr. Diana Hammitte at 912-681-5600. View/Print out a copy of the HEC membership application.