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Parent Training and Information (PTI)

Parenting a child with a disability presents unique challenges, but you are not alone. The staff at the Parent Training and Information Center understands and can provide the help, support and information you may need. Since 1975, the New Hampshire Parent Training and Information Center (PTI) has been supporting families who have a child with a disability. PTI collaborates with families, schools and agencies thruoghout the state. Our vision is that all children with disabilities will have successful educational experiences that will prepare them to be actively involved in the community as adults.

Services and Resources include:
  • Telephone/e-mail support
  • Interactive workshops statewide
  • Handouts, articles and other useful information
  • Connection to resources
  • Parent Connection newsletter
  • Interactive website
  • Disability Awareness Kit
  • Advocates for Families of Children with Disabilities ~a fee for service program

Disability Awareness Activities
Get Up! Activity
Materials: 2 volunteers

Instructions: Have one person lie flat on his/her back on the floor. Your partner must now give you step-by-step directions on how to getup off the floor. (i.e. bend your right knee). If done in a group, have each person take a turn giving a direction

Discussion: This can be used to demonstrate a numer of disabilities such as cerebral palsy, spinal bifida, muscular dystrophy, attention deficit disorder, auditory procesing difficulty, mental retardation, autism, sensory integration difficulties.

Discuss the frustration felt because sucha seemingly simple task has such complex steps. What did it feel like to know what you had to do to get up but not be able to do it?

How could you establish support someone with this type of disability?

Phone Number Activity
Materials: Index Cards, Pencils

Instructions: Place the index card on your forehead. With the card on your forehead, write your telephone numer on it. Share your finished product.

Discussion: This demonstrates what it might be like to have a perceptual disability. Many childen are surprised to see their finished product ecause it "feels" like they wrote neatly and the numbers are not reversed.

How difficult was it to write when your paper was held in an unfamiliar position? How could you best support someone with this type of disability?

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