Adapting Programs for Inclusion
Wednesday, April 22 | 1:30pm - 1:50pm
Session Description: This session allows participants to the chance to dig deeper into specific adaptations they can make to their programs to allow inclusion. Presented in an audience participation format, participants will have a chance to both learn ways to adapt programs for inlclusion plus share their own examples of adaptation and ask specific questions to the presenters and the group about adaptations that can be made to the their specific program.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn ways to adapt programs for inclusion through examples shared by presenters.
- Gain a deeper knowledge of adapting programs for inclusion.
- Walk away with answer to specific questions participants have about inclusion in their own programs.
Speakers: Kim Indurkar, Mary Boyle
About the Speakers: Kim Indurkar manages the Highland Community Center for the City of Bellevue. She has worked in the field of disabilities for 41 years. Working in residential, school and community settings over her long career she now focuses on training general recreation staff on inclusion services for programs. She has completed the 2018 update on the Choices Plan for People with Disabilities. This plan outlines the policies and procedures for inclusion and ADA compliance for the Parks and Community Services Department. She is the department liaison working with the City’s ADA administrator on a variety of compliance requirements.
Mary Boyle has a BA in psychology and specializes in behavior modification techniques. She is the inclusion coordinator for the park’s recreation division focusing on training general recreation staff on inclusion services for programs and provides support to staff for program modifications. She is responsible for the adaptive recreation programs held at the Highland Community Center serving adults and youth with physical and intellectual disabilities.
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