GABRIELLA VOLPE

Gabriella Volpe is a home educating mother to a disabled teen, a licenced teacher, and educational consultant for families of chronically ill/disabled and neurodivergent students. She regards home education as a resistance to systems that have excluded individuals like her son for decades. Alternative education is her quiet protest to institutionalization and oppression. In her little corner of the world, Gabriella helps parents with educational accessibility through equity-centered approaches. You can find her at www.GabriellaVolpe.com

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2021 CONFERENCE SESSION

SESSION: HOW INTERNALIZED ABLEISM INFORMS HOW WE APPROACH EDUCATION

When we label children as "struggling learners," our inclination is to remediate. We focus on what the student cannot do, and we
frequently find ourselves frustrated. Whether a child has a diagnosis or not, we approach their education from what we know, what we believe, and what we were taught about how children learn. In guiding education, we need to acknowledge our own unconscious, internalized ableism. In this presentation, you'll learn to recognize how you've been conditioned by societal biases against disabled and neurodivergent learners. You’ll also discover a framework that takes you through the process of dismantling your internalized ableism so that you can offer humanizing learning opportunities to your children.

SESSION DATE: FEB 4TH. 

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SESSION:HOW TO ADAPT CURRICULUM FOR DISABLED OR NEURODIVERGENT LEARNERS

Are you looking for the ideal curriculum for Disabled and Neurodivergent Learners? What if you could use already-existing curriculum and adapt it to your child--no matter the diagnosis? Learn to reuse curriculum you already own or one you have been eyeing and still meet your child at their developmental level. Strategies provided will suit first-year to experienced homeschoolers, and the ideas can be applied the very next day!