It's National Assistive Technology Awareness Day!
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Let’s celebrate Assistive Technology today…and every day!
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LTVEC News and Events
Progress Beyond Paper Scholarship Winner Announced
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Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative (LTVEC) is excited to announce the winner of our annual teacher scholarship, Ms. Miranda Brakebill of Eaton Elementary! This year’s scholarship “Progress Beyond Paper,” is geared for teachers serving exceptional students.
Read MoreAAC Assessment … Where Do We Start?
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LTVEC is proud to present AAC Assessment … Where do We Start?: AAC Skills Assessment & Intervention for the SLP, a professional development workshop by Vicki Clarke, CEO of Dynamic Therapy Associates, Director of DTA Schools, and writer of the AAC Assessment Corner Series on the hugely popular blog, Praactical AAC.
Read MoreThank You for a Successful Autism Helper Workshop!
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Little TN Valley just wants to thank Sasha Long from The Autism Helper and YOU for making both our Knoxville and Murfreesboro workshops such a success!
Read MoreAAC and Autism in Tennessee
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Thank you to Autism Society East Tennessee and everyone who attended the Tri-Cites Autism Educational Conference at Northeast State Community College this weekend!
Read MoreLTVEC Extended Learning Director Becomes a Mentor
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Our extended learning director, Jana Hackworth, recently took an additional position as an extended learning mentor for the TN Department of Education.
Read MoreThe Autism Helper Workshop "Behavior Change: the Good, the Bad & the Ugly"
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This full day workshop will offer practical solutions to foster increases in positive behaviors and decreases in problem behaviors. This session will begin by exploring how to apply these strategies to everyday situations in an applicable and proactive way. This approach will focus on the changing outcomes of behaviors by looking at the entire context and approaching behavior from a function based perspective. Audience members will learn how to conduct a thorough Functional Behavior Assessment, select appropriate and function-based strategies, and analyze data to determine growth and next steps. This workshop highlights ready-to-use interventions and real-life scenarios. The concepts can be applied to a wide range of environments.
Read MoreThe Power of Play in Assistive Technology: Xbox Adaptive Controller
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Have you heard about the best part of the Super Bowl this year? The Microsoft commercial for their new Xbox adaptive controller touched hearts and absolutely stole the show! Little TN Valley has an AT Center, which provides assistive technology to kids so that they can communicate and participate in school and in society — that includes not only ways to learn and work, but ways to play too! Just like the tag line in the commercial, "When Everybody plays, we all win."
Read MoreTennessee Representatives Kent Calfee and Lowell Russell Join LTVEC in Honoring our Educators
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Tennessee Representatives Kent Calfee and Lowell Russell joined Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative (LTVEC) in honoring our educators when we hosted our annual Awards Banquet for exceptional local educators.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Loudon County Schools Exemplary Educators at Awards Banquet
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Two deserving educators from Loudon County Schools were honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education: Lana Costner, Loudon High School Special Education Paraprofessional and Julia Bunch, Loudon County Schools Central Office Special Education Administrative Assistant.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Lenoir City Schools Exemplary Educators at Awards Banquet
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Two deserving educators from Lenoir City Schools were honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education: Rachel Ogle, Lenoir City Intermediate/Middle School Math Teacher and Wendy Jones, Lenoir City Elementary School 1st Grade Teacher.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Monroe County Schools Exemplary Educators
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Two deserving educators from Monroe County Schools were honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education: Lauren Kyle, Sweetwater High School English Teacher and Deanne Kirkland, Rural Vale School ELA Teacher.
Read MoreSweetwater City Schools Exemplary Educator Award Winners
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Two deserving educators from Sweetwater City Schools were honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education: Debbie Hutchins, Sweetwater Primary School Speech Therapist and Abbey Krauskopf, Brown Intermediate School Special Education Teacher.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Board Member Jim McCarroll with Exemplary Service Recognition Award
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Outgoing LTVEC Board Member, Jim McCarroll, was honored with the Exemplary Service Recognition Award for believing in our mission and offering invaluable leadership and support.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Sandra Hoyos as an Exemplary Educator
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Sandra Hoyos, LTVEC Birth-to-Three Program Early Interventionist, was honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education.
Read MoreLTVEC Honors Anne Talmont as an Exemplary Educator
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Anne Talmont, LTVEC After School Program Site Coordinator at Lenoir City Elementary School, was honored with the Exemplary Educator Recognition Award for Dedication to Excellence in Education.
Read MoreTaking a Look Back at Past LTVEC Awards Banquets
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LTVEC has been handing out awards for exceptional educators for many years now! Take a look back at just some of them…
Read MoreLTVEC Annual Awards Banquet Scheduled
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Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative’s annual Awards Banquet is scheduled for Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 5:30 pm at Country Kinfolk in Lenoir City. We are looking forward to this special event to honor our exceptional educators!
Read MoreLittle Tennessee Valley Hosts Open House
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Recently elected Tennessee state representative Lowell Russell spent time during the open house learning about the special services offered by LTVEC. “I am very glad I attended the LTVEC open house. The agency is doing great things in education,” Russell said, “and we all can learn so much from them.”
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