Recording / Beyond the Minimums: Accessibility Webinar Series / Part 3: Disability Park Awareness Panel

Disability Park Awareness Panel

Meeting the minimum accessibility design standards for play and recreation areas is the first step to ensuring everyone can participate, enjoy, and experience park and play area facilities. During this session, a panel of individuals with disabilities and professionals who support persons with disabilities will discuss features that can “make or break” play and recreational opportunities for individuals with autism or who are neurodivergent or have developmental, physical, sensory, or communication needs. Strategies, design elements, barriers, and accessibility will be discussed from their unique perspective. We hope you will join us for this look beyond the minimum accessibility design standards to discover how your community can make your park and play areas more inclusive for everyone. This is the third session of a yearlong four-part Beyond the Minimums accessibility series. This webinar will feature real-time captioning and video remote interpreting (VRI). 

  1. Develop a statement of understanding that demonstrates the features that make a park or play area inclusive for everyone.
  2. Summarize the features and elements people with disabilities look for when choosing their recreational experiences.
  3. Evaluate existing park and play areas, and identify barriers that may restrict people with disabilities from being able to fully participate in the provided recreational opportunities.
  4. List two (2) helpful resources to obtain additional information or to utilize when evaluating new and existing park and play areas for inclusion.

William (Bill) Botten

Accessibility Consultant

PlayCore

Botten who currently works as an accessibility consultant joined the U.S. Access Board in 2000 and served for 22 years (retired in 2022) in several capacities while on staff including as a senior accessibility specialist, technical assistance coordinator, and the training coordinator. He was part of a team that developed the combined guidelines for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Architectural Barriers Act and was the lead staff for the development of guidelines and technical assistance materials for the rulemaking on outdoor developed areas. Bill specializes in accessibility issues related to recreation facilities and outdoor developed areas.

Kaelynn Partlow

Registered Behavior Technician; Cast Member from Netflix's Love on the Spectrum

Project Hope Foundation

Kaelynn was diagnosed with autism at the age of 10. Hired by Project Hope in 2015 as a Registered Behavior Technician, Kaelynn is now a Lead Technician, providing services to elementary and middle school clients and helping to develop staff training content.

Featured on Netflix's Love On The Spectrum in 2022, Kaelynn amplifies her impact as a speaker, author, and social media influencer, reaching millions worldwide in her mission for autism advocacy.

Damian Buchman

Founder & Executive Director

The Ability Center

As a two-time, 29-year, one-in-a-billion survivor of childhood cancer, Damian was an active teenager whose bone cancer diagnosis left him with an ambulatory disability at the age of 13. He quickly learned how to adapt to his “new normal,” today, he is an adaptive athlete, an adoptive father, and a successful social entrepreneur.

As in the years since his “recovery,” he has undergone 28 major knee surgeries, including a variety of replacements and revisions. His resulting disability gives him unique insights and passion into his quest to help and inspire others who face physical challenges in their lives.

Whether he’s playing and competing in a variety of adaptive sports (including wheelchair basketball, wheelchair tennis, mono-skiing, and wakeboarding, to name just a few), working with kids at various camps, or founding organizations such as The Opportunity Center, The Ability Center, and the Wisconsin Adaptive Sports Association, Damian always goes all out. 

Jules Edwards

Founder

Autistic, Typing

Jules Edwards is a neurodivergent Anishinaabe writer, gardener, accountant, and disability justice advocate. She is the parent of neurodivergent Afro Indigenous people, and care provider to many neurodivergent children throughout the years. Jules is passionate about building community and works to improve child safety and disability policy. Jules’ educational background includes a 2020-21 Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) fellowship, 2021-22 Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) National Training Director Council trainee, and 2022-23 Wilder Foundation Community Equity Program cohort member. Current roles include: care work of disabled youth, co-founder of Minnesota Autistic Alliance, board member for the Minnesota Ombudsman for American Indian Families, board member of The Arc Minnesota.  She serves as the elected chairperson of the Minnesota Autism Council, a workgroup of the Senate Human Services Reform Finance and Policy Committee. Her culture shapes her worldview and decision-making, and she is committed to making the community a better place for generations to come.

This session will offer the following credits:

    

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0.1 IACET CEU


CEUs for a total of 1 Professional Development Hours (0.1 IACET CEU) will be provided to learners meeting the following requirements: 

  • Be present for 95% of the duration of the learning event; 
  • Participate in activities and discussion throughout; 
  • Complete assessment with 80% mastery of learning outcome;
  • Complete feedback/evaluation survey.


CEUs can be applied toward NRPA CPRP/CPRE renewal and ACTCP certification. To obtain your CEU, please visit the "Event Details" tab above to complete the associated components for this event.

Instructor(s) Disclosures:

The instructors of this training webinar are employed by PlayCore and disclose an interest in attendees partnering with PlayCore on their play and recreation initiatives.


Speakers Disclosures:

The opinions of the speakers in these events do not necessarily reflect the views of PlayCore and its brands.


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Obtaining your CEU Credit
Step 1: Complete Disability Park Awareness Survey
9 Questions
Step 2: Complete Disability Park Awareness Quiz
10 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  80/100 points to pass
10 Questions  |  Unlimited attempts  |  80/100 points to pass
Step 3: Download Disability Park Awareness Certificate
1.00 (0.1 IACET CEU) credit  |  Certificate available
1.00 (0.1 IACET CEU) credit  |  Certificate available