RESOURCES
Augusta Levy Learning Center is a resource for area school districts in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Educating children with autism effectively is an immense challenge. It requires a huge commitment, great skill and parent involvement. The Center is able to centralize those skills so that it can partner with area school districts in meeting this challenge.
The Center also has a lending library available to the community..
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
Augusta Levy Learning Center conducts community workshops and trainings for parents, educators, and child care providers.
Past workshops and trainings include:
| • Wrightslaw Workshop: IDEA 2004 and No Child Left Behind (co-sponsored by Bethany College’s Education Program), September 2005 and October 2006 |
| • What is Autism? – Child Care Resource Center, October 2005 |
| • Autism Awareness in the Classroom – Northern Panhandle Head Start, November 2006 |
| • An Introduction to Autism – The Children’s Home of Wheeling, March 2007 |
| • An Introduction to Autism – Augusta Levy Learning Center, April 2007 |
| • Autism II course - Bethany College, Spring 2007 - Summer 2009 |
| • Positive Classroom Management - Wheeling Country Day School, August 2009 |
| • The Autism Spectrum - West Liberty State College, March - May 2008 |
| • Autism in your practice - Wheeling Hospital Family Health Center, April 2008 |
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Augusta Levy Learning Center has established collaborations in the community that benefit the Levy Center’s students, as well as our community partners. Partnerships with Bethany College and Wheeling Jesuit University provide internships and student teaching opportunities that afford students hands-on experience in the field of autism.
Other community partners include West Liberty University, West Virginia University, Northern Panhandle Head Start, Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention, Laughlin Memorial Chapel, and Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
