• Principal Media Producer
Email
petem@umn.edu
Phone
+1 612-626-0246
Address
Masonic Institute on the Developing Brain
Rm 2-315c [map]
2025 E River Pkwy
MInneapolis, MN 55414

Products

Direct Support Professionals and the COVID-19 Vaccine

This 11-minute webinar addresses COVID-19 vaccinations for direct support professionals. Topics include: The reasons why people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are more vulnerable …

Published: 2/24/2022

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Checking Progress at Home

This video describes easy ways for parents to check on their child's progress in academics and behavior while learning at home. It also suggests ways to talk to the school about a child's progress …

Published: July 2021

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Academics at Home

This video provides parents of students with disabilities, specifically those with the most significant cognitive disabilities, with tips on how to support their child’s standards-based instruction…

Published: November 2020

MTI Success Stories: Udac

For decades, Udac offered center-based employment opportunities that paid subminimum wages to employees with disabilities, which is legal under federal law. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic spurred …

Published: 2023

MTI Success Stories: Kaposia

Founded in 1963, Kaposia is a Minnesota nonprofit agency based in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, providing customized employment services for people with disabilities and retirement …

Published: 2024

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Writing at Home

This video describes practical ways to support students with significant cognitive disabilities as they grow in their writing skills. It also describes the types of supports a parent can ask for …

Published: July 2021

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Reading at Home

This video describes ways parents of students with disabilities can help their child with the foundations of reading while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on foundations …

Published: March 2021

Community Living and Participation: Employment

A profile of Best Buy employee Tamir Tsogsbaatar. This video is a companion to Tamir's personal story in the book Community Living and Participation for People With Intellectual and Developmental …

Published: 10/29/2019

MTI Success Stories: Customized Employment in Action

As a leader for decades in connecting people to competitive, integrated employment, Kaposia, an employment services provider in Minnesota, has upended the traditional job search process. Instead …

Published: 2023

In Our Own Words: Improving Care for People with Disabilities - Part Two "Understanding"

"In Our Own Words: Improving Care for People with Disabilities" is a two-part series produced by Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's Minnesota Disability Law Center. It is a series of insightful interviews …

Published: 2023

MTI Success Stories: Getting Buy-in from Stakeholders with PHASE Industries

PHASE-Industries is a day and employment provider serving people with disabilities in rural Minnesota. In 2024, PHASE-Industries ended its center-based, subminimum wage service model and is …

Published: 2024

Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Consent and Sexual Relationships: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities

When adults want a relationship with each other, they should make choices together about what the relationship should look like. This consent helps both people feel good about the relationship. …

Published: 3/4/2024

Bhutan's Future Challenge: Meaningful Work for People with Disabilities

This short video is based on a visit of 18 Bhutanese professionals and parents to Minnesota. It highlights an international collaboration between the Royal Thimphu College in Bhutan, the University…

Published: 2/17/2020

Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities

For people with developmental disabilities, being a sexual self-advocate is about speaking up for what they want in their lives, how they dress, and having relationships and sexual experiences. It …

Published: 3/4/2024

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Reading at Home

This video describes ways parents of students with significant cognitive disabilities can help their child expand reading skills while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on …

Published: March 2021

Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexual Self Advocacy

This video is the first in an empowerment series for self-advocates. This educational set of videos highlights the importance of providing information to people with developmental disabilities and …

Published: 3/4/2024

"Welcome to NCEO" Video

This short video provides an overview of the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO).

Published: July 2021

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Communication at Home

This video describes ways that parents with students with disabilities can help support their child’s communication development at home, and provides sources for more information.

Published: November 2020

State of the Science Conference 2022

The "2022 State of the Science Conference on Community Living: Engaging persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities from underserved racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups in …

Published: September 2022

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Routines at Home

This video helps support parents of students with disabilities in establishing routines at home, in order to promote better behaviors and communications. It also provides other sources for more …

Published: November 2020

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Math While at Home

This video describes ways parents of students with disabilities can help their child with the foundations of math while at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on foundations of …

Published: March 2021

In Our Own Words: Improving Care for People with Disabilities - Part One "Communication"

"In Our Own Words: Improving Care for People with Disabilities" is a two-part series (Communication; Understanding) produced by Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid's Minnesota Disability Law Center. It is a …

Published: 2023

MTI Success Stories: Ending Center-Based Work at Rise, Inc.

Rise, Inc. is a Minnesota-based nonprofit agency that provides employment services in support of people with disabilities. In 2021, Rise decided to end piece-rate, center-based employment in favor …

Published: 2024

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with the Foundations of Communication at Home

This video provides parents and siblings of students with disabilities with tips on how they can support the development of communication skills of their child (or sibling) at home, and provides …

Published: November 2020

MTI Success Stories: PHASE-Industries

PHASE-Industries is a day- and employment-provider serving people with disabilities in rural Minnesota. In 2021, PHASE-Industries began the transition from a center-based, subminimum wage service …

Published: 2023

Parent Video Series: Supporting the Learning of Children with Significant Cognitive Disabilities at Home: Helping Your Child with Math While at Home

This video describes ways parents of students with significant cognitive disabilities can help expand their child’s math skills at home. The video discusses why it is important to focus on math at …

Published: March 2021

Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities: Sexual Feelings and Relationships: Sexuality and People with Developmental Disabilities

A narrator and self-advocates explain that everyone's sexuality is unique to them, and that is true whether they have disabilities or not. There are different types of sexual feelings, and while …

Published: 3/4/2024