The Mid-Year Contract Progress Report is due by January 31, 2025. If you have any questions, please reach out to your START RCN Representative or Jana Benjamin.

Peer to Peer Program Data is due by March 7, 2025. Please contact Stephanie Pulido if you have any questions about this form or about collecting your Peer to Peer data.

We are excited to share that registration is open for the 24th Annual START Conference: Empowering Students through Communication, taking place on April 28, 2025, at the Lansing Center in Lansing, Michigan.

We are excited to feature Keynote Sessions from Caroline Gaddy, MFA, MA, CCC-SLP and Ashley Larisey, MS, CCC-SLP/L and afternoon breakout sessions! We hope you will join us.

Registration Information:

The application for the EPLI FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is open!

The FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp will take place on March 12 and 13, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Lansing Community College West Campus (LCC West).

The FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is intended to support current EPLI Trainers of START content, with increasing confidence and competence, in training the START FAPE in the LRE content in their local contexts. This Bootcamp will be a very rigorous, yet engaging session; prerequisite work is required to prepare participants for the day. In addition to strengthening the content knowledge of trainers, strategies for the instructional delivery of the FAPE in the LRE training module will be shared and practiced.

The EPLI FAPE in the LRE Bootcamp is open to Current EPLI Trainers of START Content that have attended FAPE in the LRE in the past year.

Thank you for submitting your 2023-2024 EPLI Individual Trainer Reports! The EPLI Trainer Report Data and Summaries are now available. The spreadsheets and summaries are located in your START RCN Google Drive Folder under "23-24 Data Visualization from START."

Please contact Stephanie Pulido if you have any questions. 

The Elementary and Secondary Peer to Peer Program Playbooks are available to the RCN at no cost. START will collect orders for both Playbooks through May 2025. Orders will ship out on a monthly basis

Order Elementary and Secondary Peer to Peer Program Playbooks here. Please contact Avis Merry if you have any questions.

→ We invite the RCN to distribute the START Training and Training Series Flyers to staff, community members, and families across your region. 

START also developed Training and Training Series Slides for use in presentations.

 The Statewide Autism Resources and Training (START) Project is funded by the Michigan Department of Education, Office of Special Education to provide training and technical assistance to educators in Michigan that serve students with ASD.

START Project | autismed@gvsu.edu | (616) 331-6480