Author Archives: Jenise

When Kendra Majette is asked to summarize success as a Direct Support Professional (DSP), she says one word: “Trust.”  Kendra, 32, has been a DSP at Ability Beyond Disability in Danbury, CT for over four years and is the subject of “The DSP Chronicles” for March-April from the College of Direct Support/DirectCourse (CDS).

The Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development is an online educational and performance management tool to help administrators train and communicate with their employees. This issue of the Admin Corner focuses on Classes and Events, a tool designed to track classroom training attendance and completions. Classes and Events helps you schedule and maximize every facet of [...]

A circulating draft of The Measure of a Society: Protection of Vulnerable Persons in Residential Facilities Against Abuse and Neglect, otherwise known as The Sundram Report (after principal author Clarence Sundram), has revealed conflicting regulations and unregulated staff expose nearly 300,000 “vulnerable people to needless risk of harm and complicate the challenge of teaching and [...]

The DirectCourse/College of Direct Support online curriculum is playing an important role in a unique three-year project in New Hampshire that could have long-term and transformational impacts on the direct care workforce in the state. The project is known as “DirectConnect.”

The DirectCourse/College of Direct Support (CDS) team at the University of Minnesota’s Research and Training Center (RTC) does more than just develop and author the CDS curriculum. They strive to understand its outcomes based on evidence gathered from its use in the field and report their findings in our Evaluation Briefs. Like the authoring process [...]

An expert panel appointed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is well into the process of making proposed changes to the definition of autism and most experts familiar with the work predict that the new definition will narrow the criteria for autism, thus drastically reducing the number of children who are diagnosed.

Featuring Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development’s Survey Tool The Elsevier Performance Manager: Core Development is an online educational and performance management tool that administrators use to train and communicate with their employees. A different Elsevier Performance Management Tool will be highlighted in the Admin Corner bi-monthly. This month we will focus on the Survey Tool.

Newly released DirectCourse courses (CDS and CES) do not automatically populate assignable module listings. Administrators must create new modules to make them available to their learners. If you would like to learn more about creating and assigning modules please visit the help documents on your administration page and choose the Assign E-Learning option or visit [...]