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KASEC March Newsletter ๐Ÿ’Œ

March Newsletter is out! Read it now!

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ํ•œ๋ฏธํŠน์ˆ˜๊ต์œก์„ผํ„ฐ 3์›” Newsletter ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ๐Ÿฝ 

๋ฐ”๋žŒ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ์†Œ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ฉ์ง€ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ๋“ฏ ๋Š๊ปด์ง€์‹œ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ด„์ด ์˜จ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๋‚ ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ์€ ๋ด„๋ณ•์ด ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋‹ฟ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ 3์›”์—๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—์„œ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ธ์‹์„ ๋†’์ด๋Š” ๊ฑธ์Œ์„ ์„ฑํผ ๋‚ด๋”›์–ด๋ณผ๊นŒ์š”?
(์ด ๋‰ด์Šค ๋ ˆํ„ฐ ํ•˜๋‹จ์— ํŒ ํ€ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค! ๋†“์น˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”!)

Spring is upon us! Flowers blooming, birds chirping–we hope this spring will bring a bright sunshine on everyone. Let us march through March and raise much needed awareness about developmental disabilities in our community this month. 
(There will be a pop quiz on the bottom of this newsletter !)

Developmental Disabilities

Awareness Month

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 6๋ฐฑ๋งŒ๋ช…์ด ๋„˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ํ•œ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ง€๋‚œ 10๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์•  ์œ ๋ณ‘๋ฅ ์€ 17.1% ์ฆ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(CDC). ๋งค๋…„ 3์›”์€ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ์‹์˜ ๋‹ฌ๋กœ์„œ, ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๊ฒฉ๋ ค์™€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ณ ์ž 1987๋…„ ๋ ˆ์ด๊ฑด ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ณต์‹ ์„ ํฌ๋กœ ์ง€์ •๋˜์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œ๋ฏธํŠน์ˆ˜๊ต์œก์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‚ ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ์ธ์‹ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฒˆ 3์›”, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์— ํ‰๋“ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐํšŒ, ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋ฅธ ์ธ์‹์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์— ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ฒ ์–ด์š”?
Developmental disabilities include, but not limited to..
  • ADHD
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Cerebral Palsy
  • Down Syndrome
  • Intellectual Disability (ID)
  • Language/Speech disorders
  • Learning disorders
  • Vision/hearing impairment
Over 6 million people in the United States have one or more developmental disabilities, and the prevalence rate of DDs increased 17.1% since a decade ago (CDC). Officially proclaimed by President Reagan in 1987, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month has been celebrated in March to provide encouragement and opportunities.

KASEC is celebrating individuals with developmental disabilities everyday. This March, we invite you to join the march to bring equity, opportunity, and awareness to our community!
Movies/series about developmental disability
Rain man (R)
The Imitation Game (PG13)
The Story of Luke (NR)
Temple Grandin (NR)
Forrest Gump (PG13)
I am Sam (PG13)
Rainbow Time (NR)
The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG13)
Blind Side (PG13)
Atypical (PG13)
Documentary
Wizard Mode (TV-14) 
Swim Team (NR)
365 Friends Invitations

365 Friend Pledge๋Š” ํ•˜๋ฃจ $1์˜ ๊ธˆ์•ก์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ์—๊ฒŒ ํฐ ์„ ๋ฌผ์„ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์•ฝ์ • ํ›„์›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ํ›„์›์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ๋ช…์˜ ์•„์ด๊ฐ€ ๊ผญ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ํ›„์›์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ๋ช…์˜ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ ํ•™์ƒ์ด ์–‘์งˆ์˜ ๊ต์œก์„œ๋น„์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ํ•˜์ด์Šค์ฟจ ๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•™์ƒ Faith and Peter๋„ ์ด ์˜๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ์ผ์— ๋™์ฐธํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜ ๋“ค๋ ค๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


365 Friend Pledge is $1 a day pledge to make differences in the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities. Your pledge can help a child get a developmental screening when it is the most crucial time. Your pledge can support a student with developmental disabilities to receive quality services.

Faith and Peter, two of our high school volunteers also joined the meaningful cause and they are calling you to be a part of it!
Sign up for pledge NOW!

KASEC’s First Book Concert
 
์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์ฒซ ๋ถ์ฝ˜์„œํŠธ๋ฅผ ๋ฉ‹์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ณค์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ์•ผ๋ง๋กœ ์ „์„ธ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋ชจ์—ฌ์ฃผ์‹  170๋ช…์˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ์ž๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
ADHD์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด์™€ Dr. Susan Chung์˜ ์ง„์†”ํ•œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฐ๋™์ด ํ•จ๊ป˜ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ด ์ด๋ฒคํŠธ๋ฅผ ํ˜น์‹œ ๋†“์น˜์…จ๋‚˜์š”? ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์„ผํ„ฐ์˜ ์œ ํˆฌ๋ธŒ ์ฑ„๋„์— ์˜์ƒ์„ ์—…๋กœ๋“œํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„๋ž˜ ๋งํฌ๋ฅผ ํด๋ฆญํ•˜์„ธ์š”!


We had a successful first Book Concert!
Thank you for over 170 people joining in from all over the world! (literally!)
In case you missed this informative session about ADHD with Dr. Susan Chung, the comprehensive talk is available on our YouTube. Click the link below!
Click to watch the Book Concert
Upcoming Parent Survey

ํ•œ๋ฏธํŠน์ˆ˜๊ต์œก์„ผํ„ฐ๋Š” ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ์ดํ›„ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์•  ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ํ•„์š”๋ฅผ ์ •ํ™•ํžˆ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์ƒ์ด ๋ฉˆ์ถ˜๋“ฏ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์˜จ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์–ด๋Š๋ง 1๋…„์ด ๋œ ์ง€๊ธˆ, ์ €ํฌ ์„ผํ„ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ ์ž ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 3์›” ์ค‘์ˆœ์— ์„ค๋ฌธ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง„ํ–‰ํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋‹ˆ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ์„ ๊ผญ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.   

KASEC has been on our feet to accurately identify, address, and meet the needs of developmental disabilities community since the pandemic broke out. It has been nearly an year since the world shut down and we would like to know what our community needs at this point. Please stay tuned to your email for the survey in mid-March!
  1. UCLA-์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—ฐํ•ฉ ์›๊ฒฉ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค
    UCLA Annual Autism Conference: Mapping Your Future
    • UCLA์˜ ์žํ์ฆ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์—์„œ ์ตœ์ดˆ๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์„ธ์…˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋“ฑ๋ก์€ ๋ฌด๋ฃŒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์žํ์ŠคํŽ™ํŠธ๋Ÿผ ์žฅ์• ์ธ์˜ ์ž๊ธฐ๊ฒฐ์ •๊ณผ COVID ๋Œ€์ฒ˜๊ธฐ์ˆ  ๋ฐ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ „๋žต ๋“ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋ฐฐ์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ํ•œ๋ฏธํŠน์ˆ˜๊ต์œก์„ผํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜์—ฌ ์ผ€๋นˆ ๋งˆ ์„ ์ƒ๋‹˜์ด ์›๊ฒฉํ•™์Šต์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ํŒ์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆ„์–ด์ฃผ์‹ค ์˜ˆ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 
    • For the first time, UCLA is offering a segment of Autism Conference in Korean. Register for free and learn about self-determination and COVID coping skills and successes for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Representing KASEC, Coach Kevin will share virtual learning tips as well Click here for more information
  2. ์›๊ฒฉ์ˆ˜์—…๊ณผ ๋ณดํ˜ธ์žฅ๋น„ ์ฐฉ์šฉ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๊ต์œก 
    How can family help with virtual Learning and wearing PPE? 
    • ๋žœํ„ฐ๋งจ Regional Center์—์„œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๊ต์œก์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ€์ •์—์„œ ์˜จ๋ผ์ธํ•™์Šต๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œ์ผœ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™ธ์ถœ์‹œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์“ฐ๋Š” ๋ฒ•์„ ์ž๋…€๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น  ๊ฒƒ์ธ์ง€ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋‹ค๋ฃน๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
    • Lanterman Regional Center is offering a virtual parent education on how family members can enhance virtual learning experience and how to teach children wear their masks outside. Click here for more information 
  3. [์›จ๋น„๋‚˜] ํ•™๊ต์˜ ๋น„๋Œ€๋ฉด๊ต์œก์ด ์žฅ์• ์•„๋™์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฏธ์น˜๋Š” ์˜ํ–ฅ 
    [Webinar] Impact of school closures on children with disabilities
    • ํ•™๊ต๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์„ ๋‹ซ์Œ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์žฅ์• ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์ณค๋Š”์ง€๋ฅผ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ , ์˜จ๋ผ์ธํ•™์Šต๊ณผ ๋ฐฑ์‹ ์ ‘์ข… ๋ฐ ํ•™๊ต ์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋“ฑ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ตœ์‹  ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค(์˜์–ด๋กœ ์ง„ํ–‰๋จ).
    • Explore different impacts of school closures on children with disabilities and receive up-to-date resources in distance learning, vaccination, and school services (offered in English). Click here for more information 
  4. ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์„์œ„ํ•œ ์žฅํ•™๊ธˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ 
    Scholarship opportunities for High School Students
    • ์บ˜๋ฆฌํฌ๋‹ˆ์•„์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์„์œ„ํ•œ ์ตœ์‹  ์žฅํ•™๊ธˆ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”!
    • Check out updated scholarship opportunities for high school students living in California! Click here for more information
Pop Quiz!
3์›” ๋‰ด์Šค๋ ˆํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ผผ๊ผผํžˆ ์ฝ์œผ์‹  ๋ถ„์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ํ’€ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ€ด์ฆˆ!  
์•„๋ž˜ ๋‘ ํ€ด์ฆˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋‹ต์„ 3์›” 10์ผ๊นŒ์ง€ outreach@kasecca.org ๋ณด๋‚ด์ฃผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์ถ”์ฒจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐํ”„ํŠธ์นด๋“œ๋ฅผ ์„ ๋ฌผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 
  1. ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ์‹์˜ ๋‹ฌ์€ ๋ช‡ ์›”์ด๊ณ  ์ด ๋‹ฌ์„ ์„ ํฌํ•œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์ž…๋‹ˆ๊นŒ?
  2. ํ•˜๋ฃจ $1๋กœ ๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ์„ ํ›„์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” KASEC์˜ ํ›„์›์•ฝ์ •์˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์€ ๋ฌด์—‡์ผ๊นŒ์š”?
* 2 ์›” ํŒ ํ€ด์ฆˆ์˜ ์šฐ์Šน์ž๋Š” Jungmin Ban ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ถ•ํ•˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค!

Join and support our visions of creating an inclusive society for individuals with developmental disabilities. Your contribution matters. 

๋ฐœ๋‹ฌ์žฅ์• ์ธ์ด ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์‚ด์•„๊ฐˆ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ์ €ํฌ์˜ ๋น„์ „์— ๋™์ฐธํ•ด ์ฃผ์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค. ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„์˜ ์†๊ธธ์ด ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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