Navigating the Neurotypical World: Teaching Social & Emotional Skills to Students with ASD – Unlimited Access DVD

Description

This pre-recorded webinar on CD will be shipped to you for unlimited viewing.

Grades K-12
500,000 American children with some form of autism will become adults over the next decade.’ Students with autism spectrum disorders continue to demonstrate amazing capabilities, talents and academic strengths. ’However, many parents fear their childrens post-educational future will consist of sitting on the couch watching television.
Increasingly, students on the autism spectrum are participating in general education classrooms and attending colleges and universities. To ensure these students reach their full potential, it is essential that educators learn how to address their difficulties with socialization and with emotional regulation. A variety of evidence-based teaching approaches and promising practices are available to provide students with ASD opportunities to learn the social skills and emotional-regulation strategies they need to be able to thrive in home, school and community settings.
This engaging 90-minute webinar will provide participants with a better understanding of the social and emotional functioning characteristics of students with ASD and procedures for using a variety of support strategies for children and teens with ASD as they learn essential social and emotional-regulation skills. User-friendly, step-by-step procedures will be demonstrated to allow attendees to immediately implement interventions that will make a significant impact on the lives of those they support.
This webinar will provide participants with:

An overview of the social and emotional functioning characteristics of individuals with ASD
Key insights for using social narratives to support social development
Interventions for harnessing video modeling to support social development
Methodology for engaging peer-mediated interventions to support social development
Procedures for teaching students with ASD how to regulate their emotions

Learning Objectives:

Understand the complexities of the social and emotional functioning of individuals with ASD
Develop and implement social narrative interventions including Social Stories, social scripts, Power Cards, cartooning and social autopsies
Design interventions that utilize video modeling, video self-modeling and video prompting
Implement peer-mediated interventions to teach social skills in natural settings
Create environments and use strategies that enhance the emotional-regulation skills of individuals with ASD

Who Should Attend:

Teachers
Special Education Personnel
School Counselors
School Social Workers (all levels)
Behaviorists
Psychologists
Therapists
School Nurses
Community & Faith-Based Youth Workers
After-School Program Coordinators
Principals

You Will Also Receive:
To augment the PowerPoint presentation and activities, each participant will receive a (PDF) resource packet of the presentation with ideas, reproducible forms, activities and other suggested resources.
About the Presenter:

Dr. Debra Leach is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Winthrop University and is a board-certified behavior analyst who specializes in working with children with autism spectrum disorders, their families and those who serve them. She has served as a special education teacher and general education teacher at the elementary level working in inclusive settings and was the inclusion specialist at the K-8 laboratory school at Florida Atlantic University.
Debra has served as the Associate Director for the Florida Atlantic University Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. In her current position at Winthrop University, Debra teachers a variety of courses in special education. She also has received grants to provide statewide training to teachers promoting the successful inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorders.
In addition to publishing several journal articles, Debra is the author of two books, Bringing ABA into Your Inclusive Classroom: A Guide to Improving Outcomes for Students with ASD and Bringing ABA into Home, School, and Play for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
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