Apply strategies to help clients overcome adversity and developed self-confidence, including finding an invaluable mentor.
Determine the skills necessary for employment that aligns with your client’s unique abilities and career interests.
Solve challenges related to forming and maintaining meaningful long-term relationships.
Outline
The Extraordinary Potential of Those on The Autism Spectrum
Help Clients with ASD Tap into Their Hidden Abilities
How Clients with ASD Can Live Full Lives with Meaningful Relationships and Careers
Target Audience
Educators
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
School Administrators
Speech-Language Pathologists
Teachers/School-Based Personnel
Copyright :04/22/2021
The Neuroscience of Safety: The Transformative Impact of the Polyvagal Theory on Supporting Children on the Autism Spectrum
Program Information
Objectives
Apply the lens of the Polyvagal theory in appreciating the adaptive nature of behaviors in children diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
Differentiate between viewing and manipulating surface behaviors and addressing the upstream causes of behaviors across diagnostic categories of the DSM.
Determine how the process of neuroception is a guiding principle for treatment planning and treatment techniques.
Outline
Understanding Behaviors as Adaptations of the Autonomic Nervous System: A Paradigm Shift
Problem with targeting surface behaviors; Know the problem in order to shift the strategies: Case study
The Neuroscience of Safety
How the PVT helps us “look inside” the nervous system
The guiding principle of neuroception and how it can help clinicians
Individual Differences and Tailoring our Support for Individuals with Autism and their Families
Looking under the skin to understand that autonomic state influences reactivity and sociality.
Identifying strategies to retune autonomic state and shift hypersensitivity to social receptivity.
Difference between passive and active pathway interventions
Safe and Sound Protocol - a passive pathway intervention that harnesses the neuroception of safety
Safety is Treatment and Treatment is Safety: Practical Tips
How the neuroscience of safety helps us plan treatment goals
Examples and principles of neural exercises and how they apply the ‘vagal brake’ to calm and promote resilience.
The Power of Play
Play to exercise the neural pathways of safety with activation in a safe way
Research documenting how acoustic cues of safety reduce hypersensitivities.
Target Audience
Addiction Professionals
Case Managers
Dieticians
Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nursing Home/Assisted Living Administrators
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Physical Therapists
Physical Therapist Assistants
Psychologists
School Administrators
Social Workers
Speech-Language Pathologists
Teachers/School-Based Personnel
Copyright :04/22/2021
Sensorimotor Interventions to Improve Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Functioning: Neurological Approaches for Children and Adolescents with Autism
Program Information
Objectives
Demonstrate the neurological connection to the various sensory strategies for treating children and adolescence diagnosed with autism.
Employ treatment techniques such as mindfulness, activation of the Vagus nerve, music and movement, and respiratory-based techniques to improve client level of functioning.
Integrate environmental modifications to support optimal function of children with autism.
Assess the cause and effect of intervention techniques as they relate to neurological function.
Outline
Variations in the Presentations of Autism
Impact on appropriate selection of intervention
Looking at the duality of function and dysfunction
Neurological connections to emotions and sensorimotor function
Tools for Assessing:
Areas of strength and areas revealing potential for growth
Environment and context to identify opportunities for adaptation and modification
Arousal levels assessment tool: Concrete method used for daily schedules and to organize daily interventions
Neurological Connection to Treatment Planning
Sensorimotor strategies to address the individual needs of children and families
Adapt and modify activities and the environment to support the child’s needs
New interventions for vestibular, interoception, proprioceptive, auditory, smell and vision work
The Self-Regulation & Mindfulness program
Addressing primitive reflexes
Target Audience
Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapists
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Physical Therapists
Physical Therapist Assistants
Psychologists
Social Workers
Speech-Language Pathologists
Teachers/School-Based Personnel
Copyright :04/22/2021
A Practitioner's Guide to Autism Assessment: A Strengths-Based Approach
Program Information
Objectives
Utilize appropriate screening tools when ASD is suspected.
Conduct a functional assessment of challenging behaviors associated with ASD, a co-occurring condition, or both.
Determine the information required to make an appropriate referral for evaluation or services when ASD is suspected.
Utilize specific interventions and modifications informed by screening and assessment results.
Outline
Assessment and Screening Through a Neurodiversity Lens
Profile and how brain works differently
Identifying strengths
Needed supports to promote independence & valued living
Collaborative assessment driven approach
Screenings that all providers can use
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Diagnosis isn’t the main issue
Current behavior is important to address
Once function of behavior is identified, what next?
How to encourage more helpful behaviors, regardless of diagnoses and environment
Cases examples using Motivational Assessment Scale
When Screening Shows ASD... Now What?
Types of referrals to make and why they are so important
Psychoeducation resources
Therapy
Understanding elements of a good provider with ASD expertise
How to Broach the Topic of ASD to Families: Role-Play