Autism in Children & Adolescents: Advancing Language for Conversation Fluency and Social Connections

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Landria Seals Green, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA Related seminars and products: 1

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Landria Seals Green, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA, is a licensed and certified speech-language pathologist and Board-Certified Behavior Analyst with almost 20 years of experience in clinical therapy and clinical leadership. She is the founder of Momentum Autism Therapy Services, a provider of home, community and school-based ABA and speech pathology services. Landria has also founded and directed other multidisciplinary therapy organizations and consults in organizational behavior management as well as leadership to schools and therapy businesses. She trains professionals in speech pathology, applied behavior analysis, special education and occupational therapy in program implementation for learners of various diagnoses and created training curricula and manuals for professionals. Landria is the developer of the SOAR Autism Curriculum and SOAR Solutions for Autism, ABA, and special education, which provides a comprehensive tool for targets in ABA Therapy programs. Providing consultation and training in Intensive Behavior Intervention (IAI) programs to public, private and charter schools, Landria is a sought-after expert in the field.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Landria Green has an employment relationship with TN Active Care. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Landria Green is a member of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association.

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Objectives

1. Utilize general education curriculum and common core standards to support assessment and goal/objective planning for learners with autism.
2. Characterize assessment and evaluation tools to examine verbal behavior and social language skills.
3. Connect and improve vocabulary and oral narrative skills to increase conversation fluency, reasoning and social connectedness.
4. Implement strategies for teaching advanced language skills of sentence complexity, conversation fluency and social problem-solving.
5. Create objective data collection procedures to better track, analyze, and understand learner achievements and language areas in need of support and direct instruction.
6. Incorporate methods of applied behavior analysis across the therapy team to support learner language advancement.

Outline

ASSESSMENT FOR LANGUAGE, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND CONVERSATION FLUENCY

• Beyond the traditional speech-language assessment
• Primary tool for conversation, organization, expressive language and reasoning skills
• General education standards and Common Core Standards
• Integrate results for a comprehensive treatment plan

DESIGNING GOALS FOR LANGUAGE, SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND CONVERSATION FLUENCY

• Measurable goals and objectives for:
• Behavior and social intervention
• Language and fluency of skills
• Treatment plans and IEPs to support collaborative responsibility
• Proactively plan to teach skills across all settings
• When to design and plan for generalization

STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE

• Align verbal behavior and traditional language therapy
• Declarative language skills and synonym usage for social and academic vocabulary
• Progress from single word utterances to multi-word word utterances
• Connect academic language learning and classroom participation
• Data collection strategies for expressive language intervention

STRATEGIES TO STRENGTHEN ORAL NARRATIVE SKILLS

• Improve narrative forms including story recall
• Incorporate opinions and perspectives into oral narratives
• Integrate body language and tone of voice in narrative presentation
• Add descriptive language to narrative skills
• Data collection in oral narrative skills improvement

STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT LANGUAGE AND REASONING

• Teach learners how to reason and make connections with vocabulary
• Connect receptive vocabulary and expressive language output
• Problem solving and reasoning skills for academic language

SOCIAL COGNITION STRATEGIES

• Conversation colors to support perspective taking
• Build “flexibility” in teaching sessions
• Problem-solving beyond finding one solution
• Perspective taking to support classroom behavior and relationships
• Problem solving and reasoning for social safety
• Data collection for social cognition

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR STRATEGIES

• Proactive strategies to support social behavior
• Social concept stories to explain “why” and “how”
• Incorporate social perspective taking into behavior contracts and token systems
• Data collection to provide reinforcement of improved social behavior

CONVERSATION FLUENCY STRATEGIES

• Connect expressive language to conversation fluency
• Verbal fluency under social timed pressure
• Conversation fluency to support generalization
• Coaching, shadowing, modeling in education and community environments
• Rhythm and music to support conversation fluency
• Data collection to track learner’s conversation fluency

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