Digital Seminar

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

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Effective assessment tool selection for social skills and language deficits
Make meaningful connections through problem-solving, reasoning, perspective taking, social behavior, and conversation fluency
Strategies to teach academic language for inclusion success
Data collection methods for social skills, social behavior, and conversation fluency

Children with autism often need support in reaching advanced language levels and expectations found in the classroom, community, and in social relationships. This need is a requirement to reaching increased levels of independence. This seminar focuses on going beyond early language programming and moving toward advancing language skills and social connections for learners with autism.

Join autism expert, Landria Seals Green, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA, and learn evidence-based strategies for accurate assessment tool selection, developing effective learning programs, and improving data collection methods for social skills, social behavior and conversation fluency. Through the use of case studies and hands on activities, you will walk away with the skills necessary to:

Select assessment tools that accurately evaluate social skills and language deficits
Advance vocabulary, oral narrative skills and conversation fluency
Advance language skills of sentence complexity, reasoning and social problem-solving
Incorporate methods of applied behavior analysis across the therapy team to support learner language advancement
Create activities and tools that engage student learning and support self-management and regulation needed for inclusion

When therapy teams move toward specifically teaching, shaping, and supporting the generalization of social behavior, conversation fluency, verbal fluency and reasoning—the learner with autism can reach new heights in the academic setting, in relationships and vocationally!

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Product Details

Average Rating:: 5
Faculty:: Landria Seals Green, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA
Duration:: 6 Hours 11 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Apr 20, 2017
Product Code:: POS063305
Media Type:: Digital Seminar
Access:: Never expires.

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Continuing Professional Development Certificates - PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This online program is worth 6.25 hours CPD.

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	Manual (4.67 MB)	61 Pages	Available after Purchase

Faculty

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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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Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

Objectives

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

Target Audience

Counselors, Teachers/Educators, Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants, Psychologists, Social Workers, Speech-Language Pathologists, and other Mental Health Professionals.

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Comments

Jenine P - WILLIAMSTOWN, New Jersey

"Landria was a good presenter. I liked how she used "comedy" to engage the audience and keep us motivated and interested in the content. She is knowledgeable and had me look at things from a different perspective. Thank you."

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