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Autism Modules on Evidence Based Practices: Part 1
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Author: Melissa Dubie
Item Number: IRCTR0001
Item Cost 50.00
Do you need 16 Professional Growth Points for your license renewal?
Do you like to learn at your own pace at a computer anywhere (e.g., home, coffee shop, or work)?
Do you want to learn about autism spectrum disorders using 24 evidence based practices?
Then this is the online workshop for you. It is geared towards general and special education teachers, administrators, autism consultants, speech therapists, psychologists, counselors and any other professionals working with individuals with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder.
Topics Include:
Session 1: Understanding PDD/ASD (history, diagnosis, prevalence, etiology).
Session 2: Characteristics of ASD including the core triad.
Session 3: Assessment of ASD.
Session 4: Nine guiding principles (e.g., family centered practices, collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, using evidence based practices, and data collection).
Session 5: Factors affecting learning and development.
Session 6: Instructional strategies and learning environments including core instructional strategies (e.g., prompting, time delay, chaining, shaping, reinforcement, extinction, and visual supports) and learning environments (e.g., visual schedules and work systems).
Session 7: Foundations of Communication and Social Interactions (e.g., social skills, functional communication training, imitating and modeling, naturalistic strategies, peer mediation instruction, picture exchange communication, pivotal response training, social narratives, video modeling, and voice output communication aids).
Session 8: Promoting Positive Behavior and Reducing Interfering Behaviors (e.g., conducting functional behavior assessments, development comprehensive behavior interventions, encouraging positive behavior and reducing interfering behaviors with a tiered intervention approach, and obtaining a medical evaluation).
