DVD recording (1 hours, 28 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions. This workshop teaches participants how to create successful behavioral interventions for children with autism. You will learn how to help children correct their behaviors through video-modeling, how to monitor their behaviors with self-management techniques, how to learn the rules of the world through social stories and comic-strip conversations, and how to see their progress through videotaping. We discuss ways to engage and communicate with children with autism and how to help them gracefully transition from one activity, place or person to the next. In addition, you will learn to combine techniques from behavioral therapy and play therapy for the purpose of replacing a child’s repetitive behaviors with functional skills. OBJECTIVES Detail two videotaping methods that target behavioral issues in young or cognitively impaired children. Learn to use social stories and comic book conversations as a way to teach rules and lessons. Name 10 ways to engage and transition a child with autism. Describe how to put a self-management program into place for a child with high-functioning autism. ABOUT TERESA GARLAND Teresa Garland, MOT, OTR/L, is an OT specializing in sensory and modulation issues. She has worked in schools, sensory clinics and medical settings with children ages 3 – 17, treating children with sensory processing disorders, ADHD and autism. Ms. Garland works closely with psychologists, speech therapists, teachers and doctors to understand and treat underlying sensory, timing, and coordination/motor planning issues. She is trained/certified in the SIPT, Interactive Metronome®, Integrated Listening Systems (iLs), Therapeutic Listening, Wilbarger’s Sensory Defensiveness, and Food Chaining. She has written case studies for Interactive Metronome® and writes a blog called OT and Self-Regulation at http://otselfregulation.blogspot.com/.
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