Autism Community Training

FRIDAY & SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 10 + 11, 2010 – VANCOUVER

The Challenge of Adulthood for Teenagers and Adults with ASD
– Encouraging Resilience & Self- Reliance
Presented by:
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP
& Pamela Crooke, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

This will be a world premier of a new workshop by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke, focusing on what school teams and families need to know in order to prepare children with ASD for the challenges of adulthood. Michelle Garcia Winner is a San Jose, CA-based clinician and author who has received a US Congressional award and international recognition for her development of ‘Social Thinking’ concepts. Pamela Crooke is a senior clinician at Social Thinking and part of the social-cognitive team as well as the faculty member of San Jose State University. See the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders for published research on her treatment strategies for high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome.

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The Challenge of Adulthood for Teenagers and Adults with ASD
- Encouraging Resilience & Self Reliance

OCTOBER 2010

FRIDAY & SATURDAY
OCTOBER 22 + 23, 2010 – VICTORIA

Transforming Parent-Child Interaction with Positive Behaviour Support
Presented by:
Joseph Lucyshyn, Ph.D., Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia.

Positive Behaviour Support has become a foundational approach to improving the lives of families who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities. Dr. Joe Lucyshyn is a leading international researcher in the area of family centred positive behavioural support. He will provide a summary of a seven year study in which he and his research team worked with 10 families of children with developmental disabilities and severe problem behaviour and demonstrated success in developing constructive parent-child interaction in family routines.

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Transforming Parent-Child Interaction with Positive Behaviour Support

DECEMBER 2010

FRIDAY & SATURDAY
DECEMBER 3 + 4, 2010 – VANCOUVER

Transforming Parent-Child Interaction with Positive Behaviour Support
Presented by:
Joseph Lucyshyn, Ph.D., Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education, University of British Columbia.

Positive Behaviour Support has become a foundational approach to improving the lives of families who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and other developmental disabilities. Dr. Joe Lucyshyn is a leading international researcher in the area of family centred positive behavioural support. He will provide a summary of a seven year study in which he and his research team worked with 10 families of children with developmental disabilities and severe problem behaviour and demonstrated success in developing constructive parent-child interaction in family routines.

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Transforming Parent-Child Interaction with Positive Behaviour Support

FEBRUARY 2011

FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 – VICTORIA

Organizing Strategies to Prepare for Homework and the Real World
- An Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach
Presented by:
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA CCC-SLP, Co-Director, Teach SOCIAL, Silicon Valley, California.

The vast majority of students with social cognitive deficits have immense difficulty developing organizational skills to manage the increasingly complex expectation of life in upper elementary, middle, high school and into their adult years.  Organizational skills are a set of executive functioning skills that can be overwhelming tasks for even our most intellectually sharp students with social cognitive deficits. This workshop will explore two different types of organizational skills: static and dynamic. We will break apart the concept of dynamic organizational skills into 10 concrete steps, which are vital towards the completion of what is considered a “homework assignment.”  An educational strategy will be reviewed to accompany each step of the process.   

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Organizing Strategies to Prepare for Homework and the Real World
- An Interdisciplinary Treatment Approach

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