Increase Your Success in Working with Students with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

Presented by Kathy Morris
National Consultant, ASD Expert and Award-Winning Educator

Specifically Designed for Special Education Staff, General Education Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Counselors, and Speech Pathologists who Work with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Dozens of highly practical strategies for working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) including Asperger’s Syndrome, high-functioning autism and other social and cognitive differences
Classroom-tested ways to establish structure, predictability and routines in your classroom to better support students with ASD in order to gain and maintain their focus
How to address challenging behaviors using highly effective prevention, intervention and post-vention strategies
Demonstrations, video examples, modeling, specific “how-to’s,” and an extensive resource handbook filled with strategies and ideas you can use in your classroom immediately with your students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders

Practical Ideas and Strategies

As more and more students are being identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder, educators are looking for the best practices to help these students experience success in the school setting. How can we, as teachers, meet their unique needs in our classrooms and still meet the needs of the rest of the class? Kathy Morris will engage you in this NEW, highly interactive and fast-paced seminar addressing the many questions and concerns you may have as a special education teacher, classroom teacher, speech pathologist, or paraprofessional who works with these students.

Using humor, demonstrations, role-playing, video clips, and real-life experiences, Kathy will share successful techniques and strategies for increasing learning and positive behavior. She will give you ready-to-implement ways to develop predictable schedules and organize your classroom both physically and visually to maximize learning and minimize distractions. You will leave this seminar with dozens of ideas and strategies to help you make a real difference in your students’ learning. Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook including the techniques and strategies discussed in the seminar and much, much more!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Build and Expand Your Toolkit of Strategies for Working with Students with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
Practical strategies to help these students be more successful in both special and general education classrooms … Practical, evidence-based techniques ready to use tomorrow
Implement the Critical Components for Success with Students with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
Numerous, student-proven strategies that are considered the most critical to help students increase their school skills – socially and academically
Address the Challenging Behaviors of Students on the Spectrum
Learn to identify the sources of unacceptable behavior along with strategies to help reduce those behaviors … Use techniques such as Power Cards, Cue Cards, Social Autopsies, Social Stories, Body Mapping, and many more
Implement Powerful Structured Teaching Strategies
Learn how to organize and structure your instruction to meet the needs of students with ASD and help them become more successful learners in your classroom
Enhance Your Students’ Organizational Skills
Incorporate proven ways to help students with Autism Spectrum Disorder organize themselves and their materials in order to develop independent learning and life skills … Hands-on examples and strategies
Intervening with Meltdowns and Tantrums
Identify the differences between a meltdown and a tantrum and how to intervene more successfully for each … Learn prevention strategies for both
Practical Ideas to Create a Successful Environment
Choose from a wealth of ideas for organizing, scheduling and setting up the classroom to greatly improve the success of your students with Autism Spectrum Disorders … Strengthen your teaching and your students’ learning with student-proven strategies you can implement immediately
Modify and Adapt Your Instruction to Reach Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Explore teacher-proven methods to modify and adapt your lessons and instructional materials that will truly make a difference for these students … Ways to set up your lessons to enhance the learning and retention of skills and concepts
Ideas for Including Students with Moderate to More Severe Autism in the General Education Classroom
Examples and hands-on materials that are real-life solutions to help students be more successful and included classmates
Receive a Detailed Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook filled with strategies and techniques discussed in the seminar and ready to implement in your classroom immediately

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Student-proven strategies for working with your students with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
Outstanding strategies that will make a positive difference in the behavior and academic performance of students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Research-based techniques to increase student learning and acceptable student behavior
Prevention, intervention, and post-vention techniques for providing greatest possible potential for students on the Autism spectrum
Strategies that will also help your students with co-morbid disabilities of ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Anxiety Disorders, Fragile X Syndrome, and Non-Verbal Learning Disorders often associated with ASD
Proactive, practical and effective strategies that promote self-regulation and appropriate social skills
Instructional consequences and post-vention techniques that address escalating behavior and meltdowns
Proven ways to modify and adapt your lessons and instructional materials to meet the highly diverse needs of students with Asperger’s Syndrome and high-functioning autism
Research-based strategies translated into practical interventions you can use in your classroom
Tips from an experienced educator on how to best work with students with ASD
Ideas for turning obsessive subjects into strengths to facilitate learning
How to recognize the signs of escalating behavior and defuse symptoms of anxiety
Provide strategies that infuse structure, predictability and routine in the therapy room or classroom
Video modeling, Power Cards, Social Stories, Keychain Rules, Social Autopsies, Breathe Cards, Emotion Cards, and numerous other visual strategies
Establishing predictable routines to strengthen independent learning
How to identify possible misinterpretations of behaviors
Demonstrations, examples, videos, and specific how-to’s, including an extensive resource handbook

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

“If I could, I would give you wings” is a meaningful phrase from a lullaby that I sang to my sons when they were young. I did not realize at the time that two of my sons would have disabilities (autism and cerebral palsy). Even though I was a special education teacher at the time, it is a different ballgame when they are your own children. It has been my life work to help educators and others understand how to successfully utilize strategies and techniques to reach our students with learning disabilities, and most specifically, Autism Spectrum Disorders. I will share dozens of these ideas and strategies with you at this fast-paced, strategy-packed seminar.

During the day I will give you practical ideas for working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, including Asperger’s Syndrome, and other social-cognitive processing differences. Modifications and accommodations for academic programming, as well as cues for appropriate behaviors will be shared through video clips, role playing and hands-on examples. All these strategies will be ready for you to use the very next day with your students.

The strategies and techniques are ones that I have used with students and have learned from various outstanding experts across the nation. The strategies have worked for the students with whom I’ve worked and I want to share them with you so your students can be more successful in your classroom. Please join me for an exciting day filled with ideas you can use immediately.

Sincerely,
Kathy K. Morris

P.S. The focus of this seminar will be on practical strategies you can use to increase your effectiveness in the classroom.

Who Should Attend

Special Education Staff, General Education Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Counselors, and Speech Pathologists who work with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

A checklist for successful intervention strategies
Proven ways to modify and adapt your lessons
Key elements of effective visual and spatial organization
Numerous ideas to help your students become more socially accepted in the classroom

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in increasing their success in working with students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Consultation Available
Kathy Morris will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

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