Helping Students With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (Grades K-12) Presented by Quinn Novy ASD Expert, Consultant and Outstanding Educator

Specifically Designed for Special Education Staff, General Education Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Counselors, Speech Pathologists, and Occupational Therapists Who Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Practical Ideas and Strategies

With the increasing identification of students on the autism spectrum, we as educators find ourselves searching for the most effective ways to help our students find greater success in school. How can we most effectively support the unique needs of our students with ASD? Quinn Novy will lead an engaging, informative seminar that tackles the pressing questions and challenges we face in our schools every day on this topic. Quinn will provide practical strategies to help you foster more positive behavior and enhance learning for your students. You'll leave with practical tools for increasing students' focus and reducing interruptions so everyone in the school setting will experience a benefit. Each participant will also receive a comprehensive digital handbook filled with tools and resources to help you make a lasting impact on the educational experiences of your students with high-functioning autism.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Expand Your Toolkit of Research-Based Strategies for Helping Students With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders
   Practical strategies to help students with ASD be more successful in both special and general education settings … Practical, evidence-based techniques ready to use tomorrow!
2. Increase Functional Participation and School Success for Your Students With ASD
   Brain-based strategies that are proven to help students improve their social, academic, and functional skills and increase their overall success at school
3. Successfully Address ASD-Related Challenging Behaviors
   Learn what the latest research has to say about improving the behavior of your students with high-functioning autism disorders … Help students better manage the cycle of repetitive, inflexible and challenging behaviors at school
4. Implement Research-Based Strategies in Your Inclusive Environment
   Learn research-based ways to approach instruction and tiered intervention to meet the needs of students with ASD and help them become more independent, successful learners in the school environment
5. Improve Your Students' Organization and Planning Skills
   Incorporate proven ways to help students with ASD better organize themselves and their materials to develop independent learning and life skills … Improve structure, predictability and routines that support students with ASD
6. Intervene With Meltdowns and Tantrums
   Is it a meltdown or a tantrum? Better understand the differences between them and learn how to intervene more successfully for each … Ensure successful experiences with an effective plan in these highly stressful moments
7. Practical Ideas to Create a More Successful Learning Environment for Students With ASD
   Choose from a wealth of ideas for organizing, scheduling and setting up your classroom to greatly improve the success of your students with autism spectrum disorders … Strengthen your teaching and your students' learning with student-centered strategies you can implement immediately
8. Modify and Adapt Your Instruction to More Successfully Reach Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
   Gain teacher-proven methods to modify and adapt your lessons and instructional materials in ways that will truly make a difference … Leave with ideas to set up your lessons to enhance learning and retention
9. Support Students With High-Functioning Autism With Social Communication
   Practical strategies that enhance social and communication skills to help your students build genuine relationships with peers … Tools you and your students will use, starting now!
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Filled With Practical Ideas, Tools and Valuable Information You Can Use Immediately
    Each participant will receive an extensive digital 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

Here's what you'll learn:

• Brain-based strategies for creating a successful environment for your students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders
• Practical 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 functional skills, and social skills
• Ideas and strategies that enhance ASD students' social and communication skills
• Intervention techniques for providing the greatest possible potential for students on the autism spectrum
• Practical and effective strategies that promote self-regulation and increases the quality of peer relationships
• Proactive planning that addresses escalating behavior and prevents meltdowns
• Proven ways to modify and adapt your lessons and instructional materials to meet the highly diverse needs of students with autism spectrum disorders
• 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 in the school environment

AOTA Learning Outcomes

At the end of the seminar you will be able to:

• Identify interventions to improve students' motor planning, hand strength, motor separation of the hand, and in-hand manipulative skills affecting functional outcomes
• Select specific strategies to help students increase classroom participation, independence, attention and focus while developing an inviting space that meets their sensory needs and improves work behaviors
• Name uses of technology and OT Apps that can address fine motor skills and visual motor/visual perceptual skills pertaining to writing legibly
• Identify proven interventions to boost motor development and use of classroom tools for improved functional outcomes

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

With an increasing number of students identified with high-functioning autism, we know the importance of having supportive strategies and resources to help them thrive in our schools. Meeting the diverse needs of our students while upholding high learning standards presents unique challenges for us as teachers. As a teacher myself, I understand firsthand how often we find ourselves in reactive situations, which can make it difficult to shift to more proactive support. This seminar is designed to better equip resource room teachers like us with the tools and strategies we seek, so that we can create the best possible learning environment.

This seminar will deepen your understanding of your students with sensory needs, and environmental influences that impact their learning, and will expand your toolkit of practical strategies leading you to more positive outcomes for your students with high-functioning autism. Together, we'll explore ways to create learning spaces that respect individual needs and achieve more personalized solutions for the challenges we face.

I am excited to share my passion and effective, ready-to-use strategies with you! This will be a day full of learning, discovery, and fresh perspectives as we dive deep into current, researched-based techniques that improve academic, behavioral, social, and functional growth for students on the autism spectrum. By the end of our time together, my goal is for you to feel renewed and ready to implement these approaches confidently and immediately!

Sincerely,
Quinn Novy

P.S. The focus of this seminar will be on practical strategies you can use immediately to help students with autism spectrum disorders experience greater success at school!

Who Should Attend

Special Education Staff, General Education Teachers, Paraprofessionals, Counselors, Speech Pathologists, and Occupational Therapists Who Support Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

• Proactive planning templates to help you better meet needs of students with high-functioning autism
• Brain-based curriculum resources that help high-functioning autistic students find greater success
• Key elements of effective visuals, schedules, and school expectations
• Practical ideas to help your autistic students increase the quality of their peer relationships

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in helping students with high-functioning ASDs.

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

ASHA - CEUs


You will be required to fully attend the program, actively participate, and complete a self-assessment and program evaluation.

ASHA-Required Disclosure Statement for Quinn Novy:
Presenter for the Institute for Educational Development and receives honorarium compensation.
No relevant nonfinancial relationships exist..

AOTA – CEUs
BER is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development (Approved Provider 6353). Full attendance at this program qualifies for .5 AOTA CEUs/5 Contact Hours per day of attendance. Educational level: Introductory; Category: Occupational Therapy Service Delivery. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
You will be required to fully attend the program and complete a program evaluation and a learning outcomes assessment at the end.

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AOTA-Required Financial Non-Financial Disclosure Statement for Quinn Novy
Presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research and receives honorarium compensation.
Presenter may also have a financial or non-financial interest in products or services mentioned at this seminar.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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