Tucson Alliance for Autism

Presents

Social Thinking® Toolbox

Practical Strategies to Target Social Learning Challenges in Individuals with Autism, Aspergers and ADHD Across the Home and School Day

Designed for parents and professionals to understand the inner minds of persons with social-learning weaknesses, this workshop presents not only functional treatment strategies for use both at school and at home, but also models for understanding why these students react and respond the way they do.

The core concepts of teaching Social Thinking® and related social skills will be introduced and participants will explore teaching social concepts in a manner that is sensitive to the context/situation while considering what other people are thinking and how one is expected to respond. We will demystify why we need to teach more than "social skills" to our students with near normal to way above normal verbal intelligence. We will explore the ILAUGH model of Social Thinking that demonstrates how social-processing difficulties limit not only expected social skills, but also the ability to work as part of a group and to focus on specific academic tasks, such as written expression, reading comprehension and organizational skills. Strategies for classroom management, such as teaching students about blurting and ways to cope with the "boring moment," are among the popular lessons. New practical strategies related to these core issues, including Superflex®, friendship peer-a-mid and spirals of social success/failure will also be a part of the talk.

Saturday October 16, 2010

9:00 am – 3:00 pm

8:30 Check-in and Continental Breakfast

$100.00 Professionals (Speech Pathologists, Teachers, Doctors & those needing ASHA CHM and State CEU’s)

$50 Parents, Grandparents & Other’s that are interested

Continental Breakfast & Lunch Included

Location: The Manning House, 450 W. Paseo Redondo, Tucson, AZ