Jay Berk – High-Functioning Autism

These case studies show specific interventions for both aggressive and non-aggressive situations.-Compliance behaviors

Jay Berk – High-Functioning Autism

• DSM-5® and ICD-10 updates
  • Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder
  • Impact on service delivery (school/community)
  • Link home, school, therapy and success
  • IEP/504/Do they have the right to receive school services?
  • Co-morbid disorders: Why it is important to know the difference
• Social Skills Interventions
  • Improve social skill deficits
  • “Kid Cop” Behaviors and reasons why kids get mad at each other
  • How to get peers and colleagues to recognize them positively
  • Activities for groups
  • Long-lasting early intervention programs can help.-Success is a term
• Communication Interventions
  • Multiple settings can use conflict resolutions that work.
  • Peers and family members can help each other.
  • Verbal interventions can overload processing
  • Pragmatic language and abstract issues
• Sensory Interventions
  • Self-stimulation (appropriate & inappropriate)
  • Sensory strategies to prevent
  • Coping/calming techniques to reduce meltdowns
  • Sensory diet
• Anxiety Interventions
  • Anxiety-Reduce activities
  • How anxiety can impact rigidity
  • Help them “self-regulate”
  • Transitions that work
• Depression Interventions
  • Impact on flexibility, change and adaptability
  • Therapy that works for HFA patients
  • Adolescence is the time of emerging
  • Solitude vs. loneliness
• ADHD Interventions
  • ADHD vs. Hyper-Focus
  • Commonly prescribed medication and side effects
  • What are the triggers for rage?
  • Reduce disruptive and aggressive behavior
  • Making mistakes can lead to defiant behaviours
  • Be able to overcome refusals to comply even with the simplest requests
• Obsessive-Interventions for Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
  • How to help them if they get stuck in high-interest areas
  • Specific medication interventions
  • Influence on socialization behavior
• Interventions to Specific Difficult Behaviours
  • Internet and electronic addictions can be reduced
  • Changes in technology, schools systems, and mental healthcare delivery
  • Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT), for anxiety and mood
• Psychopharmacological Interventions
  • Differentiate between common medications
  • Meds that mimic difficult behavior
  • Side effects and non-label use
• Case Studies, Demonstrations & Activities
  • These case studies show specific interventions for both aggressive and non-aggressive situations.-Compliance behaviors
  • iPad® apps for social success, behavioral changes and speech and language
  • To help staff understand what someone with a spectrum may think, there are training methods.

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