Daniel Marston – High-Functioning Autism

You will leave with practical interventions techniques to achieve social success, behavior change and overcome challenging coworkers-Developing behaviors that lead to success in adulthood.

Daniel Marston – High-Functioning Autism

DSM-5® and ICD-10 updates

• Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder
• Impact on service delivery (school/community)
• You can successfully link your home, school, and therapy
• IEP/504/Do they have the right to receive school services?
• Co-Morbid disorders: What is the difference?

Social Skills Interventions

• Improve social skill deficits
• ”Kid Cop” behaviors and why other kids get angry
• How to get peers and colleagues to recognize you in positive manners
• Activities for groups
• Strategies for early intervention that are long-lasting-Success is a term

Communication Interventions

• Effective conflict resolution strategies that work in many settings
• Refer to family and friends for help
• Processing overloads are caused by verbal interventions
• Pragmatic language, and other abstract topics

Sensory Interventions

• Self-stimulation (appropriate & inappropriate)
• Avoidable using sensory strategies
• Techniques for calming and coping that help to reduce meltdowns
• Sensory diet

Anxiety Interventions

• Anxiety-Activities to reduce
• 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
• The emergence of adolescence
• Solitude vs. loneliness

ADHD Interventions

• ADHD vs. Hyper-Focus
• Commonly prescribed medication and side effects
• There are specific triggers that can fuel the rage.
• Reduce disruptive and aggressive behavior
• Making mistakes can lead to defiant behaviours
• Be able to overcome refusals to comply even with simple requests

Obsessive-Interventions for Obsessive Disorder (OCD).

• How to help them if they get stuck in high-interest areas
• Specific medication interventions
• Socialization and behavior impact

Interventions to Specific Difficult Behaviours

• Internet and electronic addictions can be reduced
• Technology, school systems, and mental health delivery have undergone significant changes
• Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (CBT), for anxiety, mood, and depression

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.

Research, Limitations and Risks

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Description:

This recording provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to help you analyze behaviors and actions, identify consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functional autism (HFA). Practical intervention techniques to help you succeed in social situations, behavior changes, and overcome challenging co-You can develop behaviors that will help you succeed in adulthood. The co-There are several issues that must be addressed.

• Social skills
• Sensory
• Depression
• ADHD
• Psychotropic medication
• Communication
• Anxiety/Rigidity
• Meltdowns
• OCD
• Non-Conformity

You will gain valuable insight into common psychotropic medication, including the beneficial effects as well as potential side effects. We will discuss HFA as well as the new DSM.-5® diagnosis of Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder. You will be provided with the tools necessary to facilitate effective collaboration between educators, parents, and clinicians.

This recording will provide you with the skills and confidence to use video clips, case studies and classroom participation to help children, teens and young adults with HFA identify and change impediments, create more effective consequences, and teach new skills. Don’t just manage these individuals; provide interventions that can lead to successful independence into their adult years!