Great Falls - October 15
Bozeman - October 16
Billings - October 17
Meeting the Communication, Behavior & Social Skill Challenges in Autism Spectrum Disorders & Related Learning Challenges
Most students with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and related communication challenges are visual learners! Capitalizing on their strengths, the use of visual strategies alters many social, communication, and educational challenges. This program will demonstrate effective ideas for using a range of low tech to high tech visual tools, including video and tablets like iPads and Apps, to help students organize their lives, significantly reduce behavior problems, and improve student successful participation. This program will define the need, discuss training, and demonstrate many practical ideas for both special and regular education settings.
Participants will learn to:
Linda Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is internationally known as a pioneer in developing the use of visual strategies to support communication for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related learning challenges. Linda is the author of Visual Strategies for Improving Communication and Solving Behavior Problems in Autism.
Most students with Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome and related communication challenges are visual learners! Capitalizing on their strengths, the use of visual strategies alters many social, communication, and educational challenges. This program will demonstrate effective ideas for using a range of low tech to high tech visual tools, including video and tablets like iPads and Apps, to help students organize their lives, significantly reduce behavior problems, and improve student successful participation. This program will define the need, discuss training, and demonstrate many practical ideas for both special and regular education settings.
Participants will learn to:
• Identify significant factors in student learning and functioning style that affect communication.
• Informally assess the student’s communication strengths and challenges.
• Recognize situations where communication breakdowns can affect the student’s understanding, behavior and participation in social opportunities.
• Use the Guide for Assessing Behavior Situations to identify causes of behavior problems.
• Develop visual tools to support communication, behavior & social skills
• Identify uses for a range of low tech to high tech tools such as iPads, Apps and video for meeting communication & learning needs.
Linda Hodgdon, M.Ed., CCC-SLP is a Speech-Language Pathologist who is internationally known as a pioneer in developing the use of visual strategies to support communication for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and related learning challenges. Linda is the author of Visual Strategies for Improving Communication and Solving Behavior Problems in Autism.
