PEPSA Training Events!

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Proven Strategies for Teaching Reading to Struggling Learners & Boys: How to Teach and Reach Them

This training will assist participants in learning ways to adapt their instruction when working with children who learn in different ways and at different rates. Participants will learn how to identify a struggling learner and will gain practical ideas, strategies, and activities that will help all learners and readers succeed. Additionally, insights into struggling learners’ capabilities and needs will be shared and participants will leave with many usable ideas that can be implemented immediately in the classroom, home, or practice setting. Additionally, information will be shared on gaining an understanding of how boys and girls learn differently. When we understand the brain, learning styles, and academic and physical nature of each gender, we can better address classroom learning and behavior.

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Transition to Adulthood for Individuals with ASD: The Pathways to Success Beyond the Classroom

This training will assist participants in learning ways to adapt their instruction when working with children who learn in different ways and at different rates. Participants will learn how to identify a struggling learner and will gain practical ideas, strategies, and activities that will help all learners and readers succeed. Additionally, insights into struggling learners’ capabilities and needs will be shared and participants will leave with many usable ideas that can be implemented immediately in the classroom, home, or practice setting. Additionally, information will be shared on gaining an understanding of how boys and girls learn differently. When we understand the brain, learning styles, and academic and physical nature of each gender, we can better address classroom learning and behavior.

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Reducing Seclusion and Restraint &
An Administrator’s Guide to the Autism Spectrum

In the morning, Dr. Wright will discuss methods of reducing seclusion and restraint through a better understanding of the connections between autism, behavior and the role of the classroom environment, leading to more effective strategies for these students.
In the afternoon, Dr. Wright will present an administrator's guide to the autism spectrum. A discussion of the characteristics, challenges, needs and strategies for children with autism in mainstream and self-contained classrooms, and how administrators can be an effective part of the team.

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The ACBs of ADHD & Organizational and Study Strategies for Students with Attention and Executive Functioning Deficits

The ACBs of ADHD will provide attendees with a medical, neurodevelopmental and historical evolution and perspective of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders (combined, inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive subtypes). A brief overview of pharmacological and behavioral interventions will be discussed.
Organizational and Study Strategies for Students with Attention and Executive Functioning Deficits will provide attendees with easy-to-implement systems to aid students of all ages in becoming more organized and task/goal orientated. School recommendations will be given to assist parents and students with advocating for their educationally relevant needs.

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All You Need to Know About Childhood Anxiety but Were “AFRAID” to Ask

• What is anxiety?
• About the prevalence of anxiety in childhood.
• The signs and symptoms of anxiety in children.
• Different types of anxiety.
• Tools for how to identify patients with anxiety in your setting.
• Tools for how to manage patients with anxiety in your setting.
• Assessment for anxiety.
• Treatments for anxiety.
• Practice strategies/tools/practical strategies to manage anxiety.

UM-NSU CARD Autism Summer Institute

This 2-day workshop will focus on the following topics:
Day 1: You’re Going to Love this Kid! – Participants will learn practical ways of supporting students with autism spectrum labels and other disabilities within a general education classroom. Topics addressed include listening to the voices of those with autism, creating more active and responsive lessons, providing opportunities for communication and social skill development, and using fascinations and special interests as a support tool.

Day 2: From Text Maps to Memory Caps: Differentiating Instruction in K-12 Classrooms – Educators will learn strategies and adaptations to engage, motivate, support, and inspire a diverse group of students by creating classroom games, study aids, visual supports, teaching tools, and review materials.

USF CARD Autism Summer Institute

The Autism Summer Institute is an annual workshop aimed at providing high quality professional development to a wide spectrum of professionals, including ESE and general education teachers, guidance counselors, school psychologists, SLPs, OTs, instructional assistants, administrators, and parents who impact the lives of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Day 1: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Keynote: Social Skills Teaching Kits for Children with Autism Presented by: Joel Shaul, LCSW

Day 2: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Keynote: What Happens When It’s More Than ASD? Presented by: Josh Nadeau, Ph.D.

Each day, the keynote will be followed by two 90-minute breakout sessions.

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FAU CARD Annual Summer Academy:
Personal Safety: Addressing Issues of Sexuality with Children and Youth with ASD

This training will provide information and suggested strategies for teachers and other schoolbased personnel to assist individuals with ASD who may be engaging in inappropriate classroom/school behavior, including: touching others without permission, touching themselves, unwanted attempts to engage in romantic relationships, and difficulty understanding differences between public versus private behavior. The presenters will review research-based teaching techniques to improve appropriate social interactions between students with ASD and their same-aged peers to address a variety of sexually maladaptive behaviors within various school settings. Suggestions for clarifying differences between romantic relationships versus friendships, personal safety, and helping students avoid behavior defined as sexual harassment will be reviewed along with suggestions for dealing with attraction to others and engaging in safe personal and romantic relationships. This training is for teachers, parents, caretakers, and professionals only. It is not appropriate for children or adults diagnosed with ASD. Specific strategies and educational information will be provided to address maladaptive sexual behavior in school-aged youth with ASD.

CAUTION: Language, pictures, and images presented will be graphic in nature and may be offensive to some individuals.

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FAU CARD Annual Summer Academy:

Promoting Self-Determination Across the Curriculum from Upper Elementary through High School for Students with ASD

This daylong session will explore the importance of promoting self-determination for all students with and without disabilities, including students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The session will explore the meaning and importance of self-determination, examine the literature supporting the importance of promoting self-determination, and explore the alignment between promoting self-determination and the promotion of 21st-century skills. The session will then overview evidence-based practices and strategies to promote self determination across the lifespan, particularly from the late elementary to high school years. An instructional model, the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction, will be introduced that can be used to facilitate the promotion of self-determination in multiple educational contexts and can be embedded across the curriculum, school, home, and community. Further, assessments to determine self-determination and areas of instructional need will be addressed.

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Solve It! Teaching Mathematical Word Problem Solving to Students with ASD

The mathematics curriculum is one of the most difficult for many children. For children with autism, these difficulties are made more pronounced by language and executive functioning deficits. Children with autism deserve to be provided with the tools they need to be successful in applied problem solving. This workshop will introduce the Solve It! problem solving routine, a strategy-instruction curriculum developed by Montague (1996) and adapted for children with autism by Schaefer Whitby (2018). The curriculum consists of teaching students seven cognitive strategies and three meta-cognitive strategies. Solve It! can be an effective intervention as it capitalizes on the student’s strengths, rote/procedural knowledge, and visual reasoning while supporting learning weaknesses, conceptual knowledge, and abstraction. Three case studies and work samples will assist participants in understanding the unique issues that children with autism may encounter when learning to solve word problems.

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