Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Special Topics

Administrators and ASD Frequently Asked Questions Part 1

Are you a School Administrator with questions about Supporting Students with Autism? If so, you won’t want to miss this two part webinar series. In this series we will answer the most frequently asked questions we receive from school administrators including the following: Do most students with autism need a para educator working with them? What are effective strategies for dealing with problem behaviors and diverse sensory needs? What do we do when things aren’t working?

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Special Topics

Administrators and ASD Frequently Asked Questions Part 2

This webinar will include interviews and tips from current school administrators and will include topics such as how to support staff training needs, how to help staff individualize programming for students with autism, how to be involved and or lead effective IEP meetings, working with outside providers and more.

Completion Time: 35 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

All About Small Group Instruction

In this webinar, Sasha Long, founder and president of The Autism Helper, will discuss why small group instruction is essential for meeting the diverse needs of learners. She will cover what considerations should be made when establishing small group instruction. Participants will also learn key strategies for scheduling group rotations, para training, and the necessary evidence based practices to utilize while running groups.

Completion Time: 68 min

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

The Incredible 5-Point Scale and Anxiety

Anxiety is often a part of the autistic profile. Anxiety is also the most contagious of all emotions, and anxiety is personal. Because of these issues, it is essential that all educators, when faced with troublesome, disturbing, or confusing behavior have an objective planning system on hand. The anxiety curve, as introduced by Buron and Curtis, in 2003 provides just such a system. This webinar will discuss the use of the anxiety curve to both address emotional regulation with students, and as a tool for educational planning. Kari will connect the curve to the Incredible 5-Point Scale; and illustrate how it relates to other common teaching strategies.

Completion Time: 72 min

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Strategies for Increasing Problem Solving in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

In this webinar Dr. Kisamore will share a problem-solving strategy that can be used to guide the instruction of a variety of social and vocational skills topics and be used by the student to independently complete vocational tasks and work through different types of problems.

Completion Time: 55 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication

Teaching Advanced Verbal Behavior Using Speech- Generating Devices

This presentation will cover a series of studies examining procedures to teach mands for information, intraverbals to report past behaviors, and tacts of noun-verb combinations to non-vocal children with autism. Considerations and complications when teaching these skills using high-tech SGDs will be discussed.

Completion Time: 58 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Supportingl Students with Autism: Strategies for the General Education Classroom

Gain a better understanding of students with autism who have average to above average language and cognitive abilities to help support and improve their overall educational experience.

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 1

This four-part series will support teachers faced with the immense challenge of providing a free and appropriate public education to learners with a wide variety of needs that often manifest in significantly disruptive behavior.

Completion Time: 63 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 2 A

Completion Time: 41 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 2 B

Completion Time: 24 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 2 C

Completion Time: 40 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 2 D

Completion Time: 60 minutes

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You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 3

Completion Time: 92 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

You Have to Build the Plane as You Fly It!: Core Components of an Evidence Based Behavior Support Program Part 4

Completion Time: 90 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Getting Ready for A New Student with Autism

This webinar is designed to help those working with students with autism by giving an overview of common characteristics and providing some helpful tips and strategies for a successful school year.

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication

Practical Strategies for Obtaining Critical Mass

Critical mass, a term discussed in Excelling with Autism: Obtaining Critical Mass Using Deliberate Practice, explains the formula needed to achieve spontaneous generalization. This webinar will provide a variety of ways and strategies to achieve spontaneous generalization in the areas of conversation, problem solving, and emotional understanding.

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Strategies to Support Better Student Behavior

This training will help participants to identify why students use challenging behavior. Participants will understand the role they play in the behavior and learn ways to improve student behavior through accurate and consistent use of evidence-based practices.

Completion Time: 55 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports Transitions

Getting Started with PEERS for Adults: Social Skills Training for Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This webinar will provide an overview of the PEERS for Adults: Social Skills Training. Particpants will be able to identify social skills deficits among adults; recognize the importance of improving and developing friendships, limitations of existing interventions and research, and an overview of how to get started with the PEERS curriculum for adults.

Completion Time: 55 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

Getting Started with PEERS for Adolescents: Social Skills Training for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This webinar will provide an overview of the PEERS Social Skills program for Adolescents. It will include information to help participants understand the following: How to recognize the importance of improving friendships; Consider limitations of existing social skills interventions; Explore research findings related to social skills instruction; and Learn how to implement the PEERS social skill curriculum for adolescents.

Completion Time: 55 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication

Strategies for Increased Interprofessional Collaboration between Educators, Behavior Analysts, & Speech Pathologists to Support Children with Communication Needs

Working as a part of a multi-disciplinary team for students with communication needs involves integrating varying perspectives of language development. Learn about collaboration bias and strategies for effective interprofessional practice, as well as strategies to support communication development in young children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities. Assess your own collaboration bias and identify three ways to better collaborate with colleagues.

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Why is Escape or Avoidance Behavior Happening? How Do Motivating Operations Affect Behavior in the Classroom?

This webinar will cover the following: What is a Motivating Operation? How does the Conditioned Motivating Operation- Reflexive effect the behavior of our students with autism? How can we effectively abolish the CMO-R and improve behavior?

Completion Time: 40 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Proactive Behavior Management Part 1: Relationship-Based Strategies

With the national average of students spending over 1,000 hours each school year with their teachers, it is crucial that we understand the importance of positive interactions. The focus of this presentation includes ways to increase appropriate behavior and decrease problematic behavior.

Completion Time: 17 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Proactive Behavior Management Part 2: Procedural Strategies

Participants will gain an understanding of 11 procedural proactive strategies. This webinar will help participants identify the degree to which each strategy is currently being utilized in your setting / with your student(s) and develop a plan for how to increase appropriate behavior and decrease problematic behavior through the consistent use of these strategies.

Completion Time: 19 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Incredible 5‐Point Scale

Social cognition involves social awareness, emotional awareness, relationship building, self management and emotional regulation. Social cognition is a developmental issue and can impact a person’s confidence and competence in almost all social situations. This presentation will highlight the use of a highly systemized scale to teach skills in these four areas.

Completion Time: 60 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

Circle of Friends Part 1: An Introduction to CoF

This webinar will explore the evidence-base for Circle of Friends. Participants will learn circle of friends implementation basics and compare different CoF models.

Completion Time: 40 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

Circle of Friends Part 2: Planning and Implementing

Through a Circle of Friends program, typically developing peers are taught important information about classmates with social challenges, and are invited and encouraged to befriend them. This presentation will discuss the specifics of implementing a circle of friends program. The webinar will include information on how to set up your group, how to address peer awareness and training about autism, teaching social skills, and developing relevant CoF lesson plans.

Completion Time: 40 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Connecting Verbal Behavior Programs with Natural Environment Training - Part 2

Part 2 of this 2-part series will focus on teaching and generalizing verbal behavior skills in the natural environment. Easy to use strategies to help students connect their verbal behavior skills to activities in the natural environment will be shared. Generalization of skills in the natural environment leads to more independence and successful participation in a variety of activities.

Completion Time: 20 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

Peer-Mediated Interventions

Participants will describe the importance of involving peers in efforts to expand social relationships and learning, identify how peer support and peer network interventions can benefit students with and without disabilities, and will learn practical strategies for recruiting students, developing effective intervention plans, orienting students to their roles, and supporting them as they work together.

Completion Time: 41 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Unstuck and On Target: Helping Students with Planning, Organization and Flexible Thinking: Part 1

Increase your understanding of how to identify and teach executive functioning skills and accommodate executive functioning weaknesses.

Completion Time: 35 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Unstuck and On Target: Helping Students with Planning, Organization and Flexible Thinking: Part 2

This webinar will cover: How to tell if it’s a behavior is because of a can’t or a won’t, and How to explicitly teach EF skills, including how to make accommodations, use visual supports and techniques from the new edition of Unstuck and On Target.

Completion Time: 48 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Unstuck and On Target: Helping Students with Planning, Organization and Flexible Thinking: Part 3

This webinar will review the final components of how to teach EF skills; and a review of how we know that Unstuck and On Target works. The presenter will review additional resources, – and the new online parent training program – What’s next for Unstuck.

Completion Time: 63 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Errorless Teaching

This webinar will provide an overview of how to select student skills appropriate for errorless teaching. It will also describe and illustrate the 4 steps in the errorless teaching procedure.

Completion Time: 20 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports Transitions

PEERS® Part 1: An overview of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills

This webinar will provide an overview of the social deficits and consequences of peer rejection in autism spectrum disorder, and a discsussion of the limitations of existing social skills programs. The webinar will discuss effective methods of social skills instruction and provide an overview of the PEERS® curriculum and research findings.

Completion Time: 40 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports Transitions

PEERS® Part 2: Strategies for Handling Teasing/Bullying

By the end of this webinar, participants will be familiar with strategies to address teasing, strategies to address physical bullying, cyberbullying and minimize rumors and gossip.

Completion Time: 45 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Transitions

Teaching Skills that Matter: Teaching Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Competencies in Any Classroom

This webinar will provide an overview of the College and Career Competency Framework. It will provide information on how to get started exploring outcomes and instructional strategies to teach and provide opportunities for students to practice specific competencies.

Completion Time: 57 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Making Math Meaningful: Supporting Students with Autism in Math - Part 2

Part 2 of this 2-part series will discuss strategies for making math topics meaningful for students with autism spectrum disorder.

Completion Time: 41 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Making Math Meaningful: Task Analysis for math topics - Part 1

Part 1 of this 2-part series will look at strategies for identifying valid learning objectives, how to break those objectives into smaller parts, and then using the task analysis as an assessment tool.

Completion Time: 36 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

The importance of Social and Emotional Development - Part 1

In this 2-part webinar series, the importance of considering evidence-based practices within a framework that is sensitive to the social and emotional priorities for the student will be discussed. What we determine as the student’s targeted educational objectives should be as important as how we are providing accommodations. Providing evidence-based educational programming for students on the Autism Spectrum relies on a careful selection of focused approaches that have been shown to promote the acquisition of specific skills or the reduction of behaviors that are interfering with learning and social engagement in the classroom.

Completion Time: 48 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

The importance of Social and Emotional Development - Defining Engagement in Classroom Settings for Students on the Autism Spectrum - Part 2

Providing evidence-based educational programming for students on the Autism Spectrum relies on a careful selection of focused approaches that have been shown to promote the acquisition of specific skills or the reduction of behaviors that are interfering with learning and social engagement in the classroom. Based upon current systematic reviews, nearly three-dozen approaches are considered effective at promoting such positive outcomes.

Completion Time: 47 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Programing for Middle and High School Students with Autism: Assessments and Curriculum Guides for Secondary Students with ASD - Part 1

Part 1 of this 4-part series will provide information on assessments and curriculum guides for secondary students. Specific assessments and curriculum guides that will assist with the development of age appropriate goals and objectives for middle and high school, and transition students with ASD will be discussed. This presentation will discuss several priorities of instruction for secondary students with ASD and identify a variety of specific skills to target within in each assessment or curriculum guide.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Programming for Middle and High School Students with ASD: Developing Routines and Independence Using Task Analysis - Part 2

Part 2 of this 4-part series will introduce participants to how to choose appropriate routines to use a task analysis. We will discuss how prompts and cues can develop or hinder independence and methods to teach the skills we want to teach.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Programing for Middle & High School Students: Developing and Implementing Age-Appropriate Visual Supports for School and Community Environments - Part 3

Part 3 of this 4-part series will look into how to use visual supports to promote student success and independence. Visual supports are an evidence-based practice that, if used correctly, promote independence by providing meaning and predictability for individuals with ASD.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Assessment / Curriculum Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Social Supports

Programing for Middle & High School Students: Communication, Behavior and Social Supports for Secondary Students with ASD Part 4

Part 4 of this 4-part series will discuss how to identify several types of visual supports to use with secondary students with ASD. Specific supports to enhance the areas of Social skills, Communication, and Behavior will be covered.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Elements of Structured Teaching: The Principles of Structured Teaching - Part 1

Part 1 of this 5-part series will discuss the culture of autism and the TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication Handicapped Children) approach to instruction, which was developed by Eric Schopler in the late 1970s. An overview of the basic tenets for using visual supports to structure the environment to promote learning and independence will be presented.

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Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Elements of Structured Teaching: Physical Structure & Overall Classroom Schedules - Part 2

Part 2 of this 5-part series will discuss how physical structure of the environment effects learning. Physical Structure is the first step in learning about the Elements of Structured Teaching. It is the foundation upon which all of the other components are added. The Overall Classroom Schedule is developed once the Physical Structure of the space is in place. This presentation contains information critical to the organization, management, and flow of the program.

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Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Elements of Structured Teaching: Assessing Schedules and Structured Work Systems - Part 3

Part 3 of this 5-part series will discuss visual schedules and work systems. Each of these elements has key skills associated with them for the student to master, and a specific means for teachers to assess and individualize them for their students.

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Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Elements of Structured Teaching: Teaching Routines & Strategies - Part 4

Part 4 of this 5-part series will focus on the relationship between work systems and routines, the importance of teaching routines to help make the environment more meaningful, and support the development of strategies as a foundation for independence in all students.

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Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

The Elements of Structured Teaching: Visual Structure of Tasks - Part 5

Part 5 of this 5-part series will focus on the use of visual structure of tasks in order to capitalize on the visual strengths of the learners. The three components of visual structure will be presented: visual instructions, visual organization, and visual clarity.

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Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication

Verbal Behavior: Teaching using Verbal Behavior Strategies - Part 1

Part 1 of this 2-part series will help participants understand and define verbal behavior. The presenters will review the behavioral teaching components of reinforcement, pairing, discrete trial teaching, use of prompts and prompt fading, and error correction procedures.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication

Verbal Behavior: Using Verbal Behavior Strategies in Your Classroom - Part 2

Part 2 of this 2-part series will provide information on how to use verbal behavior strategies to teach a variety of skills, in a variety of settings. Curriculum programs such as the ABLLS-R, VB-MAPP and AFLS will be examined as resources for identifying skills to teach.

Completion Time: 39 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning Skills: STOP Strategy

This presentation will describe the features for each of the four elements of situational awareness: Space, Time, Objects, People. The presentation will discuss the relationship between situational awareness and self-regulation and the definition of ‘Mimetic Ideational Information Processing’ as it pertains to executive functioning skills. Strategies to increase a student’s ability to STOP and read the room will be shared.

Completion Time: 70 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Executive Functioning

Executive Functioning: “Job Talk” - Developing Independent Executive Function Skills

This presentation will help participants have a new understanding of Executive Function via the 360 ThinkingTM Model. It will review the key features of situational awareness: Space, Time, Objects, People; the importance of imaginary play and the concept of ‘role’ in the development of executive function skills; Semantic Psychological Essentialism and Job Talk from pre-school through Adulthood.

Completion Time: 65 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication Social Supports

Expanding The World Through Social Development: Your “Wh” Questions -Early Social Communicators - Part 1

Social skills instruction should be a critical part of EACH and EVERY day for students with ASD. Part 1 of this 3-part series will discuss how curriculum and activities have to be planned and implemented with as much consideration, if not more than math, literacy and every other area.

Completion Time: 55 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication Social Supports

Expanding The World Through Social Development: Your “Wh” Questions Emerging Social Communicators - Part 2

In part 2 of this 3-part series, participants will determine the needs of their students by utilizing the appropriate social skills assessment tools. The participants will be able to describe strengths and needs of students with emerging social communication skills. The participants will be able to explain the impact that social skills have on student access to relationships, education, different environments and quality of life. Participants will be able to design individualized social skills instruction across all environments.

Completion Time: 30 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies Communication Social Supports

Expanding The World Through Social Development: Your “Wh” Questions Conversational Social Communicators Part 3

Part 3 of this 3-part series will discuss how to determine the needs of their students by utilizing the appropriate social skills assessment tools, describe strengths and needs of students with conversational social communication challenges, explain the impact that social skills have on student access to relationships, education, different environments and quality of life, and design individualized social skills instruction across all environments.

Completion Time: 20 minutes

Topics: Behavior Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Low Tech Engagement for High Tech Classrooms

This webinar will provide an overview of some of the common barriers to engagement, while bringing awareness of how engagement and participation looks for children with autism. Participants will get a review of research-based strategies to increase engagement.

Completion Time: 35 minutes

Topics: Classroom Structure / Instructional Strategies

Supporting Literacy Through Assistive Technology

Participants of this webinar will gain understanding of common reading barriers for students with ASD, as well as features of technology that address those barriers. Participants will become more aware of the process to match student needs and technology features and the types of assistive technology tools available to support reading.

Completion Time: 51 minutes