Timothy Kowalski – Autism & Asperger’s: Proven Techniques to Achieve Social and Academic Success in Children & Adolescents
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- Faculty:\sTimothy Kowalski
Duration:\s6 Hours 35 Minutes
Format:\sAudio and Video
Copyright:\sApr 27, 2016
Description
Evaluation tools to drive social success
Quickly formulate practical social goals to make IEPs a breeze
Avoid potential litigation by knowing the pitfalls
Target reading and writing deficits to improve academic success
Distinguish patterns of deficits with 4 Theories of Cognition
Enable client to see how their behavior impacts others!Are you struggling to find effective, evidence-based techniques to help your kids who present with social difficulties associated with Asperger’s syndrome and/or High Functioning Autism?
Join internationally known expert and author on Asperger’s syndrome, Timothy P. Kowalski, M.A., CCC-SLP, to discover innovative evidence-based strategies to evaluate and treat the underlying deficits associated with this diagnosis. Learn how Theory of Mind, Central Coherence, Executive Functions and Emotional Intelligence impact social functioning. Discover how to evaluate these individuals using practical tools that make planning intervention a breeze.
Walk away with hundreds of strategies that produce positive change in the social domains of interaction, communication and emotional regulation!
Handouts
Manual (37.09 MB) (37.09 MB)
69 Pages Available after Purchase\sOutline
Assessment of Client Behavior
Changes to DSM-5® and how they contrast with new ICD-10
Four theories of cognition to target intervention:
Theory of Mind for perspective taking and social appropriateness
Executive Function for flexibility, relevance, goal focus and experiential learning
Central Coherence for details to eliminate arguments based on narrow definitions and overuse of detail
Emotional Intelligence to address anxiety and rageEvaluation Strategies
Practical tools for all ages
Pitfalls in social-pragmatic evaluation
Avoiding potential litigation
Tools to formulate appropriate social goals
Formulate practical social goals to make IEPs a breezeProven Strategies to Improve:
Social Interaction and Social Communication
Teach how to “fake it” – dealing w/rude behavior
Nonverbal communication – impact on perspective taking
Develop the fine art of negotiation
Analyze what went wrong through Social Autopsies
Visual cues to improve interaction skills
Active listening for meaningful conversation
‘Repair Strategies’ for when things go wrong
Develop flexibility and control – “Go with the flow” and not interrupt\sSarcasm or bullying, which is it?Social-Emotional Regulation
Incorporate “Language of Emotions” to enhance empathy
Safe Havens and Hot Passes to avoid emotional meltdown
Relaxation techniques for anxiety and emotional regulation
Let “Bygones be Bygones”
Avoid emotional escalationAcademics
Bloom’s Taxonomy to reveal the underlying problem
Compensatory strategies to effectively compete with peers
Enhance test taking and homework
Teach the teacher (and others) to “think like the child”
Take the client’s perspective to target intervention
FacultyTimothy Kowalski, MA, CCC-SLP Related seminars and products: 6
Timothy P. Kowalski, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a licensed speech-language pathologist specializing in social-pragmatic communication deficits and internationally known expert on Asperger Syndrome. His Orlando practice has seen clients from Europe, South America and throughout the USA. Mr. Kowalski regularly consults to schools on best practices for students identified or suspected of having Asperger’s syndrome and provides schoolwide district inservices.
Mr. Kowalski presents internationally on a wide variety of issues relative to Asperger’s, is a guest lecturer at universities and colleges and is a consultant for forensic cases involving Asperger’s syndrome. He has worked in a variety of psychiatric healthcare delivery systems including in-patient and outpatient psychiatric hospitals, sex offender units, and school-based settings. Mr. Kowalski is the author of six books on Asperger syndrome: Asperger Syndrome Explained; Social-Pragmatic Success for Asperger Syndrome and Other Related Disorders; Are You In The Zone?; The Source for Asperger’s Syndrome; Me, Myself, and You; Understanding Emotions: A Guide for Adults; and an article entitled Assessing Social Communication in Asperger Syndrome.
He holds the position of vice president of professional practices in speech-language pathology for the Florida Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is also a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Autism Society of America, Council for Behavior Disorders, and the Council for Exceptional Children.
Mr. Kowalski is the recipient of the “2010 Clinician of the Year Award” offered by the Florida Association of Speech- Language Pathologists and Audiologists and the 2011 FLASHA nominee for the ASHA Louis M. di Carlo Award for Recent Clinical Achievement. He holds the “TEAMS 2000 Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year” award for his work with Autism in the four-countywide greater Orlando, Florida metropolitan area and has served on the board of directors for the Greater Orlando Chapter of the Autism Society of America.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Timothy Kowalski receives royalties from Professional Communication Services, Inc. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Timothy Kowalski is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Autism Objectives Society of America and the Florida Association for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
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