Guest guest Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 NAA E-Newsletter Autism One 2008 Forwarded from our friends at Autism One AUTISM ONE 2008 CONFERENCE BEHAVIOR / COMMUNICATION / EDUCATION / THERAPIES TRACK SAMPLER MAY 21-25, 2008, CHICAGO, IL, www.autismone.org Dr. Shane, Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement at Children's Hospital Boston, presents: Use of Electronic Media to Promote Acquisition of Action Verbs and Prepositions. |This presentation will describe a clinical procedure for teaching action verbs and prepositions (known grammatical categories difficult in acquisition and use) to persons with ASD. The approach uses electronic screen media as an instructional medium. The two clinical strategies that use different visual configurations to develop an appreciation of this visual based syntax including: 1.. Teaching Language Concepts (TLC) uses a top-down associative approach and 2.. The Element Directive approach or bottom-up approach. Electronic media examples of these procedures and clinical outcomes will be included in the presentation. Dr. n Blank, Director, A Light on Learning, Columbia University Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program, presents: Reading Comprehension: Why This Skill Is So Elusive and How It Can Be ed? In reading, children with ASD often show excellent decoding abilities. At the same time, they frequently display marked difficulties in comprehension. The problems are common even among those with relatively high levels of verbal skill. This seriously impacts academic achievement and a wide range of related areas. The presentation will discuss the reasons for the difficulties and the ways in which traditional teaching can be modified so as to enable the children to succeed. The presentation will offer a new program Steps to Stories that incorporates unique content and methods to start the children on the path to effective comprehension. A further benefit to the program is that the skills it fosters often generalize to other verbal settings, including improved conversational abilities. s, MS, CCC-SLP, co-founder, Social Skill Builder, presents: Navigating Social Skills Training: From Practice to Real Life Application. Learn about the new methods of teaching social skills to children and adolescences with ASD and other language learning disorders. Discuss research and review case studies of subjects, from preschool through high school, who have made outstanding gains in social language and behavior. Understand how to easily implement techniques and motivate students to carry over skills into their daily lives. Lynch Barbera, RN, MSN, BCBA, Lead Behavior Analyst, Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project, presents: The Verbal Behavior Approach: Teaching Children with Autism Drawing on her experience as both a parent of a son with autism as well as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Lynch Barbera will provide participants with information to help children with autism learn language and other important skills. will highlight strategies from her book: The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders, and provide guidance using the scientifically proven strategies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) specifically utilizing B.F. Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Parents and professionals will be empowered with information regarding ABA/VB programming for children with autism and other developmental disorders. Getzell, OD, FCOVD, FCSO, presents: Vision: The Missing Link in Your Child's Perceiving, Processing and Performance. Vision is often the overlooked factor in perception, processing and performance. Sight is seeing clearly, but the vision process allows us to make sense out of our world and then do something about it. Behaviors like poor eye contact, looking out of the side of the eyes, self stimulation, reading and learning difficulties, difficulty making transitions, and inability to read social cues, speech delays, lack of awareness of surroundings, awkwardness and clumsiness, etc. are often the result of an inadequate visual process. Demonstrations will be done to better understand how vision governs or has a major impact on how we think, speak, listen and move. Think Autism. Think Cure. ® Click here to visit our website Forward email This email was sent to liz.desantis@..., by naa@... Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribeT | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by National Autism Association | 1330 W. Schatz Lane | Nixa | MO | 65714 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 AUTISM ONE 2008 CONFERENCE KEYNOTE ADDRESS - JENNY McCARTHY 5 Days That Will Change Your Child's Life The Sixth Annual Autism One Conference Returns to Chicago Wednesday, May 21 - Sunday, May 25, Chicago, Illinois THE REALITY OF RECOVERY Autism is a whole-body condition with many causes and many roads to recovery. Some children develop autism from vaccines, other children from exposure to molds, pesticides, and a host of environmental toxins. The pioneering efforts of parents and practitioners have brought new appreciation about the underlying causes that create the conditions of autism. Understanding the causes has led to safe and effective treatments that are helping our children get better. Main Conference: Friday, May 23 - Sunday, May 25 BRILLIANCE IN ACTION Learn at the breakthrough presentations highlighting over 100 of the most eminent autism experts across five tracks: 1. Biomedical Treatments 2. Behavior and Education Therapies 3. Complementary and Alternative Medicine 4. Adolescence and Adulthood 5. Government and Legal Issues MORE REAL ANSWERS From the time you arrive to when you leave you will be immersed in an environment of help, hope, and answers. Sign up for a Mentor Mom who will help you 24/7, get detailed answers in the workshops, sample, and get the recipes of special diets in the hotel restaurant, take advanced parent training classes, and participate in the Arts Festival classes. NEW FOR 2008 - Seminar with Amy Yasko, PhD - Interpreting Lab Tests Seminar - Thai Cooking as part of Special Diets - News Desk with In-Depth Analysis - Defeat Autism Now! Clinician Seminar - Advanced Parent Training Pre-Conference: Wednesday, May 21 - Thursday, May 22 EMPOWERMENT FROM EDUCATION Some topics require hands-on, day-long training. The Pre-Conference Days are rich in practical purpose and presented in a manner to quickly bring you the knowledge to help your child immediately. Wednesday, May 21. The Art of Special Diets. Preparing and cooking special diets was never so easy and delicious. Good food is the first foundation of recovery. Thursday, May 22. Defeat Autism Now! Clinician Seminar. Learn the science and join the movement of practitioners who are effectively treating autism. Thursday, May 22. First Responders - Law enforcement officials learn how to effectively spot and safely deal with situations involving individuals with autism. Thursday, May 22. Law Day. Everything IEP. Become your child's most effective education advocate. Thursday, May 22. What to do when a child won't eat: Feeding Disorders and Developmental Delays. Learn more at http://AutismOne.org or email info@... or call Ed at . Autism One is a parent-driven, charity organization helping children and families with autism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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