FW: Free Autism Training Modules

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From: benito@...To: mamanila@...Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 13:07:04 -0400Subject: Free Autism Training Modules

The following link will take you to a website that comes highly recommended. It provides FREE training modules in skills and information used for children/adolescents having Autism. Many of these, however, are also important to serviing other types of limitations in other children. It would certainly be good to view the Computer Aided Instruction module, the Picture Exchange System (which I understand includes step by step instruction on how to create one), Visual Supports, the Incredible 5-point scale (which I've shown the book to some of you), and any others. Again these are FREE.

http://www.autisminternetmodules.org/user_mod.php

The AIM project was begun in 2007 as a way to provide parents and professionals with the up-to-date information they need to help individuals with ASD achieve their highest potential.

Developed by the Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence (OCALI) in partnership with the Autism Society of America (ASA), the Nebraska Autism Spectrum Disorders Network, the National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders and Toronto's Geneva Centre for Autism, this series of online learning modules includes information on assessment and identification of ASDs, recognizing and understanding behaviors and characteristics, transition to adulthood, employment, and numerous evidence-based practices and interventions.

All module content has been written by ASD experts from across the U.S., including the Arizona Department of Education, the Indiana Resource Center for Autism, and the University of Miami Center for Autism and Related Disorders. In addition, OCALI staff members have designed each module to be consistent with research on how adults learn; information is presented at a universal reading level, and interactive activities both reinforce knowledge and teach learners how to make the latest research applicable to real life.

Please pass this on to other teachers that could benefit from using this web training.