ICDL's CEO, Dr. Guenzel, speaks at the ANISA World Autism Acceptance Day event.
Focus on myths regarding autism and autistic spectrum disorders and a discussion with the Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health.
The highlights of the true current best understanding of what an autistic spectrum disorder means including the causes, prognosis, treatment options, and myths and mistakes as best we know it.
How to help children learn to attend, be calm, regulated, engage with others, and begin the process of communication.
Strategies to enhance back-and-forth communication, shared social problem solving interactions, and the beginning of learning to use ideas and words.
How to help children learn to speak, use ideas, and connect ideas together in order to think.
How to help children advance from the basic levels of thinking into the more advanced levels of reflective thinking and abstract thinking.
Answering specific and frequent questions regarding children with special needs, mainly focusing on self-stimulation and perseveration.
How to help children master their tendencies to script, to be echolalic, and to be perseverative in their use of words as well as their use of behaviors, as well as be sensory craving.
How to help children with the challenge of being very sensory craving and very active, and therefore often very avoidant.
Working with families with special needs and their specific family patterns to turn these challenges into positive responses and constructive opportunities for the child and the family.
How to work with the unique biological differences of a child with special needs or autistic spectrum disorders.
How to help children with severe visual deficits master the stages of functional emotional development and develop visual-spatial thinking.
How to help children with hearing challenges, motor challenges, and non-verbal learning difficulties develop cognitive skills and use sensory modalities to master the functional developmental capacities.
Case discussion of how children with autistic spectrum disorders can develop social skills using the DIR®/Floortime™ Model, contrary to what popular literature assumes.
Stories and steps in helping children who are beginning to become aware of some of their challenges and differences from other children, understand and cope with this awareness; and helping children overcome their compulsions and fears.
Question and answer session with the parents and staff of Imagine Academy from New York.
Question and answer session with Lisa Jo Rudy from About.com Guide to Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
The pathways to Asperger's Syndrome and the developmental principles that apply to this diagnosis.
Dealing with problems of aggression and behavior in schools for children of all ages through the ethical point of view of intervening with children with special needs or an autistic spectrum disorder.