DURHAM LIVE AUTISM TRAINING FOR OTs & OTHER PROFESSIONALS:
This live continuing education training is for occupational therapists and other professionals working with kids with autism on practical, everyday skills.
https://www.learnplaythrive.com/autism-training-durham
In The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism, you’ll learn:
BEHAVIOR PROBLEM SOLVING. Never again write generic behavioral interventions that just don’t work. You’ll learn a behavior problem solving process based on an in-depth understanding of autism learning styles that will allow you to feel more confident and successful in generating relevant and specific behavioral interventions for your clients.
THERAPY PROCESS. Get past feeling “stuck” and not knowing where to start with helping your clients meet their goals. Learn how to use informal assessment, individualized structure, visual instructions, and evidence-based autism teaching strategies to guide your therapy process from assessment through goal mastery and generalization.
MAKING SCHEDULES. Stop wasting your limited time making schedules that your clients don’t understand or use. You’ll learn howto create truly individualized schedules that will reduce transition battles and increase flexibility.
VISUAL TO-DO LISTS + SELF-CARE SKILLS. Move beyond giving constant redirections and reminders that leave you feeling ineffective and make your clients frustrated and confused. You’ll learn a method for creating visual to-do-lists that even your most concrete (or youngest) clients will understand. These visual to-do lists will keep your kids at the table for learning, increase independence in self-care skills, and provide new opportunities for social engagement and play.
PLAY & LEISURE. You know play and leisure are so important, but you often feel feel stuck knowing where to start or how to really teach your clients to play. Learn a fun, effective process for assessing and teaching play and leisure skills that blends structure with naturalistic strategies.
COMMUNITY INTEGRATION. Get past your fears of moving your intervention to the community, where real life happens! Learn exactly how to bring it all together and help your clients succeed out in the community.
You’ll learn how to confidently help your clients with ASD meet their goals without ever using rewards or consequences in your practice. It’s all about understanding how people with autism think and learn and shaping our interventions in a way that will be meaningful.
This course is actionable and concrete. You’ll develop intervention plans you can apply in your practice right away.
https://www.learnplaythrive.com/autism-training-durham
TESTIMONIALS:
“This is by far the best course and professional development I have done to enhance my OT practice! Meg has taken a huge amount of research, knowledge and experience and condensed it into a course that is accessible, practical and just makes sense. I highly recommend this course to any OT working with young people with autism. You will not only walk away with explicit strategies and interventions but also a much deeper and useful understanding of autism learning styles and how this informs our practice. ” – Christine Bagnall, OT (Australia)
“If you’re looking for effective, real life strategies for working with children on the autism spectrum, you need to take this course. Meg uses her extensive experience to teach you not only what to do, but actually how to do it! Her presentation is engaging, easy to follow, and you’ll walk away with the confidence that you can put these strategies into action right away.” – The Anonymous OT Blog
“I am not unfamiliar to the world of autism. I grew up with a brother with severe autism, and have been immersed in the world of autism ever since I was born… I have a love and intense passion for this population and have always felt confused and torn about what best practice was with this population. With so many drastically different treatment models and resources out there for this population, I struggled to feel successful always in providing effective and consistent treatment with this population. I always felt like something didn’t quite “fit” with some of the approaches I was seeing being utilized in different clinics. These methods clicked for me. When I started going through the modules, her style is so concise and practical- I could take that education and apply it to my practice IMMEDIATLEY. And as I hoped, I got to see immediate changes in my patients as well! I cannot express enough how fervently I feel about practitioners starting this course and their ability to feel confident in working with individuals with autism!” – Stephanie Kovacs, OTR/L (Illinois)
” I recommend this course to any OT or teacher who is working with children diagnosed with Autism and struggling to understand social skills and routines. Meg provides many simple techniques to integrate strategies that can have an immediate impact on the effectiveness of both therapy sessions and classroom instruction.”
– Jayson Davies, OTR/L OT School House Podcast
ABOUT MEG PROCTOR, OTR/L
I started my career as an OT in early intervention with huge expectations, a serious case of perfectionism, and not enough training to really help the kids I was seeing. Have you been there? It did not feel good.
Years later, after working my way through different settings and receiving a faculty appointment for UNC Chapel Hill’s TEACCH Autism program, I underwent months and months of extensive training in autism interventions and trained teachers, psychologists, and the occasional therapist from around the world in effective autism interventions for functional life skills. I looked back on those years of practice and cataloged the things I wished so badly I had known before. At every training I wondered, “Where on earth are the OTs? WE need this training!”
As the founder of Learn Play Thrive, I’ve continued to hone my clinical skills and find new ways to teach the therapists who want to do better work with their clients with autism. The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism is what I wished I had known all those year ago in early intervention, in school-based practice, and in the clinic. It is a synthesis of what I’ve learned from working with hundreds of kids with autism, mentoring OT students, coaching practicing therapists, and spending years studying autism learning styles.
I feel confident that it will change your practice.
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