Tri-State Webinar: Unstuck and On Target: Helping Students with Planning, Organization, and Flexible Thinking: Part 2 of 3

Description: 

In this three-part series, Dr. Anthony will discuss executive functioning difficulties in the classroom and in social situations. In Part 1, she discussed how one can Increase their understanding of how to identify and teach executive functioning skills and accommodate executive functioning weaknesses. In Part 2, you will learn how to tell if it's a behavior because of a can't or won't, and how to explicitly teach EF skills. In Part 3, Dr. Anthony will continue discussing how to teach EF skills, and how the Unstuck and On Target curriculum works. 

"Unstuck and On Target!" is a ready-to-use, empirically-supported curriculum written with the contribution of teachers, students and parents in order to help children with ASD learn cognitive flexibility and other executive function skills through fun and engaging lessons designed to be used in schools. Dr. Anthony will provide tips and tools you can use immediately.

Learner Objectives:

  1. Learn how to tell if it's a behavior is because of a "can't" or a "won't"
  2. Learn how to explicitly teach EF skills, including how to make accommodations, use visual supports and techniques from the new edition of  Unstuck and On Target

Presenter Information: 

Dr. Anthony completed a dual degree Ph.D. program in clinical and developmental psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1997. Since then, she has focused her most of her research and clinical work on children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and intervention development and implementation, including coauthoring both editions of Unstuck and On Target, Solving Executive Functioning Challenges and the new online parent training program e-Unstuck. She has also received funding for 11 federally-funded and 7 foundation research grants including several to study the Unstuck and On Target suite of interventions.

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Details

Type
Self-Guided Training, Video / Webinar / Podcast
Audience
Administrators, Educators, Family / Community, Related Services / Support Staff
Age
All Ages
Provider
TASN Autism and Tertiary Behavior Supports (ATBS)
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