| Concord, CA Workshops Dec 1-2, 2010 |
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Young Adults and Transitioning to Adulthood
Transitioning into adulthood and living as young adults can overwhelm individuals born to social learning challenges, even those who are “bright” with strong language skills. This workshop focuses on helping parents, professionals (e.g. teachers, counselors, psychologists) and even the students prepare for and respond to this transition. We will explore the more nuanced expectations of emerging into adulthood and strategies to help individuals develop a more mature Social Thinking® mindset, including an “I can do this” and “I need to do this” attitude. By providing concrete ways to develop a realistic transition plan, we help students and their parents prepare for life outside the schedule of the high school day. Michelle will share experiences from her treatment sessions to demonstrate ways to encourage the development of accountability, responsibility, motivation, social-leisure networks and anxiety management. We will wrap up the workshop day with practical lessons to promote accuracy, productivity and social-emotional problem solving in vocational environments. The information in this workshop will serve as a basis for the second day’s workshop on working and living as an adult in the community
Course Objectives | Participants will be able to:
- Describe the meaning of “Social Thinking nuance and sophistication” of the adult mind and how this influences our expectations and related intervention strategies.
- Define the term “emotional compression” and how this relates to what we teach students and how they process others’ responses.
- Explain a “realistic transition plan” and name 3 items to focus on in transition planning.
- Provide an example of a lesson to teach students to evaluate their motivation and become accountable for applying the lessons learned to another setting.
- Explain how anxiety can be a “stop sign” in an individual’s ability to use Social Thinking and related skills.
- Explain a way to teach students graph their “good job” skills, including being “accurate” and “productive,” in addition to Social Thinking.
Adult Social Thinking for Work and Community
Smart but “socially clueless” adults, many of whom didn’t receive any diagnosis or therapy when younger, continue to face a lack of services. With release of our book, Socially Curious and Curiously Social: a social thinking guidebook for teens and young adults, we were swamped with requests on teaching Social Thinking to this underserved group. Going beyond diagnostic labels, this workshop focuses on how we all live within social boundaries that encourage others to include us and show they value us. We will explore the social-emotional expectations active throughout the work world. We will introduce the 5 Steps to Social Thinking Psychology and Social Thinking Social Emotional Chain Effects that we all subconsciously react and respond to. Reviewing dilemmas encountered by “bright” adults who have fallen off career tracks, we will describe where social-learning breakdowns happen and strategies to avoid them, including coping skills and how to work as part of a team. In addition, we will redefine what it means to function as an “independent adult” and provide strategies to determine where to begin the Social Thinking treatment process. Remarkably, even college-educated, scientifically or artistically gifted adults who are living “on their own” may still not be independent or able to manage all adult expectations until we teach them how to function independently. We will also address the complex issues that parents of these adults face.
Course Objectives | Participants will be able to:
- Explain using the ILAUGH model of Social Thinking; why our clients, many of whom can state they have good intentions, are interpreted as being selfish, arrogant or difficult to work with.
- List in order, starting from most fundamental to most appreciated, the 4 skills we perceive to refer to someone as functioning independently as an adult.
- Describe 3 elements related to the Social Emotional Chain Effect and how this awareness impacts our own communicative interpretation and responses.
- Explain why in Social Thinking we describe everyone as having “social paranoia” and how this affects what we teach in terms of our own social responses.
- Describe how to teach a client about workplace social hierarchy and how he/she is expected to adapt his/her behavior based on this unexplained, but omnipresent concept.
- Explain what is meant by the statement, “Language is an inference to take care of each other’s emotions” and provide one strategy to teach clients this abstract concept.
Comments from Participants of Michelle's 2010 Workshops
- "One word: Awesome. Michelle gets it!" - school psychologist
- "The most intelligent, humane understanding of socially challenged people I've ever had occasion to hear" - parent
- "Every general education teacher who is privileged to include students on the spectrum in their classroom would benefit from this workshop" - Kindergarten teacher
- "Simply great parenting strategies to use with all kids!"
- "Chomping at the bit to take it back to the school district" - OTD, OTR
- "Great source of valuable, practical information" - MFT
- "I can take everything I've learned here and put to use in therapy" - SLP
More on Michelle & Pam
Michelle Garcia Winner, MA, CCC-SLP, specializes in the treatment of individuals with high-functioning autism, Asperger syndrome, ADHD, PDD-NOS, nonverbal learning disability (NLD) and similar challenges. She recently received a Congressional award for her creation of the Social Thinking treatment approach. Michelle directs a small clinic in San Jose, CA, and trains professionals nationally and internationally on Social Thinking. She has authored numerous books on this subject and she serves on the Panel of Professional Advisers of the Autism Society of America.
Pam Crooke, PhD, CCC-SLP, is senior therapist at Social Thinking and a faculty member at San Jose State University in San Jose, CA. She authored, with Michelle, Socially Curious and Curiously Social, a guidebook for teenagers and young adults and You Are a Social Detective, a comic book curriculum that introduces Social Thinking to younger students.
Continuing Education Units
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: This program is offered for 0.6 CEU per workshop day, intermediate level, professional area.
Fee - If needing ASHA hours, include one $10 fee to cover administration of ASHA CEUs by Think Social Publishing
California State CEUs for MFTs, LCSWs and SLPs.
Washington State clock hours will be provided; an additional fee must be paid to the ESD for these.
Intended audience: speech-language pathologists; therapists (MFTs; LCSWs; OTs; PTs); teachers; social workers; autism specialists; clinical, educational and developmental psychologists; clinical and educational administrators; physicians; nurses; nurse practitioners; paraprofessionals; parents and other family members and caregivers of students with social thinking challenges.
POPULATION TO BE DISCUSSED: Individuals with high-functioning autism, PDD-NOS, Asperger syndrome, NLD, ADHD and related disabilities, focusing on those with near normal to far above normal verbal intelligence (verbal IQs above 70). Strategies will concentrate on teenagers and young adults and adults; however, the content will provide guidance for the treatment direction we should provide for school-age students.
EARLY REGISTRATION
Must be received by November 17, 2010!*Discounts for groups of 5 or more BUT all registrations must be sent in / entered together!
Professional/Paraprofessional
2 Day Attendance: $315 Individual/$283.50 Group*1 Day Attendance: $170 Individual/$153 Group*
Parent or Nonprofessional College Student
2 Day Attendance: $280 Individual/$252 Group*
1 Day Attendance: $150 Individual/$135 Group*
REGULAR REGISTRATION
All registrations received November 17, 2010
Professional/Paraprofessional
2 Day Attendance: $350 Individual
1 Day Attendance: $190 Individual
Parent or Nonprofessional College Student
2 Day Attendance: $315 Individual
1 Day Attendance: $170 Individual
Continental breakfast provided!
Workshops Location (click to map) and Time
8:30 a.m. Sign-in
9 a.m-4 p.m. Workshops
1970 Diamond Blvd., Concord, CA 94520 click to map and see other hotels nearby
Continental breakfast and breaks included
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