Are books for sale at your workshops?
Yes. Books are always for sale at workshops except for the odd occasion where they can’t sell them due to restrictions of conference being held in a public building.

Are books included in the workshop fee?
No. On very, very rare occasion are books included in the price. A full set of handouts is provided at each workshop.

Do I need permission if I want to photocopy information you have handed out at the workshops?
No. I really encourage audience members to share the information with other parents, professionals, and administrators. Please feel free to photo copy selected pages in my books and handouts for educational use as long as you keep my name associated with my materials!

You are talking for two full days; do you bore the pants off the audience?
Surely there are boring moments as part of each day given that we each have a limited attention span, but the general feedback from the audience is that the workshop information is presented in an “entertaining” style. I longed to be a stand-up comic in my early days, I practice a bit of these skills at my workshops….I also present in an “unedited” way, meaning that since I work for myself I can say what I believe to be true. This means that I usually don’t always agree with what is “politically correct”. I do try and encourage people to think for themselves as parents and professionals and then discuss their thoughts with others. We cannot accept that the focus of today’s education which is on standardized testing, is what all students need to help them develop skills for independence while also contributing to society as a whole.

Are your workshops appropriate for both parents, paraprofessionals and professionals?
The cool thing about these workshops is that even seasoned professionals usually find there is information presented that they have not heard discussed before and new ways to think about older information. Parents and professionals of all backgrounds are welcome to attend. Given this field is in its infancy parents and professionals together on are steep learning curves, and those who are more advanced in their knowledge will interpret the information more deeply then those who are hearing it for the first time.

Do you have to attend the workshop days in order?
The workshop days, Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day and Thinking About You Thinking About Me, are good days to start with. After that you can gain a lot of information from any of the other days presented. If you are not able to get to these first workshop days, the book Inside Out: What Makes a Person With Social Cognitive Deficits Tick? aligns with the Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day workshop; and the book, Thinking About You Thinking About Me, 2^nd edition is associated with a workshop by the same name.

Do your DVDs cover the workshop content?

I have four DVDs currently available. The DVD that is closest to a full workshop day is the one on teaching Organizational Skills. (3.5 hours with a workbook attached) My DVD, Growing Up Social, is a unique talk that is about normal social development in the preschool years and how that launches us into participating across the school day. This DVD reviews the 4 Steps of Perspective Taking and the 4 Steps of Communication as well as review some basic teaching strategies. (2 hours) The DVD Social Behavior Mapping, teaches how to teach this strategy to students and as well as to explain the philosophy behind it to teachers/parents. This is practical training tape for this very useful strategy that can be used for all students in a school! (1 hour)

The DVD most used for school trainings is "Social Thinking Across the Home and School Day". This provides a 2 hour summary of my all day workshop by the same name. Included in the DVD pack is also a 2 hour DVD on me working with students, elementary and high school age, in different group and individual sessions. (2-2 hour tapes).

Do you have podcasts or videostreaming lessons?

I have online training videos that people can access for relatively little money. Not as intensive as the workshops, but they are shot in my clinical office so they offer a casual "anytime, anywhere" option and good introductions and refresher courses to the core concepts and even, in the last one, a look at therapy. They run from 2 hours to 3.5 hours, for 9 hours of content -- each focusing on a different concept.