Communication Strategies for Autism: Supporting Engagement, Self-Advocacy, and Transitions
November 30, 2022
Join the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for an online conference Communication Strategies for Autism: Supporting Engagement, Self-Advocacy, and Transitions.
Registration opens September 1.
This comprehensive online conference will explore practical approaches for supporting communication for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through a neurodiversity perspective. Participants will learn tools and practices to support individuals and families with community and peer engagement, self-advocacy, and transitions.
Whether you are an experienced or newer clinician, you will walk away from this conference with practical strategies to support autistic individuals across the age spectrum and their families with functional, personally relevant, and culturally relevant goals.
At this online conference, we estimate you will be able to earn up to 2.0 ASHA CEUs or 20.0 professional development hours (PDHs).
The amount of units you earn is based on the number of sessions you complete and chats you attend.
Sessions Include…
- Early Childhood Transitions: Helping Families of Children With Autism Navigate the Merge Lane
- Strategies to Engage and Empower Parents in Intervention for Their Children With ASD
- The Power of No: Teaching Young Children with ASD to Self-Advocate
- Promoting Peer Engagement, Interactions, and Relationships for Students Learning to Use AAC
- Using Neuroscience and Neurodiversity to Inform Communication Intervention for Individuals with ASD
- Autistic Perspectives on Self-Advocacy, Engagement, and Transitions
- Demystifying Behavioral Masking by Autistic Individuals: Shifting to Acceptance
- Adolescence and Autism: Developing a Pathway to Independence, College, and Career Readiness
- Preparing Preschool Children With ASD for Peer Interaction
- Neurodiversity and Self-Determination in Early Childhood
These pre-recorded sessions are on-demand and last about an hour, so you can watch them whenever time permits!