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Part 1: How Can We Help Teens When They Want Us to Go Away?
Series Name: Exploring the Unique Needs of Teens Who Are Developing Social Self-Awareness
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this first part of a two-part series we discuss teens’ expectations for how we work with them even when their social emotional self-regulation skills are lagging significantly behind their neurotypical peers. We explore how to help students deemed oppositional or resistant to active participation in classrooms and treatment sessions. We also review how education and employment laws in the USA change when children turn 18 years old.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Jan 21 - Feb 22
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 2: Choosing Social Strategies to Take Charge of One’s Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions
Series Name: Exploring the Unique Needs of Teens Who Are Developing Social Self-Awareness
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this second part of a two-part series, we examine the role of executive functions, social emotional learning, and use of metacognitive strategies when helping students learn how to meet their own goals. Concepts related to social conformity, boredom management, and fostering autonomy and motivation by developing one’s own self-management and public relations campaigns are explored.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Jan 22 - Feb 22
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 1: The Social-Academic Brain: The Role of Initiation and Listening with One’s Eyes and Brain
Series Name: Navigating Across School, Home, and Screen Landscapes using the ILAUGH Model
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Fostering social emotional learning and competencies is embedded in educational standards. Part 1 explores two components of the ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition to deconstruct how the social world works. Discover how challenges in social communication, the ability to initiate, and self-regulate impact written expression, reading comprehension of literature, and working in groups. Learn practical strategies via in-person or online.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Feb 1 - Mar 4
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 2: Thinking Socially Through the Lens of Abstract Thinking, Understanding Perspectives, Gestalt Thinking, and Humor
Series Name: Navigating Across School, Home, and Screen Landscapes using the ILAUGH Model
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this second part of a two-part series, we explore four critical parts of the ILAUGH Model of Social Cognition as a way to deconstruct and make sense of the relationship between the social and academic world. The social brain forms the foundation for how children, students, and clients interact, learn to write, comprehend others’ perspectives, use narrative language, participate in groups, and learn in classrooms or online. This course examines how abstract thinking, perspective-taking, executive functioning, and self-regulation impact one’s ability to engage in written expression, reading comprehension and working in groups. Learn practical strategies to teach social competencies.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Feb 2 - Mar 4
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Strategies for Adults with Subtle but Significant Social Emotional Learning Challenges
Key Topics: social emotional learning, executive functions, anxiety management
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Most of our mature adult clients have never received any type of socially oriented treatment in the past – yet they’re overwhelmed with frustration or anxiety due to a history of compelling social learning challenges that have impacted relationship development, both at work and in their personal lives. Some receive late diagnoses of ASD, and others may have mental health diagnoses, but few are aware of basic and advanced frameworks and strategies for them to better understand how the social world works to help them navigate more competently within it. This course is packed with practical and useful information!
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Feb 20 - Mar 23
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 1: Me in the Social World—It All Starts with Social Self-Awareness
Series Name: Social Detective, Superflex®, and Friends Take On Social Emotional Learning: Teaching the Concepts with Fidelity
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this first part of a two-part series, learn how to teach with fidelity the award-winning You are a Social Detective! and Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. We explain the critical scope and sequencing required to teach these materials and help your students, clients, and patients improve their social competencies for a lifetime. Learn how to modify this curriculum for use with older social learners.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Mar 4 - Apr 6
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 2: Using Social Competencies to Navigate in the Social World
Series Name: Social Detective, Superflex®, and Friends Take On Social Emotional Learning: Teaching the Concepts with Fidelity
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this second part of a two-part series, you will learn how to teach with fidelity the award-winning You are a Social Detective! and Superflex…A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum to boost social awareness and self-regulation. We continue to explore many different social thinking strategies for navigating in the social world. Learn how to teach Superflex in the mainstream classroom, in-person, or online. Discover the dos and don’ts when using Social Thinking® teaching materials.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Mar 5 - Apr 6
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 1: The Social World: Practical Vocabulary and Concepts for Teaching How It Works
Series Name: Social Thinking Vocabulary and Strategies
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. We all need practical social emotional learning tools for teaching social information. Part 1 of this two-part series introduces two core treatment frameworks, multiple tools, and practical strategies as part of the Social Thinking® Methodology’s concrete vocabulary. Discover social emotional learning strategies for teaching how the social world works to guide treatment planning.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Apr 16 - May 18
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 2: Strategies and Concepts for How to Navigate to Regulate in the Social World
Series Name: Social Thinking Vocabulary and Strategies
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Using concrete social emotional vocabulary and frameworks, we teach strategies for social learners to navigate (to regulate) in the social world. In this second half of this series, learn additional Social Thinking Vocabulary to make abstract social concepts more concrete. We describe treatment* examples for guiding children, students or clients to build social competencies in conversations, executive functions, self-awareness, self-regulation, perspective taking, and flexible thinking.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from Apr 17 - May 18
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 1: Assessing Social Competencies with Practical Assessment Tools and Tasks
Series Name: Assessing Social Competencies Using Social Thinking® Informal Dynamic Tasks
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. In this first part of a two-part series we delve into the social mind and how it functions with neurotypically developing people within the complex social world to better understand goals of assessment. Examine trends in how different types of social emotional learners process and respond to socially based information. Explore processes for engaging students in Social Thinking® Informal Dynamic Assessment (ST–IDA) tasks to guide understanding of individuals’ social emotional learning strengths and weaknesses.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from May 3 - Jun 3
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable
Part 2: Exploring Socially Based Executive Functions & Tips for Assessing Different Developmental Ages
Series Name: Assessing Social Competencies Using Social Thinking® Informal Dynamic Tasks
Please note that this course begins promptly at 9:00 am Pacific Time. This second part of a two-part series examines how executive functions are necessary for the development of social competencies. Using video case examples, two more fascinating and increasingly complex Social Thinking® Informal Dynamic Assessment tasks are reviewed to provide compelling additional information. Tips and other assessment tools are provided for assessing individuals of different developmental ages.
Register for 3.5 Hour Livestream Event with 30-day Replay Access from May 4 - Jun 3
3.5 hours toward CE credit, if applicable