Event has Ended – Implementing Social Thinking Concepts and Vocabulary: A Day to Develop Team Creativity

October 25, 2024   |   9:00am – 3:00pm CST

This course has 25 spots available. Please sign up early to reserve your spot! This is a live event only and will not be recorded.

Learn more than 20 Social Thinking strategies and three core treatment frameworks to guide students, clients, and patients to better attend, interpret, problem solve, and respond to social information. Help individuals 1) observe and respond to situations based on the context and determine the “expected” behaviors of each situation, 2) learn core Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts to encourage social-communicative competence, and 3) discover strategies for teaching self-regulation, executive functioning, emotional understanding, and theory of mind/perspective taking. Work in teams to develop lesson plans to implement new strategies in the home, clinic, or classroom the very next day.

Following this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe why the context or situation is essential for figuring out social expectations and related social skills.
2. Define at least five Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts.
3. Describe how Social Thinking Vocabulary concepts facilitate generalization across home and school settings.
4. List and describe two strategies for teaching self regulation and/ or the social emotional chain reaction.

Agenda:

900-10:00 Introduction to Social Thinking
10:00-10:15 break
10:15-11:45 More on social competency, Four Steps of Communication
11:45-12:15 lunch
12:15-1:45 Four Steps of Communication
1:45-2:00 Break
2:00-3:00 Self Regulation strategies

This training will have two 15 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch break.

This course meets the requirement for Professional Development hours towards your ASHA renewal since it is approved by TSHA! You can count these hours towards ASHA renewal when you submit your Compliance Form.