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AEPConnections,[email protected](920)-224-4794–phone(920)482-1270-fax
August5,2019Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC-SLP
Learn it Today, Use it Tomorrow! Effective Interventions for Improving Executive Function Skills in Children/Students (with Autism, ADHD, PDD-nos, Anxiety, Attention Deficits, HFA, Disorganized Kids & more)
What is executive functioning? Executive functioning is an individual's ability to organize thoughts and activities, prioritize tasks, manage time efficiently, and make decisions. In this full-day training you will learn many strategies and techniques that you can bring to your classroom or practice that you can utilize immediately with your student/child with executive functioning deficits.
To be successful, children need to be aware of task demands and set goals, they must then access forethought and hindsight to think in an organized way and to sustain their focus on the relevant features of the task at hand. Students must learn to manage both expected and unexpected changes in plans, routines, rules and novel situations. This practical strategies seminar will provide the strategies that you need to teach this to your students!
This is a practical strategies seminar! During this full-day training you will learn dozens of functional, ready-to-use strategies for teaching students how to develop their executive function skills. You will learn how to instruct students to develop a “memory for the future”, to devise plans to achieve their goal, to use self-talk, to self-initiate, to transition to the next task of higher priority and to control their impulses and emotions to successfully complete a task. Next you will learn how to improve a student’s awareness skills so that he/she can “read a room” then “stop, think and create” an appropriate action plan and infer possible outcomes.
It is imperative for a student to see and sense the passage of time, accurately estimate how long tasks will take, change or maintain their pace, and carry out routines and tasks within allotted time frames, you will learn many strategies so that you can help to prepare your students for the future. You will learn methods to improve a student’s ability to cognitively shift and to be flexible in processing and accessing information. Sarah will instruct you on how to support students in closing the homework circle: new techniques for teaching students to record, bring home, complete and return assignments in a timely manner. Make one tiny tweak to your class and treatment instruction and learn how to use the Get Ready * Do*Done Model to turn the core curriculum and lesson/treatment plans into powerful tools to teach students executive control skills. Fresh approaches to help students develop automaticity for class routines and transitions.
Regular-education teachers (as well as special education teachers) will find the information presented invaluable. Strategies presented will allow regular education teachers to utilize approaches within their own classroom. Learner Objectives:
• State the functional working definition of what is meant by the term “executive function skills”as it pertains to therapeutic interventions.
• Define how situational awareness, self talk, forethought and episodic memory are the foundational skills for successful task execution.
• Develop an intervention program to foster a student’s ability to form more independent executive function skills by describing therapeutic activities to improve: *Situational awareness and forethought *Task planning, task initiation and transition within and between tasks *Internal self-talk for initiating tasks *Active self-management of the factors related to the passage of time *Organized thinking and speed of processing *Student management of materials
• Describe at least 4 systematic methods that can be used in the classroom in conjunction with the core curriculum to enhance self- regulation, information processing and task completion.
• State 4 strategies students can use to improve their ability to record homework, bring home assignments, create a homework space, complete and turn in assignments.
• Outline how the SLP can collaborate with parents, teachers and other professionals to implement an executive function based treatment program both in and outside of the classroom.
LearnItToday,UseItTomorrow!Effective Interventions for Improving Executive Function Skills for Children/Students
(IncludingAutism,ADHD,PDD-nos,Anxiety,AttentionDeficits,HFA,DisorganizedKids&more)August5,2019
Appleton,Wisconsin
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Sarah Ward, M.S., CCC-SLP - has over 19 years of experience in diagnostic evaluations, treatment and case management of children, adolescents and adults with language learning disabilities, nonverbal learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, executive dysfunction, Asperger’s disorders and social pragmatics. Her particular specialty is in the assessment and treatment of executive function deficits. Ms. Ward holds a faculty appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions where she provides instruction to graduate level students in the assessment and treatment of individuals with traumatic brain injury and other cognitive communication disorders. A popular speaker, Sarah regularly presents nationally and internationally on the topic of executive functions to a variety of professional and parent organizations, school and lay groups. She has presented to and consulted with over 450 public and private schools in Massachusetts and across the United States. Awards received include the MGH Expertise in Clinical Practice Award, the Distinguished Alumni Award and the Faculty in Excellence Award from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (2002, 2011). Disclosure:Sarah Ward’s company Cognitive Connections produces and sells products on her website, which are tools, that support students in developing an internal sense of time. Some of these materials will be referenced in the presentation. Many of these materials can also be purchased at local stores. The website also sells treatment programs and games to develop independent executive function skills. In addition, the website offers many free resources and references. Sarah Ward receives a speaker’s fee for presentations. There are no nonfinancial relationships to disclose.
Lunch Option: A Subway box lunch is available for $10. Box lunch will include: a Turkey, Ham, or Roast Beef sandwich, a bag of chips, cookie, & a soda or water or a Salad (lettuce/spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, olives and choice of dressing) & a soda or water. Box lunch is only available for pre-order. All orders must be made prior to July 26, 2019. **Please choose what type of sandwich you would prefer when ordering**
Pre-Order Books: Books will be available for pre-order. There will be a limited number of recommended books available at the conference for purchase. We recommend pre-ordering books to guarantee availability. Pre-order books are listed on the registration page.
Who Should Attend? Special Education teachers, Speech and Language pathologists, OT’s, regular education teachers, administrators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, TAG teachers, PT’s, principals, parents, and anyone who works with someone on the autism spectrum, ADHD, bi-polar, anyone with attention or focus issues, or other learning disabilities or behavioral issues. This conference is open to anyone who wishes to attend (NOT only for AASD staff). Please contact AEP Connections with questions.
Accessibility Accommodations Policy: If you require special assistance please contact the registrar at AEP Connections, LLC to inform them of your special needs by emailing: [email protected]
ConferenceLocation:
AppletonNorthHighSchool5000BallardRoadAppleton,WI54913
Courtesy blocks of rooms are available at:
Cambria Suites 3940 N Gateway Dr., Appleton, WI 54913 (920) 733-0101 for $109 plus tax. http://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/HJ5PM4
Room rates are good until July 10, 2019. **Please refer to AEP Connections when booking for discounted rate.
Daily Schedule: 7:30 – 8:00 AM - Registration8:00 – 9:30 AM – Executive function (EF) skills defined, EF dysfunction and the development of EF skills9:30–9:45 AM- Break9:45 – 11:30 AM – Treatment interventions to improve forethought and self-talk, task initiation, self-regulation, making timely transitions and following routines11:30 – 12:30 PM - Lunch-on your own12:30 – 2:00 PM – Strategies to increase time management of daily and hourly time and long term projects. Teaching and planning skills: *Get Ready *Do * Done model for classroom2:00 – 2:15 PM - Break2:15 – 3:30 PM –Teaching and planning skills: homework assignments and interventions
**Lunchis“onyourown”althoughboxlunchesareavailableforpre-orderuntilJuly26,2019.**
AEPConnections,LLCwouldliketothanktheAppletonAreaSchoolDistrictfortheuseofAppletonNorthHighSchoolauditorium,Audio/Visual, scholarshipsprovided,andforallofthecopiesmadeforhandouts.
ProfessionalDevelopmentOffered
ProfessionalDevelopment:
1) Graduate Credits – 1-2 credits offered through Concorida University. Cost is $238/credit. Registration and payment for the credits will occur at the conference. (**working on accreditation and syllabus- syllabus will be posted when completed)
2) Certificate of Attendance for 6 clock hours. 3) Continuing Education Contact Hours/ Professional Development Hours – 6 hours 4) ASWB - AEP Connection, LLC, #1332, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work
Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. AEP Connections, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 1/27/19-1/27/20. Social workers completing this course receive 6 continuing education credits.
5) NBCC - AEP Connections, LLC is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.” ACEP Number: 6680
6) IBCCES - International Board of Credentialing and Continuing Education Standards. Provider# CE143465 7) ASHA – This program is offered for .6 ASHA ceu’s (Intermediate level; professional area). Full attendance and a
completed evaluation required for satisfactory completion of ASHA ceu’s. 8) AOTA - Approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association for 6 contact
hours (0.6 CEUs) for one day. Intermediate level. Occupational Therapy Process: Assessment, Intervention. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA. AOTA provider#9435
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Registration
v RegistrationPaymentforAugust5,2019 $____________________
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v BoxLunch-CircleChoice:(Turkey,Ham,RoastBeef,orSalad)$____________________($10-sandwhich,chips,cookie,orSalad&soda/water)*MustPre-Orderby7/26/19*
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RECOMMENDED BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER – Circle Choices – Available for pick-up at the conference.
Pre-Order Books Available:
*70 Play Activities for Better Thinking, Self-Regulation, Learning & Behavior (Lynne Kenney) - $27.00
*Self-Driven Child (William Stixrud) – $28.00
*Smart But Scattered (Dawson & Guare) - $18.00
***CONFERENCESPECIAL–ALLRECOMMENDEDBOOKS***$70.00***
**EARLY BIRD RATE** (Until May 25 2018)
$55
REGULAR RATE (After May 25, 2018)
$65
**Please Circle -Book Choices. Books will be available for pick up
at the conference.**