PEDIATRIC FOCUS: APPROACHES TO INCREASING CAPABILITIES OF INDIVIDUALS WITH ATTENTION, AUDITORY PROCESSING AND ASPERGERS SYNDR

Course overview

Pediatric Focus: Approaches to Increasing Capabilities of Individuals with Attention, Auditory Processing and Aspergers Syndrome/Autism Spectrum Disorder This course will examine the role of some successful approaches to engage and support individuals who struggle to tune in to and process essential auditory and/or visual information and at the same time also tune out background or non-essential details. We will highlight means available to professionals to work with clients who have difficulty in self-regulating attention. There is some new thinking by people with Autism Spectrum Disorder/Aspergers Syndrome issues that helps them understand and manage their underlying sensory, executive thinking and social communication challenges. As clinicians, we need to have this insight. Finally, we will explore a program to increase self-motivation in our clients and ourselves. Dr. Belk may be joined by the developers of some of these programs to co-present. Objective Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: Describe initial presenting concerns of individuals later diagnosed with attention, auditory processing and co-existing deficits Identify major deficits in attention regulation and auditory processing particularly in the Asperger's Syndrome/Autism Spectrum Disorder population Describe various therapeutic approaches for attention regulation and auditory processing disorders identified in the Asperger's Syndrome/Autism Spectrum Disorder population