How Can Children With Autism Become Less Object-Oriented And More People-Oriented? Strategies To Develop A Social Priority

Course overview

Does your child have a primary focus and priority on objects rather than people? Does your child have difficulty "looking up and around" at the available social cues and information in the room to understand how and when to socially participate with others? Does your child see others as interference with their object-oriented learning preferences? Does your child have difficulty seeing others as valuable sources of social information? These questions characterize and reflect the learning style challenges that many children with autism face in their journey to become good social partners with both adults and peers. This course, based on the Learning Style Profile (LSP), provides insight to these learning style challenges, and also specific goals and strategies for SLPs to use at home, school, or therapy to help move children with autism from object-oriented to people-oriented learners. These empirically based, practical and common-sense strategies provide a clear intervention roadmap and direction to building a solid people-oriented foundation and learning style for children's acquisition of advanced social and communication skills. This course is particularly relevant for children with autism who struggle with how to independently learn social skills from others without being directly taught or prompted by adults.