Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training (ASDCS) – 2nd Edition: Affirming Neurodiversity with Strengths- and Abilities-Based Interventions
A premier experience bringing you today’s most cutting-edge, strengths-based interventions to help your clients on the autism spectrum thrive!
Autism intervention continues to evolve.
We’re seeing a paradigm shift to one that embraces difference, takes the client’s lead, builds on strengths while supporting needs, and appreciates how the body and brain use behaviors to manage surroundings.
But keeping up with emerging evidence-based autism assessments and treatments can be time consuming and overwhelming, leaving you unsure of what steps to take next…
…that’s why we’re introducing the Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training (ASDCS) – 2nd Edition: Affirming Neurodiversity with Strengths- and Abilities-Based Interventions. Leading voices in the field will breakdown interventions and approaches that’ll help bring out your autistic clients’ unique skills and extraordinary potential to help them thrive!
Through the lens of lived experience, autism experts Temple Grandin, Stephen Shore, Judy Singer, Wenn Lawson, Kim Clairy, Sean Inderbitzen, and Emile Gouws, explain the importance of looking at autism through an autistic lens to address the many challenges autistic individuals often experience.
Each awe-inspiring session provides you with concrete neurodiversity-affirming interventions to work with your autistic clients’ unique needs, individual differences, and passions.
During this powerful online certification course, leading experts including Stephen Porges, Barry Prizant, Varleisha Lyons, Robert Naseef, Jeffrey Guenzel, and Michael Hannon—to name a few—will guide you through interventions that leverage relationships, trust, communication, acceptance, and the neuroception of safety.
From early intervention to transitioning to adulthood, you’ll walk away with dozens of transformational strengths-based interventions, strategies and approaches to support your clients regardless of age or developmental stage!
Here’s what you’ll get…
- 10 CE sessions
- 8 bonus CE sessions
- 3 bonus content sessions
Here’s a peek at some of the cutting-edge interventions and approaches:
Awareness, Acceptance, Appreciation, and Action Framework: Stephen Shore, EdD, flips autism intervention on its head and forever changes the way you view and work with autistic clients.
Polyvagal Theory: Esteemed Stephen Porges, PhD, teaches the best strategies for down-regulating threat and defensive reactions by looking at the child’s (and parent’s) nervous systems.
Polyvagal Informed Framework of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Building on the work of Stephen Porges, PhD, Sean Inderbitzen, DSW, LCSW, MINT, provides a lens that’s modifiable resulting in increased creativity, openness, curiosity, cognitive flexibility, and social engagement!
Dissecting Brain-Gut to Address Sensorimotor Intervention: Varleisha Lyons, PhD, OTD, OTR/L, ASDCS, teaches you how to properly select interventions to help autistic children with self-regulation, emotional regulation, and sensorimotor skills.
Autism Assessment: Wenn Lawson, PhD, teaches you to skillfully interlace a neurodiversity-affirming lens with DSM-5™ diagnostic criteria as well as how to separate autism from other co-occurring mental health issues in adults.
Autism, LGBTQIA+, and the Intersectionality of Gender and Sexuality: Wenn Lawson, PhD, guides you through the implications for gender and sexual development, diagnosis, as well as how to support this diverse population.
Racial Disparities and Neurodivergence in Autism: From racial disparities in access to timely and quality care to the influences of those disparities, Drs. Robert Naseef and Michael Hannon empower you to design strategies for more equitable and just engagement with autistic clients and their families.
Plus, you’ll get essential updates to some of the most important and trending topics in autism assessment and treatment, including how to help your clients:
- Prevent the need for meltdowns and emotional outbursts
- Develop social skills to successfully navigate social interactions
- Build a foundation of safety and trust
- Build on their strengths through client-centered approaches
- Recognize side effects of psychotropic medication that can mimic or cause behavioral issues
- Successfully transition through middle school, high school, and beyond
- And so much more!
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