Outpatient Therapy with Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults on the Autism Spectrum



Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Crestview Country Club
Agawam, MA
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

AGENDA
 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Registration and Coffee 
   
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and how individuals                on the spectrum process the world
Motivation 
Advocating
How is therapy different?
   
10:15AM -10:30 AM Break & Refreshments
 
   
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Why are they here?
Confidentiality
Diagnosis/sharing results
Types of therapy
   
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch at the Crestview and included with your registration
   
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Strategies to use in therapy
Establishing boundaries
Teaching decision making
   
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM  Break and Refreshments                
   
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Sensory system/sensory diet
Breaking the cycle
Overload
Teaching them to define emotions
Speaking with individual
Visual systems
   
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Questions and Answers