Obstacles to Opportunities: An Inside View on Opening Doors Empowering Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders to Succeed!

Obstacles to Opportunities: An Inside View on Opening Doors Empowering Students with ASD’s to Succeed!

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OUTCOME OBJECTIVES

1. Develop greater understanding of what it is like to be an individual with autism
2. Recognize and successfully address common sensory issues that for students with autism
3. Learn effective educational strategies for social inclusion while addressing academics.
4. Create easy to implement, practical solutions for challenges teachers face
5. Educate students with autism in successful advocacy skills as part of an effective transition plan towards leading a fulfilling and productive life.

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION

1. Introduction and experiencing a bit of autism
2. Practical solutions for challenges facing students with autism
A. Identifying, understanding, and learning what to do about sensory issues
B. Developing accommodations promotion social and academic inclusion
C. Teaching those with autism the “Hidden Curriculum” of successful social interaction in school, home, and the community.
3. Successful navigation of transition to adulthood.
A. Educating the student on developing effective skills of self-advocacy
B. Preparing for fulfilling and productive employment
C. Relationships: From strangers and acquaintances to intimacy
4. Promoting a bright future for individuals with autism

Going against conventional wisdom, this presentation examines how deficits and challenges so pervasively attributed to autism can be reframed as strengths. Employing an autobiographical structure combined with experiences of others with autism, participants will come away with practical solutions for considering characteristics of autism as potential springboards to success in education from preschool to post graduate, employment, effective self-advocacy, meaningful engagement in the community as building blocks for leading a fulfilling and productive life.