This is a bank of professional development offered in this content area by the project. Please note not all sessions are offered every year.
| Title | Description | Date/Registration |
| Jill Kuzma – Socially-Savvy and Emotionally Equipped: 1-day workshop | Participants in this workshop will learn about social/emotional “units” of study with lessons centered around developing social perspective taking skills, increasing awareness of emotions and associated non-verbal cues, controlling impulsive behaviors, and expanding the social awareness skills necessary for reciprocal friendships and social interactions. These units of study incorporate lesson activities utilizing children’s literature, a variety of visual learning tools, role-play activities, interactive games, internet resources, and other technology tools. | Not offered in 2012-2013 |
| Jill Kuzma – Strategies for Assessment & Intervention for Students with Social Pragmatic Needs: 1-day workshop | Participants explore the range of areas potentially involved for an individual with Social Pragmatic deficits on the autism spectrum. Educators will acquire knowledge of social pragmatic need areas within the contexts of: conversation skills, social thinking ability, perspective taking, emotion awareness and management, problem solving, and non-verbal communication interpretation and expression. Assessment considerations and strategies will be explored, with a particular focus on unique methods of tailoring language samples, observations, and informal measures to pinpoint social pragmatic strengths and need areas in students. Clinicians will increase their personal repertoire of specific strategies for intervention in the Social Pragmatic areas listed above. Finally, IEP goal and objective ideas are provided in all areas. |
Not offered in 2012-2013 |
| Jill Kuzma – Behind the Scenes Preparation to Teach Social-Emotional Groups: 1-day workshop | Participants in this workshop will learn about social/emotional “units” of study with lessons centered on developing social perspective taking skills, increasing awareness of emotions and associated non-verbal cues, controlling impulsive behaviors, and expanding the social awareness skills necessary for reciprocal friendships and social interactions. These units of study incorporate lesson activities utilizing children’s literature, a variety of visual learning tools, role-play activities, interactive games, internet resources, and other technology tools. This workshop also includes a discussion of how social cognitive deficits impact students socially, emotionally, behaviorally, academic and in the area of organization. |
Not offered in 2012-2013 |
| Social Skills at Home Parent Workshop: 3-hour workshop | A child’s learning does not stop at the end of the school day. To better ensure the success of participating students, the parent workshop is designed to give parents of students in social skills groups additional tools to help reinforce the concepts their children learn at school in the home setting. Presenters provide parents an overview of the lessons provided to their children, the vocabulary used in the groups, and several activities that can be done at home to allow their children to practice their social thinking skills. | Not offered in 2012-2013 |
