AAPC Sponsored Conferences

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AAPC Sponsored Conferences:

Grand Forks

August 10-11 , 2009

Learn How to Document and Incorporate Research-Based Interventions into Your Students' Daily Schedules!

The Autism Asperger Publishing Company invites you to attend …

Social and Communication Interventions for Students with Moderate to Severe Autism
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Grand Forks, North Dakota
August 10-11, 2009
Alerus Center

Two-Day Conference
Featured Speaker: Dr, Kathleen A. Quill

CONFERENCE LOCATION
Alerus Center
1200 S. 42nd St.
Grand Forks, ND 58201
(701) 792-1200 - General Office

About the Speaker
Dr.Kathleen A.Quill
Dr.Kathleen Quill is respected internationally as an author, lecturer,and consultant on educating children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).Quill has conducted trainings in over 20 countries, given the keynote address for 10 international organizations, and presented at over 100 conferences. She promotes integrating behavioral and developmentalmethods. She conducts applied research on language, communication,and social intervention and has taught at University of Massachusetts, Lesley College, and Emerson College. She has authored numerous publications, is the editor of the popular book Teaching children with autism: Strategies to enhance communication and socialization, author of the bestseller DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY: Social and communication intervention for children with autism, author of e-learning courses on www.autisminternetmodules.com, and was a major contributor to the development of AutismPro, an online software tool that provides comprehensive information and guidance about the full range of evidencebased educational interventions for young children with ASD (www.autismpro.com).

Quill is on the editorial board for the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, the advisory board for the Autism Spectrum Quarterly, the board of directors for Autism Asperger Publishing Company, and is the director of the professional advisory board of AutismPro.

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Order
DO-WATCH-LISTEN-SAY
and/or Teaching Children with Autism: Strategies to Enhance Communication and Socialization
at the time of registration (order below) and receive a 15% discount!
**Books will be available for pick-up at conference check-in.

LEARN AND EARN
Earn one Continuing Professional Development Credit from the University of North Dakota (additional $50 fee).Find out how to enroll for credit in the confirmation letter you receive after registering for the conference.

ASHA Continuing Education Units
Autism Asperger Publishing Company is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for 1.2 CEUs (intermediate level; professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedures.

Conference Schedule

Social and Communication Interventions for Students with Moderate to Severe Autism

Dr.Kathleen A. Quill
The ultimate success of an education and treatment program for students with autism spectrum disorders is one that maximizes the development of their social-communication skills.This conference addresses the critical role of the speech-language pathologist (SLP), special educator, general educator, parent, and the entire educational team in the treatment of these skills.

Topics include:

1. The role of the SLP and other team members in developing and increasing communication in school, home, and community.
2. Informal communication and augmentative and alternate communication assessment.
3. Planning interventions for non-speaking students and those with emerging speech.
4. Key instructional strategies to enhance emergent speech and functional communication.

The workshop includes lecture, video, and discussion.The handout packet includes tools and tips that educational professionals and families can use immediately.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Participants will learn the reason to use a transdisciplinary model of intervention for students with significant communication challenges.
• Participants will learn to complete and translate the data from the Do-Watch-Listen-Say (DWLS) Communication Assessment tool into specific instructional objectives.
• Participants will learn how to select communication supports to facilitate a student’s acquisition of target communication objectives in school,home, and community.
• Participants will learn how to support team and family members’ability to implement target communication objectives across environments.
• Participants will learn how to use behavioral strategies in natural settings to promote functional communication.

Hotel Information:
For the special conference room rate of $89/night at the Canad Inns (attached to the Alerus Center) please call 701-772-8404 by July 10, 2009 to make your reservation. Reference AAPC Autism Conference reservation number 164851 to receive the special room rate.

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