On March 7, 2014, Cherry Gulch will be hosting Dr. Pam Crooke from the Social Thinking group (
www.socialthinking.com).
To reserve a space please send a payment of $129 payable to Cherry Gulch to my attention to: PO Box 678, Emmett, Idaho 83617 and send me a email letting me know who will be attending.
Title: Thinking About Thinking: Social Thinking® Assessment And Practical Strategies For The Academic And Social Day
This customized workshop blend is designed to help professionals gain a better understanding of the inner minds of individuals with social learning challenges. The Informal Social Thinking -Dynamic Assessment will be introduced as a guide for developing differentiated lessons for those individuals with social learning issues.. In addition, participants will learn about START, Social Thinking- Assessment Response Training - which is a way in which Social Thinking can be blended into the RTI/PBIS model.
Video clips will be used to show how informal assessment tasks can demonstrate ways in which all of us (diagnosticians, parents, paraprofessionals, treatment clinicians, etc.) can work more effectively with this population. There will be an emphasis throughout the day about how to infuse newly developed social thinking concepts and develop lessons alongside the Common Core Standards (CCSs). Finally, we will discuss how to measure progress and change related to the lessons and strategies discussed throughout the day. This is a day loaded with practical assessment and treatment strategies.
Objectives for Day:
- Participants will be able to describe the core components of the Social Thinking -Dynamic Assessment
- Participants will be able to describe how to use Social Behavior Maps
- Participants will be able to describe the Four Steps of Communication as a primary component to assessing and treating social skill challenges.
- Participants will be able to define at least three different stages of making friends and how to teach students to advance from one stage to the next.
Who Should Attend?
Teachers; speech-language pathologists; therapists (MFTs; LCSWs; OTs; PTs); autism specialists; clinical, educational, developmental psychologists; clinical and educational administrators; physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, particularly those in developmental practice; social workers; paraprofessionals; parents and other family members and caregivers of students with social thinking challenges.
Populations to be discussed:
School-age students who have social and communication difficulties, including but not limited to those related to ASD (may have a diagnosis of high-functioning autism, PDD-NOS, Asperger Syndrome, NLD, ADHD, Social-Communiation Disorder and undiagnosed challenges). Information presented concentrates on students with near normal to far above normal verbal intelligence (verbal IQs above 70).
Speaker
Dr. Pamela Crooke is a speech-language pathologist and senior therapist at the Social Thinking Center in San Jose, CA. She has an active caseload of children, teens and adults and is the co-author (with Michelle Garcia Winner) of four award-winning books related to Social Thinking. She has served on the clinical faculty of three universities, worked in the Arizona publics schools for 15 years and published a study on the effectiveness of using social thinking vocabulary in the schools. She speaks on the topic of Social Thinking on both a national and international level.
Location:
We have selected the Hilton Garden Inn in Eagle, Idaho as our meeting location. The below link will allow reservations for those of you who are traveling to attend. They are offering a discount to a
block of rooms.
Agenda:
Friday March 7th:
9:00AM
Levels of the Social Mind
Social-Thinking Social Communication Profile
Informal Social Thinking- Dynamic Assessment
RTI/PBIS/START
Social Thinking - Social Learning Tree
12:00PM
Lunch Break
1:00PM
Developing lessons based on level of the Social Mind
Strategies for Concrete/Literal Learners
Strategies for Nuance Challenges Learners
Rubrics and Measurement