Griffin Doyle – Early Intervention for Autism

You will be able to see autism through a developmental lens and learn new strategies that will help you close the gap between what your know and how to start early treatment.

 Griffin Doyle – Early Intervention for Autism

The Developmental Perspective

• Exemples of core emotional capabilities
• Human experience and inherited neurobiology
• Infant/Child looking for security, information, and meaning
• Role of parent-Child bond
• All developmental domains have interdependence
• What are the characteristics that are missing from ASD?-Do you like this behavior?

Assessment and easy-To-Miss “Red Flags”

• Atypical infant behavior at its earliest
• DSM-5® criteria
• Formal evaluations
• Play/activity with your child
• Qualitative and informal traits
• Parent-Child (P).-C) Interaction
• Differentiating SID or Expressive-Receptive LD after ASD
• Current research findings

Developmental Evaluation

• Rate six core functional steps
• Regulation and shared attention
• Warm engagement
• Intention and purposeful, mutual interaction
• Problem solving and continuous interaction-Problem solving
• Symbolic play and language
• Representational thinking
• Communication and play/activity level
• Quality of P-C emotional bond
• Joint Attention (JA), Imitation
• Atypical Sensory-Motor Systems
• Patterns and triggers for ASD-Like behavior

INTERVENTION TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES
Encourage shared play and pleasure

• Establish and maintain mutual engagement
• Track child’s interests at his/her functional level
• Follow child’s back–Keep moving
• Have Fun! Have Fun! for The “Gleam” Contact lenses and eye contact
• Gently join yourself-absorbing action
• Invite/model further exploration
• Inject needed “affect”
• Reciprocity/communication
• Intentionality
• Rigidity/transitions

Treat Difficult Behaviours

• Security seeking and dysregulation
• Meltdowns
• Seeking/avoiding
• Stimming/self-absorbed
• Perseverance
• Physical proximity/holding
• Probleme with eating/sleeping

Major Treatment Approaches

• Relationship-based, ABA, mixed programs
• Application of Developmental (DIR), Modell
• Dyadic treatment

Framework for Developmental Treatment

• Example: Class treatment plan
• Follow developmental evaluation
• Make sure you have the right sensory equipment-motor environment
• Shoot for Child succeeds at his developmental level
• Follow and join child’s interests

Encourage parents and families to take control

• Help them deal with the ASD diagnosis
• Strategies for Depression, grief, stress, anxiety, and anxiety
• Coach/strengthen the parent-Example of a child-parent relationship
• Understand their child’s behavior and motives
• Team work/referral process
• Coordination with school placement

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Early detection is critical to effective autism treatment… every moment counts.

But how old can you identify autism and start treatment? Do you know how to begin treatment with very young children. Autism expert, Griffin DoyleDr. Judith Sullivan, PhD will help you find the answers to all these questions and many more!

You’ll learn new strategies and techniques by looking at autism from a developmental perspective. This will allow you to effectively bridge the gap between your knowledge and how to begin early treatment.

Through case examples, videos and lively class discussion you’ll be guided on how you can Identify key indicators of autism  Children as young as nine months old can begin treatment. You’ll get specific instruction so you can effectively intervene, prevent regression and promote developmental gains in young children – even prior to formal diagnosis.

In this recording, you’ll learn the necessary skills you need to:

• Ask “What is missing?” – Subtle differences between ASD and neurotypical ASD-As children
• Find the easy-To-Do not miss ‘red flags’ ASD in toddlers, infants, and young kids
• Create a basic working profile for sensory-motor processing deficiencies
• Customize treatment plans for each child’s unique challenges
• Positively impact clinical outcomes through evidence-Therapeutic strategies that are based on the theory of maladaptive behavior to reduce and/or replace them.

Don’t let a wait and see approach cost kids a better future. When brain plasticity is more prominent and the impact of intervention are greater, it is important to intervene early.