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7033 Evidence Based Practices in Communication for ASD [CRC Session]


Friday, July 25, 2014: 2:30 PM-3:45 PM
210 (Indiana Convention Center)
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Communication is a primary deficit in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Practitioners need expertise in communication strategies that promote skill acquisition and decrease challenging behaviors that interfere with learning. This session will demonstrate evidence based practices used to treat communication deficits in ASD and when it’s best to implement the practices. Communication deficits are a primary means of identifying and diagnosing autism.  Communication in autism involves both delay and deviance. Deficits are not only in language but more fundatmentally in communication in any modality. Practitioners who treat communication disorders in individuals with autism must have expertise in instructional strategies that promote language skill acquistion and decrease challenging behaviors that interfere with learning.  This session will compare how normal language development appears versus how autism affects communication and language.  In this session, the evidence based practices of functional communication training, natualistic language intervention, PECS, pivotal respons training, peer mediated instruction and intervention, voice output communication aid (VOCA), video modeling and social narratives will be briefly described and demonstrated how they can be utilized for treating  various communication deficits.

Learning Objectives:

  • Attendees would be able to identify how autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects communication and language.
  • Attendees will be able to identify eight evidence based practices used to treat communication deficits in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
  • Attendees would be able to describe clinical techniques to use when an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a communication deficit.

Content Area: Communication

Presenter:

Kristie Lofland, M.S.
Educational Consultant
Indiana Resource Center for Autism

Lofland has worked in the field of special education for over 30 years in both educational and clinical settings as a speech language pathologist, audiologist, Autism consultant and special education administrator. Ms. Lofland currently is an Educational Consultant for the Indiana Resource Center for Autism.