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8422 TREATMENT APPROACHES FOR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE SOCIAL MIND [CEU Session] (Additional Registration Required)


Wednesday, July 8, 2015: 12:30 PM-4:30 PM
Room Number: 205 (Colorado Convention Center)
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Diagnostic labels fail to pinpoint a person’s social learning needs. Nor do they help us to understand how a social skills problem can also impact one’s ability to engage in learning many socially based academic concepts such as written expression and reading comprehension of literature. Using a lot of video clips, we will help you to pinpoint your student’s social learning challenges in order to develop more clearly articulated treatment planning as we introduce the Social Thinking-Social Communication Profile. We answer the question: What are a person’s core social learning challenges and how can we help? 

Diagnostic labels fail to pinpoint a person’s social learning needs. Nor do they help us to understand how a social skills problem can also impact one’s ability to engage in learning many socially based academic concepts such as written expression and reading comprehension of literature.  Using a lot of video clips,  we will help you to pinpoint your student’s social learning challenges in order to develop more clearly articulated treatment planning as we introduce the Social Thinking-Social Communication Profile.

Break times are as follows: 1:45 pm to 2:00 pm and 3:15 pm to 3:30 pm

Learning Objectives:

  • Define perspective taking/theory of mind and its impact on reading comprehension, written expression, conversation, etc.
  • Describe at least three different levels of social learning challenges and how they impact a person in school, at home, and into the adult years.
  • Describe how social observation impacts language interpretation.
Presenter:

Michelle Garcia Winner, M.A., CCC-SLP
Founder
SOCIAL THINKING : Think Social Publishing, Inc

Michelle Garcia Winner specializes in working with students with social cognitive deficits. She runs a clinic; has authored numerous books, speaks internationally and developed the term “Social Thinking” along with the related treatment approach. She was honored with a Congressional Special Recognition Award in 2008.

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