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Digital Seminar

Help Autistic Clients Build Strengths, Ease Frustration, & Engage with the World: Techniques to Improve Cognitive Development, Early Language Development, Anxiety, & Behavior


Speaker:
Robert Bernstein, MA
Duration:
1 Hour 33 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Apr 22, 2022
Product Code:
POS058885


Description

Watch autism expert and author, Robert J. Bernstein, MA, as he teaches you how to skillfully use cognitive/developmental approaches to significantly improve cognitive development, early language development, anxiety, and behavior in autistic children, adolescents, and young adults (0-24 years old). Through recorded client sessions and case examples, Bernstein will guide you through how and why significant change occurs when using cognitive/developmental approaches. You’ll learn techniques to assess a child’s strengths and weaknesses in thinking and organizing, developing flexibility, sequential thinking, verbal expression, problem solving, and much more!


In this session you'll learn how to:

  • Elicit language that comes from within the child
  • Connect during times of opposition or no engagement
  • Reduce anxiety in the classroom environment
  • Use the natural world to embrace the children’s nature
  • Foster independence for young adults

You’ll observe how the behavioral approach is beneficial and how the cognitive/developmental approach can greatly enhance autistic client's engagement with the world!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Full attendance at this live activity qualifies for 1.5 contact hours.

 



Handouts

Speaker

Robert Bernstein, MA's Profile

Robert Bernstein, MA Related seminars and products


Robert J. Bernstein has devoted his career to improving the lives of children, teenagers, and adults with autism spectrum disorders. He developed his cognitive-based approach over more than thirty years of in-depth one-on-one work with clients ranging from nonverbal toddlers to high-functioning adults.

He has consulted for the pediatric neurology department at Bronx Lebanon Hospital and the medical clinic Pediatrics 2000 in New York City, is an educational consultant to the National Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies and has provided expert testimony at hearings on behalf of young people on the autism spectrum.

He conducts monthly international workshops for the United States Autism Association and Montclair State University, speaks at international conferences such as the India Inclusion Summit, conducts college seminars and leads support groups for families of persons with autism spectrum disorders. He appears regularly on WVOX radio in New Rochelle, NY, and has his own “Uniquely Normal – a Rob Bernstein Podcast.” In 2012, he founded the Table Tennis Therapy Program for Aspergers Individuals in Pleasantville, New York, the first program of its kind. He’s a Board Member of ARC and the USAA.

Rob has a child and a brother on the autism spectrum, who are both highlighted, along with 27 case stories, in his recent award-winning book, Uniquely Normal: Tapping the Reservoir of Normalcy to Treat Autism. The foreword is written by Temple Grandin.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Robert Bernstein maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Manhattanville College, the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and the Bronx Lebanon Hospital. He is the co-founder of WILS Westchester Institute for Learning Services. Robert Bernstein receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Robert Bernstein is a columnist in Autism Advocate Parent Magazine and is a council member for Exceptional Children. He is a member of the Board member of ARC.


Additional Info

Program Information

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Objectives

  1. Identify cognitive developmental techniques to limit disruptive behavior to increase social participation through language development.
  2. Formulate specific intervention activities that provide the just right challenge to enhance occupational performance for an autistic child or adolescent through effective assessment of language abilities.
  3. Apply immediate intervention strategies to address social anxiety symptoms in autistic children to promote effective communication within occupational participation.
  4. Distinguish strengths-based and client-centered approaches through a cognitive developmental lens to promote social participation and friendship for autistic children.

Outline

  • Cognitive/Developmental Approaches for:
    • Cognitive development
    • Early language development
    • Anxiety
    • Behavior
  • Assessment Techniques for Strengths and Weaknesses in:
    • Thinking about cause and effect
    • Self-correction; big and small
    • Solving a problem together; planning; sequential thinking; expressing choices
    • Organizing thinking; verbal self-direction; verbal expression
    • Use movement to elicit and organize language
    • Therapeutic car ride
    • Accepting another person’s feelings and differences
    • Overcoming perseveration
    • Taking turns
    • Teaching flexibility to highly intelligent children and young adults
  • Apply Cognitive/Developmental Techniques to:
    • Elicit language that comes from within the child
    • Connect during times of opposition or no engagement
    • Reduce anxiety in the classroom environment
    • Use the natural world to embrace the children’s nature as well as enhance success
    • Foster independence for young adults

Target Audience

  • Addiction Counselors
  • Counselors
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Psychologists
  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Social Workers
  • Teachers/School-Based Personnel
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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