Friday, October 25 · 8:30am - 2:30pm PDT

Unlock Potential - Strategies for Success with Your Autistic Students

Online Conference for Educational Assistants

Join us online for a professional development event for Education Assistants. We are happy to offer a comprehensive event with a world-renowned Keynote speaker and a choice of informative break-out sessions.

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Supporting Students with Autism: YOU can make a difference

Keynote address by Pat Mirenda, Ph.D., BCBA-D

Pat Mirenda, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she was also the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA). She taught graduate and undergraduate courses at UBC from 1994-2020 on topics that include augmentative communication, autism spectrum disorder, inclusive education, applied behaviour analysis, and positive behaviour support. She has published over 200 research articles, books, and chapters and presents frequently at international, national, and regional conferences. Since retiring from UBC at the end of 2020, she has worked closely with the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth and has acted as Chair of the BC Disability Collaborative.

Friday, October 25 · 8:30am - 2:30pm PDT

Choose Between 4 Breakout Rooms:

Behaviour Intervention Training

Empowering Learners with PDA

Creating a Social-Emotional Support System

Running Structured Social Skills Groups

Introduction to Behaviour Intervention Training: Two Concurrent Sessions

What You Will Learn:

DTT-ABC’s
Reinforcement Schedules
Token Economies
Functions of Behaviour
Antecedent and Consequence Strategies
Data Collection

Presented By:

Leanne Schiedel

M.Sc., BCBA

Fay Yen

M.Sc., BCBA

Presented By:

Michelle Karren

M.Sc., BCBA

Empowering Learners with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)

What You Will Learn:

Developing supportive language that can be used to reduce pressure and fosters collaboration with learners.
Practice building flexibility into examples of classroom routines and interactions.
Breaking down tasks into smaller, manageable steps that promote student success.
Adapting teaching methods to better align with the needs of PDA learners.

Soft Skills: Creating a Social-Emotional Support System for Students with Unique Needs

What You Will Learn:

Creating ways to focus on a student's ability to communicate their needs as in advocacy and having a voice: as in asking for assent.

Creating daily ways to increase the ability for a student to feel a part of the classroom: ensuring the inclusion fits the child’s needs (it is not a one-size-fits-all)

How to support all the children in the classroom during all parts of the day (which includes structured and unstructured times: class and lunch/recess)

Language means A LOT: how to engage in a communicative manner that shows and shapes a child’s way to communicate to you, and each other. TEACH from modelling and not expectations.

Remembering that SEL is all day: it is not doing 15 minutes of ‘yoga in the morning’ It is a way of creating a positive and focused day towards emotional success that is long living.

How to support to others that may need a clear definition of what YOU are doing.

Presented By:

Bohdanna Popwycz

M.Ed BCBA

Presented By:

Megan Howarth

BA, BCaBA

Lunch Bunch: A Guide to Running Structured Social Skills Groups

What You Will Learn:

How to create and implement a structured social skills group within the school setting
Understand the benefits and challenges of running a Lunch Bunch
How to measure and track the progress of social skills

Unlock Potential - Strategies for Success with Your Autistic Students

Supporting Students with Autism: YOU can make a difference

Choose Between 4 Breakout Rooms:

Introduction to Behaviour Intervention Training

Pathological Demand Avoidance

Soft Skills: Creating A Social-Emotional Support System

Lunch Brunch: A Guide to Running Structured Social Skills Groups

Introduction to Behaviour Intervention Training: Two Concurrent Sessions

Empowering Learners with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)

Soft Skills: Creating a Social-Emotional Support System for Students with Unique Needs

Lunch Bunch: A Guide to Running Structured Social Skills Groups

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