Dallas, Texas, March 5, 2009- Special one-day seminar designed for special education teachers and directors, psychologists, speech pathologists, counselors, social workers, classroom teachers, instructional aides, nurses, education specialists, principals, vice principals, case managers and parents.

General Information
Dallas, Texas · March 5, 2009
Wyndham Love Field 3300 W. Mockingbird Lane Dallas, TX 75235

(214) 357- 8500


Registration: 8:30 am - 9:00 am · Session: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Lunch Break: 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm (On Your Own)

Contact Lorman for hotel/seminar information at
866-352-9539 (please call hotel for accommodations or directions only). The facility is wheelchair accessible. Please contact us with any questions.

Walk-Ins: Call Lorman for final schedule information.

Cancellations: Substitute registrants are welcome and may be named at any time. If you cancel six or more business days in advance, you will receive a full refund, less a $20.00 service charge. If you cancel within five business days you are not entitled to a cash refund. However, as a courtesy, we will allow you to apply your payment toward any future Lorman seminar within one year from the date you cancel. Your payment is transferable. Please note that if you do not attend and you do not cancel as described above, you are responsible for the entire payment. If Lorman cancels a program, you will receive a full refund. Lorman disclaims any liability for any other direct or compensatory payment.
Copyright Statement:
Lorman seminars are copyrighted and may not be recorded or transcribed in whole or part without its express prior written permission. Your attendance at a Lorman seminar constitutes your agreement not to record or transcribe all or any part of it.

Critical Issues on the Agenda
 
8:30 am - 9:00 am Registration

9:00 am - 11:00 am Overview of Asperger's Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorders Diagnostic Criteria - What This Means for Educators
- Regan Roth Fitzgerald, M.Ed., BCBA

• Overview of Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Diagnostic Criteria for Spectrum Disorders
• Prevalence of the Disorder
• Asperger's Syndrome Across the Life Span
• The Effect the Disorder Has on Educators
• Functional Behavior Assessment and Development BIPs

11:00 am - 11:15 am Break

11:15 am - 12:15 pm Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism: An Overview of Characteristics and Goals
- Kecia Adams-Wright, M.Ed., BCBA

• Identifying Advanced Socially Desirable Skills
• What Are Socially Desirable Skills?
• What Assessments Are Useful in Identifying Social and Communication Deficits for Individuals With AS or HFA?
• Including Social and Communication Goals in an Education or Treatment Plan
• What Are the Optimal Environmental Arrangements for Education and Treatment?
• What Improvements Should You Expect to Observe in Other Areas as Targeted Skills Improve?

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Utilizing the Individualized Education or Treatment Plan
- Julianne Griffith, M.S.

• Making Social Interactions a Priority
• What Are the Possible Settings for Education or Treatment?
• What Professionals Can or Should Be Providing This Education or Treatment?
• Peer Selection
• How Do You Choose the Appropriate Peer(s) for Education and Treatment?
• How Do You Motivate the Peers for Successful Implementation?
• Should You Train the Peers for the Appropriate Interactions to Occur, and How?
• Successful Techniques
• What Are Some Adult-Mediated Strategies and How Do We Utilize Them?
• What Are Some Peer-Mediated Strategies and How Do We Utilize Them?
• What Is the Intensity and Evaluation Required in Order to See Progress?

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Break

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Research-Based Techniques for Everyday Asperger's Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Issues
- Anita Mukamal, M.Ed.

• Fluency-Based Strategies
• Video Modeling
• Self-Management
• Social Stories

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Lorman Education Services reserves the right to modify the agenda and the faculty when circumstances are beyond our control.

Seminar Highlights

Do you have the latest and most effective strategies for working with individulas with Asperger's Syndrome or high functioning autism?

Educating students with autism who are higher functioning or diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome poses unique challenges to their caregivers and the nation's school system. Understanding the needs of individuals with autism is a primary consideration for providing effective programming. Research-based intervention strategies are often more difficult to implement due to the many theories and beliefs about autism's root causes. Attend this seminar and get the latest information regarding current research-based practices for educating students with higher functioning autism or Asperger's Syndrome.

Benefits for You

• Do's and don'ts for developing functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans
• Learn to apply prosocial goals to the individual education plan
• Properly implement IEPs and BIPs in the classroom
• Facilitate successful inclusion in the general education setting
• Research-based techniques for handling common higher functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome issues

Professional Manual
You will receive a professionally prepared manual compiled by the faculty specifically for this seminar. The seminar will be recorded. Your registration constitutes your consent to such recording. If you cannot attend, you may order a set of CDs and the accompanying manual from this program by using the registration form on the back panel.

Continuing Education Credits

Please remember to bring your license number, ID or other necessary information to the seminar. This will ensure timely reporting of continuing education credit. Please see our
Web site at www.lorman.com for further details about continuing education credit information.

This workshop has been approved by the NASW/Texas Chapter for 0.60 CEUs for social workers, LPCs and LMFTs.

Lorman Business Center, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Lorman Business Center, Inc. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 6.0 hours. Participants must have signed in, attended the entire seminar, completed an evaluation, and signed out, in order to receive a certificate of attendance. Participants not fulfilling these requirements will not receive a certificate. Failure to sign in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire seminar. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available.

Lorman Education Services is approved by the Continuing Education Board of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) to provide continuing education activities in speech-language pathology and audiology. This program is offered for 0.6 CEUS (Intermediate level; Professional area). ASHA CE Provider approval does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.

Lorman Business Center, Inc. is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer 6.00 hours of continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines.

Lorman Business Center, Inc. is a registered provider with the Texas Education Agency.
Lorman Business Center, Inc. is an Authorized Provider by the International Association of Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Lorman Business Center, Inc. will award 0.60 CEUs to participants who successfully complete this program. Participants must complete an evaluation in order to receive CEUs. Please verify applicability with your professional board before attending.

IACET Learning Objectives
The attendee will be able to discuss a variety of methods for conducting functional behavior assessments.
The attendee will be able to develop a behavior intervention plan based on the FBA.
The attendee will be able to identify strategies for implementing prosocial goals into the IEP.

Our Distinguished Faculty
Kecia Adams-Wright, M.Ed., BCBA,
is a board certified behavior analyst and clinical supervisor with the DFW Center for Autism. She holds an M.Ed. degree in special education and a graduate academic certificate in autism intervention from the University of North Texas. As a graduate student at UNT, she was nominated to the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi. She holds a Texas educator certificate in special education for pre-k through grades 12 and general education grades 1 through 6. She has a B.A. degree in psychology from The University of Texas at Dallas. Ms. Adams-Wright has been providing services to children with autism in the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 1997. She first worked as an ABA therapist in home programs and shadowing students in private school settings. She later joined public education and has worked in area school districts serving as a teacher of students with special needs and autism, a parent trainer, teacher trainer and mentor, and behavior specialist. She has also served the autism community as a consultant for in-home programs and behavior intervention since 2004. She may be contacted at kaw@dfwcenterforautism.org.
Regan Roth Fitzgerald, M.Ed., BCBA,
is a board certified behavior analyst who has her own private practice consulting in the DFW metroplex. Her practice is named Behavior & Education Specialists of Texas. She is also the behavior analyst/autism expert for the Garland Independent School District. Mrs. Fitzgerald received her bachelor's degree in psychology and Spanish from The University of Texas at Austin. She went on and earned her M.Ed. degree from the University of North Texas with an emphasis in autism intervention. She has worked with children on the autism spectrum for over 10 years. Mrs. Fitzgerald has presented her research at national conferences and has conducted numerous workshops concerning topics within the field of applied behavior analysis.Julianne Griffith, M.S., BCBA,

is a board certified behavior analyst and clinical supervisor with the DFW Center for Autism. Ms. Griffith earned a B.S. degree in behavioral analysis and an M.S. degree in behavior analysis with an emphasis in autism from the University of North Texas. While in school she completed research, including her thesis, focusing on play skills for young children with autism, as well as research for staff training for preschool employees. Ms. Griffith has been committed to working with children with autism and their families for six years in the child's home, private preschools and community settings. Her main focus for teaching children with autism has included building language, social skills, play skills and academic skills. Ms. Griffith is a frequent presenter on autism and education topics.

Anita Mukamal, M.Ed.,  

works in the public schools as a behavior specialist, where she consults to those in the educational setting, providing training and assistance to teachers and administrators. Her work with children and adolescents with emotional disturbance/behavior management disorders has spanned 38 years. Ms. Mukamal developed and acted as the lead teacher in the HOPE Program, an alternative program for children and adolescents with severe behavior management problems in Bedford, Texas. During her career in education, she has been honored as Teacher of the Year (1995). She is included in The World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who of Child Development Professionals and Prominent Texas Educators. In addition to her work in the schools, Ms. Mukamal is a popular presenter at local, state and national workshops and conventions. She is an advocate for strengthening home/school partnerships and has worked with parents to make to achieve that goal. Ms. Mukamal has conducted parent education sessions and has facilitated training for groups of school counselors, psychologists and teachers to conduct MEMOS For Parents training workshops and research throughout the United States.