Creating Visual Supports for Children with Autism

Belinda Worley, MS-SLP-CCC

Online Course

Includes all course content in digital format

Prerequisites Required
2 hours - Provided by Summit Professional Education

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Description

This 2-hour dynamic course will take you on the autism journey to help you understand the importance of visual supports and early intervention for this growing population. Not only is "making visual" essential, it can also help to improve classroom success and daily living skills. It is time to think outside the box and get creative in your home, classroom, and therapy settings. Participants will be provided practical visual supports and strategies to use in the home, natural setting, therapy setting or school. The course will provide participants with low budget resources they can implement tomorrow as well as a greater appreciation of the child with autism.

Highlights

  • Ideas and strategies that help children with autism spectrum disorders through sensory integration, communication, behavior, daily living, social skills, and education
  • Develop visual supports, schedules, and social stories that can benefit young children with autism
  • Select practical visual supports that can be used to help engage the young child with autism

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine the importance of movement and visual support for children with autism.
  2. Implement visual supports and social stories to increase overall developmental skills of children with autism.
  3. Select practical, inexpensive items and resources to help engage the young child with autism.

Course Content

Creating Visual Supports for Children with Autism
SCORM Package
Next Steps
Module
  1. Get the Child Moving and Make it Visual!
    1. Introduction and personal journey
    2. The importance of movement and visual support when serving children with autism
  2. Visual Supports and Social Stories
    1. Benefits of implementation of visual supports
    2. Toy play
    3. At home
    4. At school
    5. Therapy sessions
    6. Behavior and emotional charts
    7. Daily living
  3. Autism Support and Resources
    1. Practical, inexpensive items
    2. Community resources
Belinda Worley, MS-SLP-CCC is a speech pathologist specializing in early intervention and autism. She has been a practicing clinician since 2000 and has worked in many professional settings including the home, natural environment, outpatient, private practice and school setting. She is the owner of her own pediatric clinic in southeast Missouri serving children in a rural area where resources are very limited. She prides herself in providing professionals with practical, inexpensive strategies and techniques that can be used with clients on the autism spectrum. Belinda Worley has presented nationally on topics related to functional communication, early intervention and autism spectrum disorders. She is a licensed SLP and certified by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She is currently a private practitioner providing services to individuals with speech, language, and communication disorders in Dexter, Missouri. She is passionate about autism awareness serving on various local and state boards advocating for children on the autism spectrum. Her greatest accomplishment is her daughter who has an autism diagnosis. Her journey has been such a successful and powerful journey and true inspiration for all.

DISCLOSURES

FINANCIAL: Belinda Worley is compensated as the owner of Bootheel Pediatric Therapy LLC and by Summit as an instructor. She receives a percentage of the sale of her book, "The Autism Journey of Hope".

NONFINANCIAL: Belinda Worley has a daughter diagnosed with Autism.

Summit receives financial support for this course from Physitrack

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