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REGISTRATION FEES:
Individual: $195
HCESC, CCESC, WCESC, HCIDD, CCHMC SLPs & Affiliates: $0
WORKSHOP LOCATION:
Vineyard Community Church
11340 Century Circle E
Cincinnati, OH 45246
DATES/TIMES:
Day One: October 20, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. -- Registration
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. -- Workshop (Lunch on your own)
Day Two: October 21, 2010
7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. -- Registration
8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. -- Workshop (Lunch on your own)
WORKSHOP PRESENTER BIO:
Michelle Garcia Winner is a speech-language pathologist who specializes in working with students with social cognitive deficits. She runs a clinic, has authored numerous books and speaks internationally. Michelle's goal is to help educators and parents appreciate how social thinking and social skills are an integral part of students’ academic, vocational and community success. She was honored with a "Congressional Special Recognition Award" in 2008.
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
“Social Thinking” was a term coined to describe a treatment that focuses on teaching students to understand the social brain works and why we are expected to produce specific social skills prior to teaching the student to do the social skill. This technique dedicated to our students with social learning challenges who have developed a reasonable language-based communication system and have near normal to way above normal verbal intelligence; many refer to this population as “high functioning”. With this approach we can utilize a student’s natural intelligence to help him learn more about communication which doesn’t come as naturally to the student.
However, our students' Social Learning challenges do not only impact their social interactions. It also impacts their ability to engage with their curriculum. In the morning we will introduce the I LAUGH model of Social Cognition which helps to demonstrate how social processing difficulties impact not only social skills but also the ability to work as part of a group and focus on specific academic tasks such as written expression, reading comprehension and organizational skills for many of our students.
Social learning challenges are also not black and white. Students have different levels of natural social abilities. A student’s perspective taking skills appear to strongly impact one’s ability to acquire new social information. This in-service will explore a theoretical Spectrum of Perspective Taking created by Michelle G. Winner and how different lessons need to be taught based on a student’s perspective taking abilities.
Participants will learn not only about how the social brain works in us all but also explore a number of strategies to directly help students learn to increase their ability to “think socially”.
PAYMENT POLICY:
You may complete your registration, however, payment in the form of a check, a copy of the Purchase Order or the Purchase Order #, or credit card (Visa or MasterCard only), must be received prior to the Event.
If using a credit card, please contact Registration at 513-674-4259. If payment is not received prior to the event, your registration will be subject to cancellation.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Cancellations made fewer than 7 days prior to the scheduled Event may be subject to processing and Event fees. No-Shows will be charged for the full amount of the Event. If you need to make a change to your registration or cancel, call Registration at 513-674-4259.
AVAILABLE CREDIT:
--Contact Hours: 12.5
--Credit: For One Semester Hour ($172.00) from Ashland University, full attendance is required at both days of the Social Thinking and Social Cognitive Deficits Workshop, October 20, 2010 and October 21, 2010.
--ASHA CEUs Available
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