Autism and special needs: Early intervention therapy model
What you'll learn
- Understand the theory and importance importance of visual aids that helps in children with autism and related special needs issues.
- Step by step system to create visual aids to help the child with autism/special needs build routines. This will aid them in transition between activities.
- Develop visual aids to help children with special needs cope better in terms of managing their behaviours and helping them in their academic development.
- Real life videos and examples on teaching children with autism/special needs basic life skills such toilet training and eating independently.
- Examine the difference between autism, Asperger , ADHD and related developmental disorders
- Step by step guide on how to manage meltdowns and tantrums for children with autism and related special needs issues
- Achieve better relationship with your child with autism/special needs with communication techniques taught in this course
- Learn to be highly efficient in developing rapport and closer relationship with children with autism with our customized therapy techniques and video examples
- Create confidence and ability in doing up materials and see real life examples of how visual aids and knowledge can help improve well bring of child with autism
Requirements
- A computer or mobile device with internet connection is all you need
- You must be willing to invest USD$35 to learn quality theories and practical videos on how early intervention is important to children with autism and related special needs
- You do NOT need any experience in special needs therapy or intervention to attend this course. This course use layman terms with clear audio and videos to teach you how tp help children with autism and related issues improve their attention span, reduce meltdown, build routines and much more!
- Ask me ANY questions via chat or email. I am always here to help you at all times
Description
Have you come across any children with developmental disorders? Do you know how it affects their lives and the lives of the people around them? What can you do to help?
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Autism, affects the individual’s learning and thinking patterns. This in turn affects their behavior and how they interact with other people. A good understanding of Autism is critical to customizing effective intervention strategies for individuals with special needs.
After attending this course, you will be able to
- Identify characteristics of children with autism, ADHD and other developmental issues.
- Step by step guide on how to help them improve from their current conditions.
- Learn and create visual aids to help them navigate transitions, build routines and improve their wellbeing in home and school settings.
- Find out the most current techniques of helping children with autism/special needs to communicate via words or picture exchange communication system (PECS)
- Create a basic curriculum so they can learn alphabets, numbers and cognitive skills more easily
- Teach them super important life skills such as toileting, self-feeding, putting on shoes and much more!
- Learn ways on how to handle meltdowns at home and public places.
- Learn the basics of how to generalize what is learnt in this course into the real world setting!
Who this course is for:
- Family members of persons with developmental disorders such as ASD, ADHD or global developmental delay (GDD)
- Parents, caregivers and school teacchers who wants to help their child or loved ones with special needs
- Educational or early intervention therapists who wish to learn more to improve their clinical skills
- Anyone who is keen to work with children with special needs and wants to know more to help them.
Instructor
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 448 Reviews
- 10,731 Students
- 3 Courses
International Author who has published 2 books by Future Horizons Inc (USA) which is world leader in autism and sensory resources.
His books have been used by schools worldwide on inclusive education and parent training for children with special needs.
· School Shadow Guidelines (2015)
“Your child may find it difficult to adapt to new surroundings and learning environments from time to time. School Shadow Guidelines helps guide your child to develop appropriate behaviors in school, establish an environment that helps to strengthen academic ability, and also build up on his/her social interaction skills with the goal of independence. Special needs children can benefit from having inclusive education to aid in their development and growth; this is where school shadowing serves vital roles.”
· Parents’ Guide to Early Intervention (2021)
“Parents Guide to Early Intervention provides parents with a simple step-by-step model to help their children with special needs navigate the above issues. It is based on the Comprehensive Model for Early Intervention (CMEI) developed by Alex Liau, who has worked with children with special needs for the past 15 years. Alex has combined his experiences in working with parents in Asia, United States, Australia, and Europe in crafting early intervention plans for children with special needs.”
– Certified EIBI/ABA Consultant (Training Institute of Geneva Autism Center, Toronto, Canada)
– Guest Lecturer at Ngee Ann Polytechnic for Diploma in Child Psychology & Early Education and Bachelors of Science (Early Childhood Education and Leadership)
– Graduate from the world renowned training institute, Geneva Autism Center.(Certification in the Principles of ABA for Teaching and Intervention)
– Trained and endorsed by world renowned Psychologist, Dr Jeb Baker who is an international expert in managing challenging behaviors and social skills training.
– Trained and certified in the introduction and advanced course of the SCERTS program.
– Personally trained by Carol Gray, who is the founder and president of Social Stories which is ranked one of the most effective tools to help children with autism. He is the only person in the region to be trained in the latest Social Stories 10.1.
- Completed the Professional Development course under Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT). Alex is trained in:
• ASPECT Comprehensive Approach for Education
• ASPECT Educational Outreach
The above certifications equip Alex with the expertise and best practices in supporting children with special needs in mainstream schools worldwide.
Alex obtained his degree in Psychology in the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has many years of experience working with children exhibiting a wide array of learning and behavior difficulties, with many diagnosed as having autism spectral disorder (ASD).
He received training on Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) in Australia and subsequently went to Houston, Texas to receive Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) training under Dr. Steven Gutstein and Dr. Rachel Sheely. He has presented in Australia, Houston and Singapore and has been invited to participate in interviews by the press in Singapore. Additionally, he has worked with clients from various countries like China, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Australia. He has also mentored and trained many therapists throughout his career.
His interest in children with special needs started while he was concentrating on Childhood Psychology and pursued a research project on autism and related disorders. The many successful cases he achieve while working intensively with children with ASD made him a firm believer of early intervention and other comprehensive, experimentally proven therapies. Alex has the ability to harness the confidence and self esteem of these children which in turn enable them to be more receptive to compliance training and regain the ability to learn and progress.
While utilizing the skills he acquired during training, he realized that the two therapies work well in tandem and children were receptive to different aspects of each therapy depending on the clinical presentation of the symptoms and impairments. He is the only therapist in Singapore that provides these two methods that synergise and facilitate the learning of a child. Since the RDI approach involves in building of rapport between the child and family, which works well in bringing about remediation of the child’s difficulties and reaps substantive benefits in the child’s development and progress when parents play an active roles in their child’s life, the focus then, is not only on the child, but also on his parents. Alex has generously provided the necessary emotional support and advice to the parents of children under his care.
As each child is unique, he develops individualized in-home behavioural intervention plans for children and teaching programmes for parents, tailored to the specifications and needs of each child, to effectively bring out the best potential of the child.
Alex also volunteers at Pathlight School under the Gound-Up Initiative (GUI). Alex sees the benefits of having the children with difficulties interact and grow together with other children and has extensive experience in providing mainstream school integration support through the various school collaborations. Embarking a step beyond, Alex has provided extracurricular activities to invoke the curiosity of these children by organising various group outings for all the children to participate in.