New Resource from Yale Child Study Center

As we all know individuals with autism spectrum disorders exhibit a range of behavioral excesses and deficits that can interfere significantly with adaptive functioning at home, in the community, and at school. These challenges can lead to isolation, cause injury or harm to others, and lead ultimately to the exclusion of some students from programs and training they need to progress socially and linguistically. There is a considerable amount of evidenced based research and this has been turned into training and interventions. Often this training is not available to parents and caregivers. Yale Child Study Center has graciously decided to share their autism training course with the public for free. You can get to it on their website here or locate it here on YouTube.

http://autism.yale.edu

The Yale Child Study Center brings quality research and clinical programs to families and children living with Autism all around the world. The lecture content and supporting materials available online for free to anyone who desires to learn about Autism Spectrum Disorders. They can easily be translated into several languages.

Video of each lecture was captured in highdefinition format. One of the features available through Google/YouTube's technology is the ability to provide a version of each video with English-language closed captioning turned on.

The lecture I am first recommending introduces the foundations of behavioral assessment and treatment of significant challenging behavior in persons with autism. If your school hasn't seen this, and you have doubts about their ability to deal with your child due to a lack of training, suggest this video and the others. The assessment and intervention principles discussed are firmly grounded in the behavior analytic research literature, and have enjoyed widespread clinical application with a diverse range of behaviors including aggression, self-injury, stereotypy, property destruction, and pica. Following a detailed discussion of the use of the technology of functional analysis, those variables and conditions in the environment that maintain challenging behavior are discussed in relation to the development of treatment plans that are functional, based on positive behavior supports, and that teach more adaptive prosocial behavioral repertoires.

This is by far the best lecture I have seen available on the web. And it's free.

for more information on my own services please check out my professional site at www.relatedminds.com or www.socialcognitivetherapy.com We provide individual consultation and behavioural interventions for children and adolescents with autism disorder and Aspergers. We provide training to schools and individual classroom consultation. We have ABA certified providers for those seeking ABA services and individuals with training in social communications therapy. Assessments for Aspergers Disorder, autism spectrum disorder and co-morbid disorders such as ADHD are also available in our offices in Burnaby and Vancouver. We service individuals in Burnaby, Coquitlam, Vancouver and through individual arrangements throughout the lower mainland. In addition to providing services to children and adolescents we have several years experience working with young adults attending college, entering the workplace and older adults.