Presented by: Michelle Garcia Winner
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Session: Session 21

Outline of Presentation

There appears to be several stages in the development of special interests and the presentation outlines the developmental sequence and the reasons why specific interests occur as part of the overall profile of Asperger's syndrome. The perspective of parents, teachers and the person with Asperger's syndrome are explored and strategies outlined to make constructive use of the interest or to reduce the dominance of a specific interest in the person’s daily life.

1. Participants will be able to define how the development of play impacts our social skills in our later years.
2. Participants will be able to describe how the educational standards of language arts are supported by social thinking.
3. Participants will be able to define the 4 steps of communication and how to introduce these concepts into the home and school day.
4. Participants will be able to describe how perspective taking is a social executive functioning skill as well as strategies to support its continued growth.
5. Participants will be able to describe 2 therapy/educational activities to encourage social-communication development.