Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Session: Session #5
Learning Objectives:
- Identify issues of autism-related risk
- Provide strategies to help manage ASD risks at home, school
- Disclosure options: ID cards, 911 registries, and field disclosure
- Identify trends and minimize victimization of persons with autism
- Identify tools, options and planning strategies for parents, care providers, educators and persons with autism to develop professional partnerships with law enforcement, first response, and emergency medical service agencies.
Outline of Presentation:
Designed to identify and provide strategies to help manage autism related risk and victimization at home, school and in the community.
Will identify the best tools and options for parents, care providers, educators and persons with autism when developing partnerships with law enforcement, first response, and criminal justice agencies
Target audience
• Persons on the spectrum
• Parents, family members and supporters
• Autism professionals
• Educators: teachers, paraprofessionals, supervisors
• Non teaching staff, maintenance, food service, transportation
• Human and social services professionals
• Adult and child care professionals
• Community recreation and library professionals
• Vocational and employment specialists
• Victims services professionals
Objectives and Agenda for discussion and review:
- Identify issues of autism-related risk • Wandering
- Contact with police and first responders
- Safety at home, on campus and when traveling
- 911 data base alerts
- Developing an autism emergency handout
- Sharing deescalation techniques
- Identify issues of autism-related risk
- Provide strategies to help manage ASD risks at home, school
- Disclosure options: ID cards, 911 registries, and field disclosure
- Discuss prevention, alert and response plans for dangerous wandering
- Developing safety programs for home, campus, work, recreational and community settings
- Reducing victimization
- Safety & risk life skills training for students
- Developing partnerships with law enforcement & first response agencies