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Workshops
Publications: Practical Strategies for Stabilizing Students With Classic Autism: Getting to Go (2010 Autism Asperger Publishing Company) 2010 The Hidden Curriculum Calendar for Older Adolescents and Adults (2010 Autism Asperger Publishing Company) The Power of Words, How We Talk About People with Autism Spectrum Disorders Matters! (2009 Autism Asperger Publishing Company) Outsmarting Explosive Behavior, a Visual System of Support and Intervention for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (2009 Autism Asperger Publishing Company) Paper Words, Discovering and Living with My Autism (2009 Autism Asperger Publishing Company) Presentations include, but are not limited to the following: Outsmarting Explosive Behavior This presentation, based on Outsmarting Explosive Behavior, a Visual System of Support and Intervention for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders, describes an effective way to support individuals with explosive behaviors by using a visual system of four train cars to depict the stages of explosive behavior along with stop and go signs to show effective support strategies to use during each stage in the explosive behavior cycle. This model has been effectively used with numerous students (Early Childhood through Adulthood), continues to be a part of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Autism Training Project and has been published by AAPC as a three part kit (facilitator manual, visual system and student workbook). Practical Strategies to Stabilize Students With Classic Autism Based on Judy's newest publication, Practical Strategies to Stabilize Students with Classic Autism: Getting to Go, this presentation clearly delineates the nuts and bolts of what Judy does when she is called in to consult for a student with classic autism. Included are many practical strategies for supporting a student to be all he can be - his best version of self and most available for learning. This application of this information has been many student's ticket onward to eventual placement in a more inclusive educational setting. Embracing Life Autistically This presentation opens with a discussion of how autistics are the same and different from people who do not have autism. Selections from both Making Lemonade: Hints for Autism's Helpers and Paper Words, Discovering and Living with My Autism along with Judy's real life stories, including a trip to New York City that highlights how it is not only possible, but can be fun and rewarding for “world-people” to take trips with, interact with and form friendships with a person on the spectrum. You will hear about Judy's sojourns with friends, family and colleagues and how together they have discovered meaningful ways to live out their lives within the context of their relationships. Judy describes how she manages her work and everyday life with the unique challenges and blessing of her autism, and in doing so, conveys a renewed hope for the possibilities that can be in all of our futures as we all continue to learn how to live with autistics in a meaningful, relevant and respectful manner. The Culture of Autism Do autistic people have their own culture? What makes a culture? How do we go from here to wherever it is we hope to go in terms of being who and what we want to be as a cohort of diverse autistics living in a world that is not always conducive to our neurology? As autistics do we have a legacy to pass on to those who follow? This presentation is one person's musing on aspects of a culture of autism designed with a hope toward uniting autistics of differing opinions and their friends and family who support them. The Hidden Curriculum for Older Adolescents and Adults Recognizing the need for more resources for autistic teens and adults and based on the work of Brenda Smith Myles, Judy has authored The Hidden Curriculum Calendar for Older Adolescents and Adults. This presentation will offer practical suggestions and advice concerning the subtle information in the world all around us that most people seem to pick up automatically but must be specifically taught/learned by those with autism and other social-cognitive challenges. Hidden curriculum items cover such topics as social relationships, community, money matters and workplace. Making Lemonade This presentation addresses how those on the autism spectrum take in, process, store and retrieve information. Topics include sensory system differences and literal, concrete thinking style. Selected readings from Making Lemonade: Hints for Autism's Helpers will illustrate how Judy has turned some difficult “lemons” of autism, both of her own autism and of those with whom she has worked, into lemonade. Illustrations of the impact of autism on personal relationships will be discussed along with encouragement on the importance of friendship development between autistics and the “world-people” around them using real life stories from Judy's personal experiences. Thinking in Pictures This presentation, based on a chapter in Paper Words, Discovering and Living with My Autism, is an innovative approach to understanding the way many individuals on the autism spectrum think. Judy uses a visual system to demonstrate how to assist individuals with ASD to change their thinking patterns and avoid behavior meltdowns. This approach can also be applied to teaching reading comprehension, writing skills and dealing with ever changing schedules which can be difficult for so many of our folks with autism. Come prepared to learn, to participate and maybe even to change your own thinking! |
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