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Half-Day Workshop

Seminar: Using Systems to Teach Social and Emotional Information and Skills (5-Point Scale)

This workshop is a VIDEO RECORDED TRAINING (2h) with LIVE Q&A (1hr)

Problems of Social Cognition involve difficulties in the areas of Social Thinking, Relationship Building, Social Problem Solving and Emotional Regulation. This presentation will address these areas of need as they impact a person’s ability to function in the highly social environment of school. Social Cognition is developmental and having a problem of delayed or absent social understanding impacts a person’s competence in almost all social situations. These difficulties can lead to explosive behavior and even aggression.

Kari will present a brief overview of the social thinking research and learning theories emerging from the fairly new field of educational neuroscience. She will then describe and illustrate highly systematic approaches to teaching social information, and increasing a person’s ability to understand and regulate their emotional responses. The strategies discussed will involve the systematic use of the Incredible 5-Point Scale.

Speaker: Kari Dunn Buron, MS, Autism Education Specialist/Author

Kari taught in the K-12 public school system with autistic students for 30+ years and was a founding member of the Minnesota Dept of Education’s Autism Project. Kari developed an Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate program for educators at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and she sits on the Advisory Board for the Autism Society of Trinidad and Tobago and the Autism Society of Minnesota. In 2003, Kari received a Self-designed Fellowship that allowed her to spend a year interviewing and working internationally with a number of scientists and researchers in the area of Neuroscience, Social Cognition, Education and Autism with a focus on challenging behaviors.

Kari is the co-author of The Incredible 5-Point Scale and Social Behavior and Self-Management. She is the author of When My Worries Get Too Big (winner of the 2013 Mom’s Choice Award), Adalyn’s Clare, A 5 Could Make Me Lose Control and A 5 is Against the Law! (2008 ASA literary award winner). Kari is also the co-editor of a textbook for educators titled Learners on the Autism Spectrum: Preparing Highly Qualified Educators (2009 ASA literary award winner).

Kari has done volunteer work related to autism in Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and Nepal. She has presented her work internationally and in 2012, Kari was inducted into the Illinois State University Department of Education Hall of Fame.

Kari recently revised and re-launched her books under her own self-publishing company, 5 Point Scale Publishing. www.5pointscale.com

Course Objectives

1. Define Social Cognition as it is explained by current research and explain how it relates to how a person with challenging social interactions.
2. Define systematic learning as it applies to teaching social information to autistic people and related social differences.
3. Describe the Anxiety Curve Model and name 3 ways of proactively teaching relaxation to highly anxious students.

Who Can Benefit?

Teachers, Parents and anyone else who supports an autistic child or adolescent

Course Fees & Closing Dates

Registration Type	Closing Date	Fees (S$) /pax
	26 Jul 2024	120
Normal	Till Full	150