Lectures & Workshops

 

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Our Seminars
How many times have you sat through an interesting workshop, even taking copious notes, only to find you can't effectively retain and utilize the information? When ECN, Inc. presents workshops, we teach using multiple modalities to ensure successful applications in the classroom, or your home.

Some modalities include:

  • Overheads and adjunct packets of materials
  • Modeling and role playing
  • Intervention suggestions
  • Creating mock classrooms and interventions
  • Videotape
  • Simulations
  • Partner and small group cooperative learning
  • Critiquing other people's work via videotape

You Come to Us / We Come to You
Our highly qualified staff offer presentations at either our facility or yours. At our facility we can accommodate up to 65 people. We can custom design any workshop to educate your staff. We also offer free workshops to the community every other month on Tuesday evenings from 6:30-8:30. The workshops are free, but fill up quickly and you must register to attend.

Fees
The majority of our workshops are free as part of our Tuesday Free Lecture Series. Our lecture series is open to the public on a first register - first serve basis. Click here for fee information regarding specialty lectures created just for your organization.


    Treatment Options
 
  • What are the various treatment options offered for children on the Autism Spectrum (brief overview of Applied Behavior Analysis, Discrete Trial Training, Positive Behavioral Support, Floor-Time, Bateson Therapy), and when it is appropriate to use each methodology?
  • Learning how to use Discrete Trial Training and Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Understanding how to collect valid data samples and graphing data
  • Understanding and applying Floor Time
  • Treatment for Self-Injurious Behaviors
  • Behavioral Solutions
 
 

Introduction to Verbal Behavior

In this workshop you will learn about the functional categories of language (Mand, Receptive Language, Tact, Inter-verbal, FFC, Echoic, Motor Imitation) and how we can use these concepts to teach functional communication skills to children with autism.

 
  Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
 
Why are children with OCD compelled to engage in rituals and obsessions? Is there a difference between OCD and children on the Autism Spectrum with obsessive-compulsive tendencies? Are there any fast and easy treatment options? Come to this workshop and find out!
 

Floortime

 

Through interactive exercises you will gain valuable insight into how to apply this methodology and how to create activities that are fun, exciting, meaningful, and motivating to children.

 
  Free Toys
 
Come to a workshop specifically designed for Early Intervention staff to enhance your play skills while collaborating with other professionals.

Everyone who attends gets free toys!

 
  Executive Functioning
 
Why might some children on the Autism Spectrum have difficulty with organization, literal thinking, attention, problem solving, transitions, and learning from past mistakes? Come to this workshop and find out the answers and helpful solutions.
 
  Transitioning Back to School
 
Get yourself and your child prepared for the upcoming school year. Discuss strategies and learn what you might do to gear up your child.
 
  Understanding Asperger's Syndrome
 
Learn to better understand Asperger’s, its characteristics, and what is an appropriate classroom setting, through lecture, demonstration, video and discussion.
 
  Behavior Management
 
This lecture will uncover reasons for behavior, help you develop techniques to decelerate aberrant behavior, and teach appropriate replacement skills to help improve the quality of life of your child. This lecture is geared toward parents and professionals.
 
  Facilitating Social Interaction
 
Does your child’s IEP call for “pragmatics?” What exactly are “pragmatics,” and how do I implement them? Learn what they are and how to implement them with your five to twelve year old child.
 

Diagnostic and Introduction

 
  1. Early Diagnosis and Warning Signs for Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders
  2. Genetics and Neuroscience: How does your brain work?
  3. Introduction to:
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Sensory Integration
  • Central Auditory Processing Disorders
  • Behavior Management
  • Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  • Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Tourette's Syndrome
  • Sign Language
  • Semantic Pragmatic Disorder
 
  Increasing Language
 
  • Using sign and gesture to increase communication
  • Workshop on sign language
  • Facilitating language development
  • Visual Communication: PECS, Sign, Photograph, and Object
  • Teaching effective communication skills
  • Understanding Central Auditory Processing Disorders
 
  Sensory Processing
 
  • Understanding Sensory Integration Dysfunction
 
  Theory of Mind (perspective taking)
 
  • Extensive understanding of the Theory of Mind: includes learning the theory, symptoms presented, and treatment options including a curriculum which has activities to teach theory of mind skills.

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