Pamela Crooke, PhD, CCC-SLP
Director, Social Thinking Training and Speakers' Collaborative, San Jose, California
At ACT, we hear from many families concerned that their teens with ASD are unprepared to graduate. Academically able students also need help to develop the life skills they need to thrive in higher education and employment.  School and home teams are more effective when they consider these issues at 12 rather than 17! This one day workshop with Dr. Pamela Crooke, who works extensively with able teens and young adults, will provide school teams and parents with a practical approach to helping young people with ASD thrive either in higher education or employment.

Dr. Pamela Crooke, Chief of Research at Social Thinking, is an SLP and academic with long experience in working with youth and young adults with social learning challenges. She is an excellent presenter, blending humour and compassion. Her most recent book geared to adults, Social Thinking at Work: Why Should I Care?, was co-authored with Michelle Garcia Winner.

Participants will be able to:

Describe the impact that social learning challenges have on academics and relationship building during the teen/young adult years.
Discuss how the Cascade of Social Attention relates to styles of learning (concrete vs. nuanced based).
Explain how anxiety can be a "stop sign" in an individual's ability to use Social Thinking and related skills.
Explain how a student can learn to identify and prioritize his or her own treatment* goals.
*Treatment refers to conceptual and strategy-based frameworks for building understanding and use of social skills and social thinking.

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