
Recording of Maria Toth: Language Intervention with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Grades PreK - 5 Webinar
Presenter: Maria Toth, MS, CCC-SLP This informative webinar is appropriate, not only for speech language pathologists, but also for other educators and clinicians. Helpful resources where participants can gain more information regarding the topics of discussion will be shared by the presenter. The areas covered in this webinar include: Language Development Commonly Seen in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder This includes characteristics of these disorders as related to communication and common difficulties related to this area. Treatment Approaches A variety of approaches will be discussed that are evidence- based, as related to intervention. These include Speech Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and the Developmental, Individual-differences approach (DIR) to name a few. Strategies We will discuss a multitude of practical strategies commonly used to build language skills of these individuals. Social Communication Techniques on how to teach these pragmatic language ski