Behavioral Therapy Interventions &
Educational and Sensory Issues in AutismThis gallery will feature interviews covering behavioral therapy interventions, educational issues of concern to parents who are struggling to provide the best quality education for their children with autism, and the sensory issues that often play a role in disrupting the best of educational plans.
Individual Education Plans can be a stressful time for parents trying to understand their rights, while obtaining an adequate educational program for their child’s special needs. Having legal information and experience from experts will help parents to better understand the process. Areas such as understanding your rights, negotiation, functional behavioral assessments, due process hearings and mediation will be addressed.
Sensory Integration Dysfunction is also a key educational component that is often overlooked or understated. Understanding how sensory issues play a vital role in behavior, attention, mood modulation, and self regulation can often be determining factors in a successful educational plan. Addressing sensory needs provides an opportunity for many children with disruptive behavior issues to function successfully in a mainstreamed setting. This is an area you don’t want to miss!
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Eric Chessen
Developing and incorporating fitness
programs for individuals with autismEric Chessen is a fitness therapist and consultant for the young autism population. In addition to working with a Johns Hopkins satellite program for teenagers with autism, Eric is the founder of Theraplay-NY, fitness for young individuals on the autism spectrum, working one-to-one with his athletes. Eric is a contributing writer to leading autism publications including Spectrum magazine and The Autism Perspective and hosts a show on fitness and health on Autism One Radio.
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Timothy A. Adams, Esq.
& Lynne Arnold
Advocating for your child and overcoming
objections at IEP meetingsTimothy A. Adams, Esq. received his Bachelor's degree from the University of California, Irvine and his Juris Doctorate degree from Pepperdine University School of Law. He has served as an adjunct professor and Associate Director of the Special Education Advocacy Clinic, Pepperdine University School of Law. He is actively involved in educating parents through presentations to disability rights organizations and parent support groups including speaking at Autism One (2005-2008), the National Autism Association (2005, 2007-2008) and the National Epilepsy Foundation Annual Conference (2001). He has been interviewed and quoted in publications including the Daily Journal (2001), the Orange County Register and the nationally published magazine Parenting (March 2003); He is Roberts & Adams' Chief Executive Officer.
Lynne Arnold is the chapter director for Talk About Curing Autism (TACA) of Visalia, CA and an Autism One parent mentor. Through conference presentations and mentoring, she helps parents to understand their child's rights to appropriate interventions and education. Lynne is the editor of Autism: Asserting Your Child's Rights to a Special Education by David A. Sherman. She has presented at Autism One (2005-2008), National Autism Association Conference (2005 and 2007-2008), Families for Effective Autism Treatment (FEAT), Autism Society of America and for other autism groups.
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Funding behavioral treatment through
the Medicaid-EPSDT-BHRS ConnectionSteven Kossor is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Behavior Change, and founder and clinical director of the Children's Behavioral Health Center. He is a licensed psychologist and certified school psychologist. For more than thirty years, Steve has specialized in helping children with developmental difficulties, including autism, and is recognized widely as an expert diagnostician and behavioral treatment specialist with extensive experience in the Medicaid EPSDT-BHRS system.
In this 20 minute interview, Mr. Kossor discusses the Pennsylvania model for EPSDT that permits any person under the age of 21 with an Autism Spectrum disorder to receive funding for 20 or more hours of weekly intensive behavioral treatment via Medicaid, regardless of family income. He discusses how this federally mandated program could be implemented cost-effectively in all 50 states.
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teaching skills to children with
developmental delaysDr. Partington is the director of Behavior Analysts, Inc. and provides services to children and their families at the STARS Clinic in Walnut Creek, California. He is internationally recognized for his work in teaching parents and professionals effective and practical methods for motivating and teaching skills to children with developmental delays. He is a licensed psychologist and a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) and has 35 years of experience working with children with developmental disabilities. His expertise is in language-based intervention with children who are experiencing language delays as a result of autism and other related developmental disorders.
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a discussion on sensory issues and processingDr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. She obtained her B.A. at Frankin Pierce College and her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State University. Dr. Grandin received her Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989. Today she teaches courses on livestock behaviour and facility design at Colorado State Univeristy and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, PrimeTime Live, the Today Show, and many shows in other countries. She has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, the New York Times book review, and Discover magazine. Interviews with Dr. Grandin have been broadcast on National Public Radio. She has also authored over 300 articles in both scientific journals and livestock periodicals on animal handling, welfare, and facility design. She is the author of "Thinking in Pictures", "Livestock Handling and Transport," and "Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals." Her book "Animals in Translation" was a New York Times best seller.
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Autism Treatment Center of AmericaRaun K. Kaufman is an international speaker, writer and teacher for The Son-Rise Program® at the Autism Treatment Center of America™. In his work with families, children, and professionals from around the world, Mr. Kaufman brings a distinctive qualification to the realm of Autism treatment—his own personal history.
At 18 months, Raun was diagnosed as severely and incurably autistic. Although advised to institutionalize Raun, his parents, authors/teachers Samahria and Barry Neil Kaufman, instead created an innovative home-based, child-centered program in an effort to reach their son. Their work, which developed into a unique methodology now known as The Son-Rise Program®, enabled Raun to recover completely from his Autism, transforming him from a mute, withdrawn child with a tested I.Q. of less than 30 into an outgoing, social boy with a near-genius I.Q. Raun’s story was recounted by his father, Barry Neil Kaufman, in the best-selling book Son-Rise: The Miracle Continues, and was also the subject of an award-winning NBC television movie, Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love.
After graduating from an Ivy League university (Brown University) with a degree in Biomedical Ethics, Raun K. Kaufman continued his professional development as the director of an educational center for school-aged children as well as a presenter and lecturer at conferences and symposia worldwide. Now, Mr. Kaufman works at the Autism Treatment Center of America™ and is an integral member of The Son-Rise Program® that began with him.
AIT for YOU (Auditory Integration Training)Terrie Silverman, M.S. received her master's degree in speech/language pathology in 1973 from Rutger's University and was trained in November 1992 as an Auditory Integration Training Therapist. She has been working with children, adolescents and adults with autism and developmental disabilities since 1974.
Ms. Silverman and her staff have provided Berard Auditory Integration Training throughout the United States to over 1500 individuals. She was Director of a Richmond, Virginia nonprofit family support agency for 12 years and has worked in public and private schools, residential facilities, group homes and with multidisciplinary teams in hospitals, clinics, schools and state programs.
Ms. Silverman is on the Board of Directors and a member of SAIT, the Society for Auditory Intervention Techniques, and a long time member of the Autism Society of America (ASA) and the Developmental Delay Registry (DDR), as well as the Georgiana Institute. Terrie Silverman is a Berard approved AIT practitioner.
Relocated from Virginia to Wisconsin in 1998, Ms. Silverman is interested in and willing to coordinate Auditory Integration Training sessions in communities throughout the United States. Ms. Silverman and her staff have worked with families and schools in California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Wisconsin.
Visit the Center for Autism and Related Disorders' website for more information.
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Center for Autism and Related DisordersFounder and Executive Director of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), has dedicated more than twenty five years to the study and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders, most recently joining with Thoughtful House Center for Children. Dr. Granpeesheh earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA in 1990 and was licensed by the Medical Board of California in 1992. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Dr. Granpeesheh founded the Center for Autism and Related Disorders in 1990, and through its fourteen offices has helped thousands of children affected by Autism, Asperger's Syndrome and PDD-NOS. CARD Services include assessments, Supervision, parent/teacher training, and one-on-one behavioral therapy.
Autism Solution Center, Inc.Laura Lum Corby is the parent of two children affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders, as well as having an Autism Spectrum Disorder herself. She has a seven-year-old son who was diagnosed with full-blown, non-verbal autism at 18 months, and a 12-year-old daughter with multiple difficulties in the autism spectrum, including Asperger’s Syndrome. Ms. Corby is currently working towards her Ph.D. in Psychology and is also the Founder and CEO of the Autism Solution Center, Inc. in the Memphis, Tennessee area. Ms. Corby is now using her Strong medical and marketing background to address the issues facing autism and those affected by it. She has spent the last five and a half years engaged in intensive biomedical, dietary and therapeutic research, as it relates to Autism Spectrum Disorders. Ms. Corby is actively involved in disability advocacy; (local, state and national) legislative issues and awareness; autism research, education and treatments; building community relationships and inclusion with those affected by autism and their families. She is actively involved as an advocate for her own children, as well as on behalf of others who are unable to advocate for themselves. Her vision is to provide a multi-million dollar national model for autism treatment facilities that addresses all the multi-faceted needs of those affected by autism spectrum disorders, under one roof, accessible to everyone, and at NO COST. A “St. Jude for Autism,” if you will. Ms. Corby is also a graduate of the Partner’s In Policymaking Leadership Institute, a division of the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities.
Dorene Philpot is an attorney licensed in Texas and Indiana, who took her first special education case for a child with autism two months after she began the practice of law in June 2000. After the first morning of the hearing, the school in that case agreed to provide the child with a top-notch ABA program. Thereafter, Dorene was hooked on protecting the civil rights of individuals with disabilities. Since then she has focused her practice on representing families with special needs children.
She gives presentations to state-level and national-level parent groups and other organizations on a regular basis about special education law rights of children.
Before becoming a lawyer, Dorene was a journalist for 13 years, most recently serving as an editor at The Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis News. Before that, she worked as an editor at other newspapers and magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post.
