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Treatment Efficacy and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Presenter	Course	Action
Lynne Hewitt	Treatment Efficacy in Autism Spectrum Disorders CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.1 Intermediate, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process - Outcomes; NBCOT/1.25 Intermediate Text Course: #1072 · Duration: 1 hour While the importance of evidence-based practices is acknowledged by practitioners, it is not easy to sort through competing claims. This update on recent treatment research in ASD will focus on identifying current popular approaches that have evidence, and at what level.	Register Now!

June 8, 2011

This text-based course is a written transcript of the course, “Treatment Efficacy and Autism Spectrum Disorder”, presented on March 31, 2011 by Lynne Hewitt.

>> Amy Hansen: Welcome to today's expert e-seminar entitled “Treatment Efficacy and Autism Spectrum Disorders” presented by Dr. Lynne Hewitt. Lynne Hewitt is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication Disorders at Bowling Green State University. She is a licensed and certified speech language pathologist and researcher. Her primary research interests include language and communication in autism spectrum disorders, intervention for developmental language disorders, pragmatics and assessment. She has served as an Associate Editor of the journal, Language, Speech and Hearing Services in the Schools and is Division Coordinator for Special Interest Division 1 of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, Language, Learning and Education. She was topic coordinator for autism for the ASHA annual meeting in 2009. In 2008 she was an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where she taught an upper division seminar on autism. Dr. Hewitt frequently presents at national and international meetings on topics related to her research and clinical interests. So welcome, Dr. Hewitt. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us today.

>> Dr. Hewitt: Well, thank you very much for that introduction. That's very kind and I'm very delighted to be here today to talk about a topic that's near and dear to my heart, which is providing the very best treatment that we can for children and adults with autism spectrum disorders. Today we're going to focus more on children than adults, and do that in a way that is really based in the science.

Evidence and its Detractors

I'd like to just start out today by talking a little bit about how research takes place and how it's very difficult to have the evidence that we need for a lot of things, and that there are so many ideas out there. On my very first slide here I'm just going to pick one at random.

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Lynne Hewitt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP

Lynne Hewitt is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Communication Disorders at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She has taught at BGSU since 1999, and previously taught at the Pennsylvania State University. Her undergraduate education was in English and linguistics at Cornell University, and she received her Master's and Ph.D. in Communicative Disorders and Sciences from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech language pathology from the American Speech Language Hearing Association, and also has Ohio state licensure. She is a Board Recognized Specialist in Child Language. Her research interests are in child language development and disorders, with a particular interest in language assessment, pragmatic language development, and autism.

Categories: Pediatrics, Autism Spectrum

Presenter	Course	Action
Donna S. Murray	Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.15 Introductory, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process - Evaluation; NBCOT/1.88 Beginner Recorded Course: #1037 · Duration: 1.5 hours The session will assist the therapist in better understanding components of a multidisciplinary evaluation of children with ASD.	Register Now!
Lynne Hewitt	Treatment Efficacy in Autism Spectrum Disorders CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.1 Intermediate, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process - Outcomes; NBCOT/1.25 Intermediate Recorded Course: #1071 · Duration: 1 hour While the importance of evidence-based practices is acknowledged by practitioners, it is not easy to sort through competing claims. This update on recent treatment research in ASD will focus on identifying current popular approaches that have evidence, and at what level.	Register Now!
Emily Rubin	Emotional Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.1 Introductory, Category 1: Domain of OT - Performance Skills; NBCOT/1.25 Beginner Recorded Course: #1034 · Duration: 1 hour This course will emphasize the critical role of emotional regulation in facilitating social and communicative competence in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Typical developmental sequences in emotional regulation will be reviewed along with the core developmental challenges in emotional regulation that are common in children with ASD. Practical supports to prevent behaviors that interfere with communication and social engagement during transitions, task engagement and emotional expression will then be highlighted.	Register Now!
Moira Lewis	Behavioral Strategies within Social Skills Intervention: Developing Treatment Plans & Goals CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.1 Introductory, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process - Intervention; NBCOT/1.25 Beginner Recorded Course: #1038 · Duration: 1 hour Social Skills programs are increasingly becoming a widely used component of intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within school and clinical settings. This course is intended to highlight the importance and relevance of applying behaviorally-based techniques and goals within the context of a group-based social skills intervention program for students with ASD.	Register Now!
Carol Westby	Theory of Mind: Implications for Development of Social and Academic Skills CEUs/PDUs Offered: AOTA/0.2 Introductory, Category 1: Domain of OT - Performance Skills; NBCOT/2.5 Beginner Recorded Course: #1039 · Duration: 2 hours *THIS COURSE HAS MANY VIDEOS CLIPS. PLEASE BE SURE TO BE USING A HIGH SPEED CONNECTION AND THAT ALL OF YOUR OTHER WEB BASED APPS AND WINDOWS ARE CLOSED. THANKS Theory of mind (ToM) deficits occur not only in children with autism spectrum disorders, but also in many children who have a variety of language impairments. This presentation will describe the development of ToM, types of ToM, and strategies for assessing ToM. The role of ToM in social and academic skills will be explained and suggestions will be given for promoting the types of ToM that underlie social and academic skills.	Register Now!

Treatment Efficacy and Autism Spectrum Disorders

June 8, 2011

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