Who should attend?
This free webinar is for early intervention providers, interdisciplinary healthcare providers, home visitors, and other team members working with young children and their families in early intervention systems or early childhood education. This webinar series is a companion to our Autism Navigator online early intervention courses at the Knowledge & Skills and Mastery Level. To learn more about our online courses, visit our Courses page.
What will we cover?
The Autism Navigator team will share information about the evidence-based Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model that coaches parents to support their child’s learning in everyday activities. We will cover the lens of Active Engagement, the layer cake of Transactional Supports and our coaching model. Participants will see video illustrations of active ingredients of the model with families of infants and toddlers with ASD or early signs of autism.
Coaching can provide families the guidance they need to support their child’s learning right from their own home in activities that they do every day. The ESI model can be done through mobile coaching (a.k.a. working remotely, telepractice, or video conferencing), which saves travel time for providers, keeps services going when face-to-face coaching sessions may not be possible, and provides services in the natural environment.
This monthly series will cover these topics:
- January
- Building Consensus with Families: Moving Up the Coaching Arrow
- February
- Addressing Challenging Behavior: How to Blend the ESI Layer Cake of Supports with Positive Behavior Support
- March
- Ensuring Intensity: Deliberate Practice to Improve Caregiver Capacity across Everyday Activities
- April
- Tailoring Your Coaching Strategies to Promote Caregiver Independence
- May
- Addressing Challenging Behavior: Key Role of Emotional Regulation
- June
- Gaining Momentum and Knowing When to Move Ahead: Making Coaching Adjustments in the Moment
- July
- Holiday
- August
- Everything Grows out of Productive Roles in Everyday Activities
- September
- Building Consensus with Families: Setting the Stage for Coaching
- October
- Ensuring Intensity: Deliberate Practice to Improve Active Engagement across Everyday Activities
- November
- Ensuring Intensity: Deliberate Practice to Improve Transactional Supports across Everyday Activities
- December
- Holiday
The ESI model uses early intervention providers to coach parents of young children with ASD (or other DD) how to embed evidence-based strategies to support social communication, language, play, and adaptive behaviors in everyday activities to achieve the intensity of intervention needed to improve outcomes for children with ASD. ESI is a naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) that has demonstrated efficacy in a multisite randomized controlled trial (RCT) for children diagnosed with ASD by 18 months. Children showed improved outcomes after 9 months of treatment based on standardized measures of social communication, developmental functioning, and adaptive behavior. ESI was designed to incorporate the National Research Council recommendations within the context of a family-centered, natural-environments approach, which is considered recommended practice for delivery of IDEA Part C services. We will watch video clips together from face-to-face and mobile coaching intervention sessions to illustrate the ESI model and sharpen your observation skills.
When is this scheduled?
This webinar series covers 6 monthly topics and is repeated twice a year: January to June and July to December.
- Day: 3rd Tuesday of each month
- Time: 12:00 to 1:30pm (Eastern Time)
How do I register?
The ESI Coaching monthly webinar series is a recurring Zoom webinar. You only need to register once for this webinar series.
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You must register to participate. You will see the specific dates for each series on the Registration page. Once you register, you will receive email reminders for each webinar in the series. Please note: The use of AI note-taking or recording products violates our Terms of Use and is strictly prohibited during our webinars.
Why is attending important?
By attending, you are joining a community of learners watching videos together and sharing their experiences, questions, and encouragement. You will receive a certificate of attendance. We cannot record our webinars because we show photos and videos of our families, so make sure to attend. Attendance certificates are emailed within two weeks of each webinar.
How do I get to the Feedback Survey and Attendance Certificate Request Form?
Links to each are below.
Feedback SurveyRequest an Attendance Certificate
Where is the Resources Page for this webinar?
Make sure to visit the Coaching Families of Young Children with ASD Using the Early Social Interaction (ESI) Model Resources page we created for you. You will find related research articles and other resources. After you attend the webinar, please give us feedback by using the Feedback Survey on the Resources Page.
Coaching with ESI Resources
Hosts for this Webinar from the Florida State University (FSU) Autism Institute
- Amy M Wetherby, PhD, CCC-SLP • Distinguished Research Professor, College of Medicine, Florida State University; Director, FSU Autism Institute
- Renee Daly Holland, MS, CCC-SLP • Assistant Director of Early Intervention Services Research, FSU Autism Institute
- Joy Moore, MS, CCC-SLP • Autism Navigator Master Coach and Global Trainer, FSU Autism Institute
- Patricia Armstrong, MSW • Autism Navigator Master Coach and Global Trainer, FSU Autism Institute