Session Schedule:
- 10:00 am –12:00 pm – Session 1
- 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm – Lunch Break
- 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm – Session 2
- 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Session 3
Building Social Relationships through Evidence Based Social Skills Programming for Students on the Autism Spectrum
Featured Speaker — Scott Bellini, PhD
The workshop will provide an overview of the Building Social Relationships (BSR) program, a social skills instructional model developed by Dr. Bellini. The workshop integrates research on social-emotional functioning with effective strategies for teaching social skills to children and adolescents on the autism spectrum. The BSR program provides a systematic and comprehensive framework to guide educators and other practitioners in the development and implementation of effective social skills programming.
Learner objectives:
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
- Describe social and emotional functioning
- Explain the relationship between social skill deficits and social anxiety
- Describe skills necessary to assess social functioning
- Differentiate between skill acquisition versus performance deficits
- List evidence-based social skill strategies
- Implement social skills strategies
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