The MyVoice Autism Webinar 6/5/13: Social Communication & Autism: Assessment & Treatment Using Two ios Apps

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1 The MyVoice Autism Webinar 6/5/13: Social Communication & Autism: Assessment & Treatment Using Two ios Apps Penina Rybak Alex Levy CEO & Lead Designer, MyVoice CEO, Socially Speaking MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH Speech-Language Pathologist & Educational Technology Consultant Tony Gross Community Director, MyVoice

2 3.5 Million Kids and Adults in North America Have Major Communication Disabilities... Children with Autism Comprise Part of This Population... Social Communication Disabilities are Associated With: Poorer Educational Outcomes Social Isolation & Emotional Distress Worse Job Prospects in Adulthood Early Detection/Remediation is KEY!

3 RocketKeys TalkRocket Go Today s Webinar Features TalkRocket Go

4 TalkRocket Go The amazingly personal communication aid by

5 Socially Speaking Social Skills Assessment & Treatment Protocol: Early Detection by Socially Speaking, LLC.

6 "Treatment of Social Communication Deficits in Young Children with Autism " by Penina Rybak MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH, CEO Socially Speaking LLC, Creator of the Socially Speaking App for ipad

7 Penina s Contact Information: Penina.sociallyspeaking@gmail.com Website: Follow Me on Facebook & Google+: Socially Speaking LLC YouTube Channel: socialslp Pinterest: Pinterest.com/Peninaslp LinkedIn: Penina Rybak

8 Overall Goals of Treatment and Today's Webinar- Use Both Apps to: Identify Kids at risk for social communication issues Determine starting points of remediation Formulate and collaboratively plan goals for treatment and IEP documentation People in the World of Education Must Learn About & Integrate Best Practices with Technology 8

9 Identify kids at risk for social communication issues using the Socially Speaking App for ipad... The only digital protocol that contains developmental, methodical, and practical, play based assessment checklists Checklists that are user friendly for entire team to complete and customize during the evaluation process Checklists that can be used to generate treatment goals and update baseline data repeatedly, over time, as needed

10 Determine starting points of remediation using the Socially Speaking AND the Talk Rocket Go App... The roots of social communication deficits: disorientation to person, place, and time...

11 Determine starting points of remediation using the Talk Rocket Go App... Use TalkRocket Go to increase orientation to person, by facilitating Joint Attention, Object Permanence, and Communicative Intent/Manding (requests): address beginning receptive & expressive language through the AAC features

12 Determine starting points of remediation using the Talk Rocket Go App... Use TalkRocket Go to increase orientation to place, by facilitating the ability to "live in the moment" and develop comprehension of spatial relationships and episodic memory for nouns and adjectives, especially vocabulary of feelings, using the customizable audio/visual features

13 Determine starting points of remediation using the Talk Rocket Go App... Use Talk Rocket Go to increase orientation to time, by facilitating the concept of a "body clock" i.e. self regulation i.e. Behavior Management, by improving comprehension and use of verbs for transitioning and sequencing skills, through the portrait mode (vertical) visual display features. Create relevant, meaningful, and therefore motivating Sequencing Task Organizers, Visual Schedules, Reinforcer Rosters, and even comic strip style Social Stories!

14 Formulate and collaboratively plan goals for treatment and IEP documentation using the Socially Speaking App Assess levels of functioning and cross reference with findings from rest of the team Generate a fully customizable lesson plan template with space for listing goals & entering photos of materials to use in treatment, such as the TalkRocket Go App and specific reinforcers appealing to that child's learning style Export content of entire evaluation, as a PDF: for later reference, filing in school etc., and compliance with HIPPA regulations 14

15 For more information... MyVoiceAAC.com/TalkRocket More Webinars: MyVoiceAAC.com/Webinars SociallySpeakingLLC.com LinkedIn: Penina Rybak YouTube: socialslp Pinterest.com/Peninaslp Google+, Facebook: Socially Speaking LLC