Supporting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Psychologists from the Bradley Schools and Bradley Hospital will present a workshop on working with students with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Drawing off the evidence base and years of experience, Drs. Lamb and Lichtenstein will discuss how factors commonly associated with autism may present as behavioral and other challenges in the classroom and share tools to better understand and predict these challenges. They will help participants consider a range of strategies to both prevent such challenging behaviors and deal with them when/if they arise. Finally, the presenters will consider how adults’ own emotions may quite understandably interact with youth behavioral challenges.

Speakers

Dave Lichtenstein, PhD, is a licensed psychologist at Bradley’s Verrecchia Clinic for Children with Autism and Developmental Disabilities, and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. In addition, he serves as a consulting clinician in Bradley’s AWARE program, which provides free consultation to public schools regarding behavioral and social-emotional supports for students and schools more broadly.  Prior to serving at the Verrecchia Clinic, he worked for 13 years in the Bradley School system, a network of therapeutic school serving students with a range of academic and developmental/behavioral/psychiatric challenges. 

Alexis Lamb, PhD, is a licensed psychologist at the Bradley School in Providence, a highly specialized therapeutic school for children and adolescents with intensive developmental, psychiatric, and behavioral needs that interfere with their ability to access their education.  Dr. Lamb has worked for the Bradley Schools since 2012, primarily with students with intellectual disability and Autism.  She has recently taken on the role of Assistant Director with a focus on overseeing the programming for students with developmental disabilities who qualify for Alternate Assessment.  Dr. Lamb is also an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, where she facilitates seminars and supervises residents and post-doctoral fellows in psychology who are completing their training in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (DPHB).

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Develop tools to identify factors underlying common challenges in school for students with ASD.
• Identify two to three strategies that can address underlying factors for students with ASD.
• Articulate how adult emotion regulation can interact with students’ behavioral challenges.

Details

The target audience for this presentation is psychologists, physicians, social workers and other interested health care professionals.

This presentation has been approved for 2.75 CE hours/credits (see below).

Registration

This presentation is free of charge.

Online registration closes on Wednesday, November 20.

For refund/cancellation information, please email [email protected] or call Mayra Colon at 401-606-5753.

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Credit Details

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Rhode Island Hospital and Bradley Hospital. Rhode Island Hospital is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education.  
 
Rhode Island Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Rhode Island Hospital is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Rhode Island Hospital maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

CEUs for this event have been submitted, pending approval by the National Board for Social Work (NASW), designating this activity for a maximum of 2.75 continuing education credits for certified counselors, marriage, and family therapists.

Bradley Conference is designed to provide education for psychologists, social workers, physicians, nurses, certified counselors, speech/language and occupational therapists, teachers, milieu associates, and other professionals who work with children, adolescents, or adults. Topics address different behavioral health populations and treatment modalities and are intended to provide practical, state-of-the-art information.

Bradley Hospital’s clinical expertise, internationally renowned research, and academic affiliation with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University make the hospital a unique resource in all areas of behavioral health care. We have designed a wide range of learning experiences to provide the training that behavioral health care professionals need to stay at the forefront of their fields.

There is no known commercial support for this program.