- Faculty:
- Cara Marker Daily
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 16 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Nov 10, 2016
Description
Outline
Diagnostic Criteria
- ICD-10 updates vs DSM-5®
- Social (pragmatic) communication disorder
- Comorbid disorders
- Conceptual framework
- Screening and assessment tools
Brain Function: How the Brain with Autism Works
- Latest research in ASD brain development
- Enhanced vs impaired abilities
- Information processing: Typical brain vs brain with autism
- Key analogy to understanding autism
- Activities: Experience what it is like to have autism
Evidence-Based Interventions: Video Demonstrations
- Teach self-help skills: Hygiene, toileting, getting dressed, feeding
- Decrease aggression, self-injury, perseveration and sexual behaviors
- Functional behavioral assessments simplified
Social-Communication Interventions
- Visual systems to improve communication
- Programs to assist in generalizing social skills
- Video modeling and role play to teach social rules
- Teach pragmatic language and other abstract issues
- Social stories™, social autopsies, power cards and the hidden curriculum
- Sensory Interventions
- Appropriate self-stimulatory behaviors
- Exposure therapy
- Coping/calming techniques that reduce meltdowns
- Sensory Diets
Depression, Anxiety, and OCD Interventions
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- What to do when they become stuck on high interest areas
- Self-regulation strategies
- Tools to recognize emotions
- Relaxation techniques for stress management
Interventions for ADHD, ODD and Other Challenging Behaviors
- Staying on-task and motivation through schedules, time-lines, web diagramming
- Noncompliance and oppositional behaviors
- Reduce aggressive and disruptive behaviors by setting them up for success
- Mistakes that escalate defiant behaviors
- Overcome refusals to comply with even simple requests
Psychopharmacological Interventions
- Commonly prescribed medications
- Medication efficacy
- Risks versus benefits
Ethical Challenges in Autism
- Welfare of the individual
- Informed consent
- Use of restraints
- Time-out vs. seclusion
Faculty
Cara Marker Daily, PhD, BCBA Related seminars and products: 5
Licensed Pediatric Psychologist
Daily Behavioral Health
Cara Marker Daily, PhD, BCBA, is a licensed psychologist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over 20 years of experience providing assessment and treatment for children, adolescents and young adults with autism in the home, school, hospital and community settings. She works directly with educators, speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, BCBAs and other professionals. Dr. Daily is the president and training director of Daily Behavioral Health, a leading behavioral health provider in northeast Ohio specializing in assessment, consultation, and treatment of autism, anxiety and disruptive behavior disorders. She is the founder and executive director of the Building Behaviors Autism Center, which has received numerous grants to provide free and reduced cost applied behavioral analysis services to individuals with autism.
Dr. Daily has written several cognitive-behavioral and behavioral-based curriculums focusing on teaching daily living skills to children with autism and published a peer-reviewed journal article supporting evidence for success of these programs. She has presented nationally on topics of autism, disruptive behaviors disorders, anxiety and chronic health conditions in the pediatric population. Dr. Daily has been featured in radio, television, and other media platforms in northeast Ohio. She is the author of The Key to Autism: An Evidence-Based Workbook for Assessing and Treating Children & Adolescents (PESI, 2016).
Dr. Daily received her Ph.D. in School Psychology at the University of South Carolina, and completed an internship in Pediatric Psychology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Psychology at The Children’s Hospital at The Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Daily is a member of the Department of Pediatrics at Fairview Hospital at the Cleveland Clinic, the American Psychological Association, the Ohio Psychological Association, and the Christian Association of Psychological Studies.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cara Marker Daily is the president/training director for Daily Behavioral Health, Inc. She is the founder/executive director of the Building Behaviors Autism Center. She is a compensated consultant for Rethink Autism. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Cara Marker Daily has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
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