Professional Development

When children persistently use concerning behavior, it can be a strong indicator that they do not have the skills to manage their big emotions and are unable to self-regulate. This webinar will describe how brain responses and concerning behavior are linked to self-regulation and provide strategies staff can use to refuel children’s regulation tanks and improve self-regulation skills.

Tantrums and meltdowns and whining, oh my! Many times, these behaviors are signs that kids are working on developing their self-regulation skills. In this webinar, we’ll present strategies you can use to teach children self-regulation and decrease some behaviors that can be difficult to redirect.

Adolescence can be a tricky time. As middle schoolers and teens navigate these years, their self-regulation skills come into play while they try to figure out if a risk is worth the reward. In this session, we'll discuss how to help youth refine their self-regulation skills so they can make positive decisions.

Have you ever attended a training, gotten excited about trying something new you learned, then gone back to your usual practices the next day? It happens to all of us. In this session, we will present strategies to convert the learning you do in a training to growth in your disability inclusion and behavior support practices.

In order to grow, you need to know where you’re starting. In this webinar, we will discuss simple ways to assess your strengths and uncover opportunities for growth with the goal of improving practices to support children and youth.

Responding to children and youth who are experiencing an emotional crisis is hard! To be effective, you need to recognize your triggers and be prepared to deploy self-regulation skills. In this webinar, we will discuss how to harness the power of self-reflection and use self-regulation to more effectively help children and youth de-escalate.

Engaging school age youth in program activities can be challenging. If a child has a disability, providers must be sure the child has the skills and tools to meaningfully participate in the activity. This eLearning course will walk you through the steps of planning successful activities and how to make accommodations to meet the needs of all children.

This webinar will help providers/caregivers recognize and be able to support those hard to understand children many of whom have immature sensory processing. Specific activities and strategies will be shared that can be used effectively with ALL children while specifically meeting the needs of children with sensory processing challenges.

As tweens and teens go through dramatic growth transformations, it’s typical for them to change from being happy to sad or from feeling smart to feeling stupid. The tweens and teens stage of life is filled with worry about personal traits that others hardly notice and seem overly dramatic. Our first step is to identify and define the difference between a tween and a teen. The webinar will provide identified social-emotional barriers that staff may face when working with tweens and teens.

This webinar will introduce participants to a different perspective regarding autism. We will explore the connections between motor challenges and social-emotional development. Additionally, we will review emerging views that consider the symptoms of sensory and movement differences and how support for children and youth with autism may shift with this view.