Presented by: Carrie Clark M.A., CCC-SLP

Description:

Children with social communication disorder or autism spectrum disorders often struggle with initiating and maintaining conversations. Join us for a webinar on teaching a child the various aspects of conversational social skills, such as initiating interactions, maintaining interactions, staying on topic, providing the right amount of information, and repairing communication breakdowns.

Learner Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to…

• Define “social communication disorder” and provide a list of conversation skills that might be challenging for this population
• Describe the steps to therapy for working on social communication problems
• List a variety of ways to teach, practice, and generalize conversational social skills
• Provide specific therapy activities/ideas that could be used for a variety of conversational social skills

Presenter:

Carrie Clark is the founder and owner of Speech and Language Kids, a website that is focused on the pediatric side of speech-language pathology. Carrie has been in the profession for 13 years and has experience working in early intervention, school early childhood education, private practice, and teletherapy. Carrie has worked with children of all ages and of all ability levels. Carrie’s super power is taking complex topics and breaking them down into easy-to-follow step-by-step plans. She also loves the challenge of trying to solve a problem.

Through her membership program, The Speech and Language Kids Hub, Carrie is able to help thousands of speech-language pathologists by digging through the research on various speech-language pathology topics or therapies and creating quick and simple resources that break it all down. Carrie and her team further support their members by answering questions in the exclusive member groups and brainstorming ideas and solutions for tough cases and situations.