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THE VERY NEW 2008 SOCIAL STORIES 10.1 TRAINING WITH CAROL GRAY!
Social Stories 10.1 and Comic Strip Conversations / Carol Gray makes a rare appearance in the United Kingdom with the first workshop on Social Stories 10.1 (the revised, updated, and expanded version of Social Stories 10.0)
June 9th-10th 2008
Two – Day Seminar/Workshop led by Carol Gray, President, The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding
The Society for the Autistically Handicapped are pleased to present this workshop in association with Carol Gray Presentations & Workshops
Note, Times and content may change at the directors discretion.
This hands-on two-day workshop uses lecture, demonstration, discussion, activities and practice of new skills to teach the elements of the social understanding interventions developed by Carol Gray.
Most notably, participants will be the first to be trained in Social Stories 10.1, the first major revision of (the previous) Social Stories 10.0. The Social Storiesä 10.1 training has many new features, including a more detailed rationale, discussion of Social Storyä research and evidence-based practice, the introduction of Story templates, the positive past tense, Sentences that Coach, and anexpanded emphasis on gathering information for a Social Storyä, Story format, and emotional and social safety.
New insights into Comic Strip Conversations, the cousin approach of Social Storiesä, will also be shared along with a variety of new ideas to model, foster and support social learning.
By the close of this exciting, fun, and fast paced workshop, participants will leave with an updated and more detailed understanding of Social Storiesä and Comic Strip Conversations, new ideas to model and teach social understanding concepts and skills at home and school, and a wealth of practical new ideas. Concepts and skills will be applicable for students ages 2-Adult.
Participants will be able to:
Identify the rationale for the social understanding approaches, in light of new research and insight
Describe a brief history of the Social Storyä approach, including:
a) identification of the most frequent Social Storyä myths and misconceptions,
b) an explanation of the differences between Social Storiesä 10.0 and Social Storiesä 10.1, and
c) the significance and implications of Social Stories 10.1 to the increasing numbers of authors and audiences of Social StoriesäWrite a Social Storyä according to Social Storiesä 10.1, the newly updated, reorganized, and expanded criteria
Write a Social Storyä’from scratch” for a specific person with ASD & topic
Explain how Social Storiesä can be developed to encourage categorization and generalization, and specially designed to address a variety of specific concerns
Participate in the implementation of a Comic Strip Conversation
Determine whether a Social Storyä, Comic Strip Conversation, or both is the most desirable intervention for a variety of situations
Define paradigm, and describe both its positive and negative impact in educational practice
Define Social Curiosity and the five effective educational practices of Surthrivalä
Apply “what we have learned” from Social Storiesä in the last seventeen years to how we think about, and respond to, people with ASD.
Training Opportunities for Teachers and Other Professionals of Autistic and Related Communication Handicapped Children (2 Day Work-shops)
2008 Cost: £260.00
Note, Times and content may change at the directors discretion.
Start time 9.00 am. End Approx. 4.45 pm,
Schedule:
DAY ONE & TWO
Start time: 9am-4:45pm
10:20 – 10:40 BREAK
Noon – 1:00 LUNCH
3:00 – 3:20 BREAK
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CAROL GRAY, Dir.
Is the Director of The Gray Centre for Social Learning and Understanding, and for the last twenty years has served as a Consultant to Students with Autism for Jenison Public Schools in Jenison, Michigan, in the United States. She has developed several strategies to teach social concepts and skills to children with ASD, and initiated the term “…social understanding” to bring attention to the curriculum that is pre-requisite to teaching social skills. Carol developed the use of Social Stories in 1991, and the Comic Strip Conversations approach shortly thereafter. Each year, Carol conducts several presentations and workshops throughout the United States and in other countries. She is the recipient of the Barbara Lipinski Award for her international contribution to the welfare and education of children with autism spectrum disorders.
Whitney Mitchell Krusniak, M.Ed.
Has been working with students and families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders since 1995. Prior to graduating from Western Michigan University ’s Bachelor of Science program in 2000, she worked as a social worker for Family and Children Services ( Kalamazoo , MI ) as a program facilitator for children with Developmental Disabilities, Emotional Impairments and ASD. Ms. Mitchell-Krusniak was previously employed as a classroom teacher for the Oakland Schools Autism Program and is currently servicing children with ASD as a Teacher Consultant for the Jenison Public School District and the Ottawa Area Intermediate (MI). Ms. Mitchell-Krusniak completed her Master’s Degree in Special Education Administration from Grand Valley State University in 2004.
Venue: KLV Kettering Conference Leisure Village, Thurston Drive, Kettering, Northants. UK
FEES include light buffet lunch each day and am/pm. refreshments. Coffee/tea on arrival.
If you wish to attend, please complete and return the
application form, together with a cheque (or to be invoiced to?) made payable to S.F.T.A.H.:
Autism Independent UK. 199/203 BLANDFORD AVENUE KETTERING, NORTHANTS NN16 9AT
TEL. OR FAX: 01536 523274
Upon receipt of your application and/or payment you will be sent further literature concerning the seminar, together with confirmation of your booking.
This seminar/Work-shop is ideal for: Preschool through adult, focusing on mid to higher-functioning students, with modification for those with more severe impairments.
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This hands-on two-day workshop uses lecture, demonstration, discussion, activities and practice of new skills to teach the elements of the social understanding interventions developed by Carol Gray. 
