Day 2 of Strengths-Based Practices in Action: Supporting Your Autistic Clients to Learn, Play & Thrive
This is the second day of our two-day conference option. Day Two builds on the Day One content, but goes deeper into the process of strengths-based therapy and how to create and use meaningful visual supports in learning activities, daily routines, schedules, and community outings. Day Two is typically seven contact hours, but can be shortened as needed.
What You'll Learn
Therapy Process
Get past feeling “stuck” and not knowing where to start with helping your clients meet their goals. Learn how to use informal assessment, individualized structure, visual instructions, and evidence-based teaching strategies to guide your therapy process from assessment through goal mastery and generalization.
We’ll also dive into how to build in supports based on your clients’ preferred social play level and how to support their learning using play materials, without asking them to play less autistically.
Strengths-Based Visual Supports
Schedules
Stop wasting your limited time making schedules that your clients don’t understand or use. You’ll learn how to create truly individualized schedules that will reduce transition battles and support your Autistic clients even when schedules unexpectedly change.
To Do Lists
Move beyond giving constant redirections and reminders that leave you feeling ineffective and make your clients frustrated and confused. You’ll master a method for creating visual to-do-lists that even your most concrete (or youngest) clients will understand. These visual to-do lists will keep your kids at the table for learning, increase independence in self-care skills, and provide new opportunities for authentic engagement in daily routine
Community Integration
Get past your fears of moving your intervention to the community, where real life happens! Learn exactly how to bring it all together and help your clients succeed out in the community with a series of participatory case studies from early intervention through adolescence.
This interactive training will
transform your treatment planning process
This course is
for you if...
- You want a clear, practical process for moving from informal assessment to meaningful intervention.
- You’re tired of relying on constant verbal prompts, redirection, or adult support to help your clients get through everyday routines.
- You want to create visual supports that your clients actually understand and use - not just pretty schedules that end up in a drawer.
- You want to help your clients become more flexible without using compliance-based strategies or forcing them to “just deal with” unexpected changes
- You want practical tools you can use immediately with clients across early intervention, school, clinic, and community settings.
- You want to leave the training knowing not just what to do, but how to individualize it for the child in front of you.
Testimonials
Meg brought incredible warmth and connection to her presentation. Her course on building on the strengths of the autistic client provided immediate, real-world value that I can start implementing right away. She makes comlex, important topics totally engaging and actionable. Thank you, WYOTA for bringing Wyoming such an amazing conference!
Meg is a great presenter! It was nice to attend a conference where I learned actual strategies I could take back to work with me.
This is a career and practice changing course.
I can’t really put into words how pivotal this course was for me. I had always wanted to implement better neurodiverse affirming care but I never felt like I had the foundation or tools to actually do that. I often felt like what I was doing for my clients wasn’t actually helping. Taking this course has given me a process for how to provide strengths based strategies and care. Meg has given me more confidence and more excitement to continue my work as an OT! I’m so thankful and I learned so much!
This is the most current and applicable training that I’ve found as a SLP in the last 20 years.
I am incredibly thankful for discovering this course. It has equipped me with practical, evidence-based methods to truly understand and support autistic clients. I now feel more confident in conducting informal assessments and implementing neurodiversity-affirming interventions for my clients and their families. A heartfelt thank you to Meg and the entire LPT team! You have not only transformed my practice but also my life and the lives of my clients. More power to you all!
Course Objectives
- Analyze a child’s learning needs using a process of informal assessment and utilize this understanding to plan meaningful learning activities and visual instructions
- Apply two or more teaching strategies that promote flexibility and generalizing for clients after task is mastered
- Plan a schedule for a client, including instructions at the appropriate level (object, photograph, symbolic picture, picture & word, or written) , a method for the child to use the schedule (take and use, take and match, mark off, move to finished), and at least two concrete ways that the schedule can support a child in adapting to change
- Generate an individualized visual to-do list for table-top learning and for self-care routines
- Synthesize and apply your knowledge of strengths-based approaches to create effective support plans for Autistic clients going out into the community