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Together we will
transform your practice

MODULE 1: A Strengths-Based Approach to Autism & Behavior

Never again write generic interventions that just don’t work. First, you’ll go deep into autism learning styles based on the latest research. This will help you move past outdated, deficits-based ideas about autism, and feel confident in your expertise. Then, with this foundation, you’ll learn a concrete process that will allow you to generate relevant, effective, and strengths-based interventions every time.
MODULE 2: 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 autism teaching strategies to guide your therapy process from assessment through goal mastery and generalization.
MODULE 3: Making 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 increase flexibility.
MODULE 4: Visual To-Do Lists & Self-Care Skills

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 social engagement and play.
MODULE 5: Play & Leisure

You know play and leisure are so important, but you often feel stuck knowing where to start or how to really explore new ways to play with your clients. Learn a fun, effective process for presenting new play activities and seeing if they become true play for your clients.
MODULE 6: 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.
This course is
actionable and concrete.

You’ll learn how to confidently help your clients meet their goals without ever using rewards or other compliance-based strategies in your practice. It’s all about understanding how autistic* people think and learn and shaping our interventions to reflect respect for their strengths and how they think and learn.
You’ll develop intervention plans you can apply in your practice right away.
*identity-first language used as it’s the preference of the autistic community

Investment

$389 for over 7.5 recorded hours packed full of actionable content. We also offer payment breakdown to 3 payments of $130.

Access

This course is entirely self-paced. Once you register, you’ll have access for 12 months to complete on your own time.

Continuing Education

This course is registered for .95 AOTA CEUs (9.5 contact hours) & is in the registration process for .95 ASHA CEUs (available beginning 5/27/21).

FAQs

Information about completion requirements, accommodations, and more can be found in the FAQs.
The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism is
for you if…

- You currently work with neurodivergent clients on functional daily skills
- You feel bored and ineffective using the same interventions over and over again
- You feel guilty sending the kids back to class or back home knowing that you weren’t as effective as you could have been
- You want to feel confident in shaping your interventions based on autistic strengths
- You are ready to let go of compliance-based approaches like withholding interests, hand-over-hand, and using reinforcers
Meet your
Instructors

Kate McLaughlin

Kate McLaughlin
CCC-SLP

FINANCIAL: Kate receives commission from Learn Play Thrive, LLC for the sale of Authentic AAC, the SLP Neurodiversity Summit, and the OT Neurodiversity Summit. Kate is the owner of AAC Services of CT, LLC and receives a salary. She is also owner of The AAC Coach, LLC and receives compensation for speaking and coaching services.
NON-FINANCIAL: Kate has friends and colleagues who are autistic.
V Tisi

V Tisi
CCC-SLP

FINANCIAL: V receives a commission from Learn Play Thrive, LLC for the OT Neurodiversity Summit and the SLP Neurodiversity Summit. V owns The Speechologist and receives compensation for their work.. V is employed part-time by San Francisco State University and receives a salary for teaching, including a course on Cultural Responsiveness in Speech, Language, Hearing Sciences that includes topics of anti-racism and anti-ableism. V is contracted with The Informed SLP and receives a fee for their work.
NON-FINANCIAL: V runs Speechologist accounts on various social media outlets, is a co-founder and volunteer for SLPs of Color 501(c)(3), and identifies as an Asian-Latiné Autistic person. V is Autistic and has friends and colleagues who are Autistic.
Lydia X. Z. Brown

Lydia X. Z. Brown
Esq.

FINANCIAL: Lydia receives a salary from the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network, Georgetown University (including the federally-funded University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities), and American University. Lydia is also the owner/principal of an independent consulting firm, Mycelia Groundwork LLC and receives compensation for their work.
NON-FINANCIAL: Lydia is an unpaid executive director of the Autistic People of Color Fund. They are also currently a candidate in a partisan election for the Maryland House of Delegates, running as a Democrat. Lydia is autistic and has friends and colleagues who are autistic, as well as being a caregiver/support person to other autistic people.
Caroline Musselwhite

Caroline Musselwhite
CCC-SLP

FINANCIAL: Caroline receives royalty for the sale of products from Building Wings and the Attainment Company. She is the author of numerous books on Teachers Pay Teachers and receives royalty for their sale.
Kelly Mahler

Kelly Mahler
OTR/L

FINANCIAL: Kelly receives commission from Learn Play Thrive, LLC for the sale of the SLP Neurodiversity Summit and the OT Neurodiversity Summit. Kelly is owner of Mahler OT services and receives compensation for speaking services as well as the sales of her self-published resources.
NON-FINANCIAL: Kelly has friends, family members, and colleagues who are autistic.
Kim Clairy

Kim Clairy
OTR/L

FINANCIAL: Kim receives commission from Learn Play Thrive, LLC for the sale of the SLP Neurodiversity Summit and the OT Neurodiversity Summit.
NON-FINANCIAL: Kim is autistic and has friends and colleagues who are autistic.

















Please note: disclosure statements are contained in the Bio page for each speaker. Click on "READ BIO" above to review the disclosures.

I feel confident that it will change your practice.
– Meg Proctor, Founder of Learn Play Thrive
Full Course Objectives

MODULE 1: A Strengths-Based Approach to Autism & Behavior
1 hour 41 minutes

Learn how to confidently and clearly understand behaviors and plan interventions based on clients’ strengths.
- Develop six or more specific hypotheses about how a child’s behavior may be related to autism learning styles
- Generate six or more intervention strategies based on specific client’s strengths
MODULE 2: The Process of Autism-Specific Therapy
1 hour 37 minutes

Get un-stuck and become more effective in your therapy process.
- Analyze a child’s learning needs using a process of informal assessment
- Analyze client’s learning style 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
MODULE 3: Making Schedules
51 minutes

Stop wasting time making schedules that just don’t work.
- Apply the interpreting behaviors process and an understanding of autism learning styles to identify three reasons why transitions may be hard for your clients with autism
- Analyze a client’s learning style to determine what type of schedule (object, photograph, symbolic picture, picture & word, or written) will be most meaningful to them
- 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 be used to promote flexibility
MODULE 4: Creating Visual To-Do Lists for Table Activities & Daily Living Skills
57 minutes

Get your kids’ engagement so that you can confidently teach.
- Apply the interpreting behaviors process and an understanding of autism learning styles to identify three reasons why kids on the spectrum may have difficulty with adult-directed activities
- Generate an individualized visual to-do list for table-top learning and for self-care routines
- Create a plan for teaching using to-do lists that incorporates two or more strategies to promote flexibility and generalizing
MODULE 5: Exploring Play & Leisure
2 hours 11 minutes

Get crystal clear on how to teach this essential and challenging skill.
- Analyze typical play environments to identify 2 barriers to play and leisure experienced by kids on the autism spectrum
- Identify a child’s level of mastery and emerging skill level for both social play and play skills
- Generate treatment plans that utilize one or more naturalistic strategies combined with one or more examples of structure and visual instructions
MODULE 6: Community Integration
14 minutes + your final case study

Ditch your fears of taking intervention out into the real world.
- Synthesize and apply your knowledge across all modules to create intervention plans for clients going out into the community that include at least 3 strategies from the course
Frequently Asked Questions

In each module I help you tailor the interventions to your client’s age and developmental level. This course is appropriate for professionals working with kids from early intervention through adolescence.
Each module includes lecture, slides, videos, case studies, and an opportunity for you to apply your knowledge.
Yes! The course is self-paced and you have six months to complete it on your own time.
Yes! If 3 or more people from your company plan to enroll email me the names of everyone enrolling at [email protected] and I’ll provide a coupon code. It’s 15% for 3 registrants, 20% off for 4 or more, and 30% off for 7 or more.
Yes! One full scholarship is awarded each enrollment period to an OT from an under-resourced country. Contact [email protected] to learn more.
If you buy from this special offer page before the timer ends, you will have one year to complete the course.
Full refunds are provided within 30 days of purchase if no more than 3 modules have been completed. Email [email protected] to request a refund. Since this is a self-paced course, there is no option to cancel once the 30 day / 3 module limit has been exceeded. If for any reason the course is canceled by the provider before your registration period has expired, you will receive a full refund.
All videos in this course have closed captions that can be turned on or off. If you have other special learning needs, please email [email protected] before registering. Accommodations will be made to support learners in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act.
You can send an email to [email protected]
Why enroll today?

Group Discounts
We are happy to offer a discount for your group! Email your list of participants to [email protected] to receive a coupon code.
• 3 participants: 15% off
• 4+ participants: 20% off
• 7+ participants: 30% off
• 50+ participants: please inquire
Parent / Teacher Handouts
Understanding the content is one thing but supporting your parents and teachers can be a whole different job! I’ve got you there too. Now when you enroll you’ll get a digital catalog of handouts to explain the most important topics to your clients’ caregivers.
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
I think you’ll love it. But take 30 days to complete up to three modules. If it’s not what you’d hoped, you get your money back.
Private Community Forum
Gain confidence with a real community behind you. During your enrollment, you'll get access to an exclusive group to share the optional work you complete in the course and collaborate with Meg and other therapists on the same learning journey.
Continuing Education Credit
Receive 9.5 hours of continuing education credit through a self-paced online course that you can revisit again and again to feel totally confident in your ability to synthesize and apply the new strategies.

Sometimes when you work with neurodivergent kids, you feel like you’re trying the same ineffective strategies over and over. This takes a huge hit on your confidence.

But with The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism you will reclaim your enthusiasm and show up more equipped to help your autistic clients.
This course will be available for ASHA CEUs until May 27, 2026, at which point Learn Play Thrive will apply for re-registration.
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
ASHA CE Provider approval and use of the Brand Block does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products or clinical procedures.