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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 This will help you move past outdated, deficits-based ideas about autism, and feel confident in your expertise.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 6 months to complete on your own time.
Continuing Education
This course is registered for .95 AOTA CEUs (9.5 contact hours) & .95 ASHA CEUs.
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
Meg Proctor
Meg Proctor
M.S., OTR/L
Meg has worked in early intervention, schools, and clinics. She is a former faculty member of the TEACCH® Autism program, and she is the host of the Two Sides of the Spectrum Podcast, where she interviews autistic adults and other professionals striving to change therapy practice.
She is the primary instructor in The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism, where she fills up the toolboxes of OTs and SLPs with strengths-based strategies to use in their work. Meg also teaches Module 1 of the LPT Approach to Autism as a stand-alone live course, A Strengths-Based Approach to Autism.
*We use identity-first language as it’s the preference of most autistic adults and helps to reduce stigma.
FINANCIAL: Meg is the owner of Learn Play Thrive and receives a salary.
NON-FINANCIAL: Meg has friends and colleagues who are autistic.
Rachel Dorsey
Rachel Dorsey
M.S., CCC-SLP
Rachel holds a Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked in school, clinic, and community-based settings with children and adolescents of all ages.
FINANCIAL: Rachel was paid a speaking fee for her contribution to The Learn Play Thrive Approach to Autism. Rachel receives commission from her course, Goal Writing for Autistic Students, for the OT Neurodiversity Summit and for the SLP Neurodiversity Summit from Learn Play Thrive. Rachel is the owner of Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC and receives a salary.
NON-FINANCIAL: Rachel is autistic and has friends and family members who are autistic.
Sarah Selvaggi-Hernandez
Sarah Selvaggi-Hernandez
MOT, OTR/L
Sarah’s previous professional experience includes assistant professor of pediatrics and mental health at Bay Path University, early intervention therapist in Springfield, MA, and occupational therapist at psychiatric residential treatment facility in East Windsor, CT. She now works as a full-time autistic advocate and sensory consultant. Sarah and her husband Jeremy also served as a therapeutic foster family for the State of Connecticut for nearly twenty years, and continue to provide therapeutic respite care for autistic children. Sarah can be found happy-flapping with her family in Enfield, CT.
FINANCIAL: Sarah was paid a speaking fee for her contribution to the LPT Approach to Autism. She receives commission for the sales of Ethics & Neurodiversity: Let’s Talk Sex. Sarah is the author of a book, Melt Like Ice Cream, for which she receives royalties. She is also owner of Living Sensory Wellness, Inc. and receives compensation for consultation services.
NON-FINANCIAL: Sarah is autistic and has friends and family members who are autistic. Sarah is an unpaid advisory board member for NeuroClastic, Inc. and Disability Rights Connecticut.
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 admin@learnplaythrive.com 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.
We offer full scholarships to therapists from under-resourced countries.
In order to get a certificate of completion, you must watch all of the video modules, complete the activities within the modules, and pass a quiz at the end of the course with 80% accuracy. Multiple attempts at the quiz are allowed. Only learners who complete the course and the quiz will receive a certificate.
You will have 6 months access to the course.
Full refunds are provided within 30 days of purchase if no more than 3 modules have been completed. Email meg@learnplaythrive.com 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 admin@learnplaythrive.com before registering. Accommodations will be made to support learners in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act.
You can send an email to admin@learnplaythrive.com
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Why enroll today?
Group Discounts
We are happy to offer a discount for your group! Email your list of participants to admin@learnplaythrive.com 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.
