Webinar: 2022-05-10: Teaching Conversation Skills to Neurodiverse Populations
Webinar: 2022-05-10: Teaching Conversation Skills to Neurodiverse Populations
Teaching Conversation Skills to Neurodiverse Populations presented by Chris Hanson and John Williamson
May 10, 2022 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST
Webinar description
This webinar will provide families and professionals from a variety of backgrounds with a general understanding of the value of taking the Real-Life Social Skills Academy’s concrete approach to learning conversation skills. In addition, webinar participants will become familiar with the specific scope and sequence of the Conversation Skills Video Course lessons and learn ways to encourage students to apply and generalize skills across real-world contexts.
Learning Objectives:
To provide a framework to help professionals & families understand the value of a concrete approach to learning conversation skills.
To become familiar & comfortable using our Conversation Skills Video Course
To gain a deeper contextual understanding & application of each lesson within our Conversation Skills Video Course.
To learn best approaches for encouraging students to apply and generalize the conversation skills taught in our course across real-world contexts.
About the presenters
Chris Hanson earned his special education teaching certification while working as paraeducator in the Kent School District. Overall, he has over 10 years of classroom experience and 20 years and counting of personal experience with ADHD. He started Life Skills Advocate, LLC in 2019 because he wanted to create the type of support service he wished he had when he was a teenager struggling to find my path in life. Alongside the team of 6 dedicated coaches, he feels very grateful to be on the other side of it, supporting some amazing young adults.
With everything he does, his mission is to provide neurodiverse learners and families with the individualized life skills training, executive functioning support, mentorship & coaching they need to build and sustain autonomy & independence.
John Williamson extensive experience working with children across a wide age range with a variety of communication-related challenges. Previously, he worked at Lakeside Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment (now I-CAN) and at Children’s Institute for Learning Differences (CHILD) before starting his own private practice, Social Skills Laboratory, PLLC.
Originally from Washington State,he got his master’s degree in Clinical Speech-Language Pathology from Northern Arizona University before moving back to the Pacific Northwest. He also has a Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech-Hearing Association (ASHA).
Within his practice, he is passionate about working with students who have social skills challenges, social anxiety as well as other speech and language-related difficulties.
