PROFESSIONALS- Joint Attention, Play & Engagement Regulation for Kids w/ Autism (PART 3)

Overview of Workshop: In this workshop Dr. Kasari describes how to assess joint attention and play in young children with autism. Next, she identifies ways in which clinicians can create individualized targets for intervening with a child. Lastly, she illustrates techniques for intervening on children's social communication and play skills.
Connie Kasari, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and Psychiatry at UCLA, where she conducts research on early interventions and interventions for children in their schools. Since 1990 she has been on the faculty at UCLA where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. She is a founding member of the Center for Autism Research and Treatment at UCLA and has been actively involved in autism research for the past 25 years. Her current research focuses on developing targeted interventions for early social communication development in at risk infants, toddlers and preschoolers with autism, and peer relationships for school aged children with autism. She is involved in several randomized controlled trials, with her most recent work involving multi-site studies for interventions aimed at underserved and under-represented populations of children with autism. She has published widely on topics related to social, emotional, and communication development and intervention in autism. She is on the treatment advisory board of the Autism Speaks Foundation, and regularly presents to both academic and practitioner audiences locally, nationally and internationally.

[@ThanhPham-pn6is]

Thank you for these videos. It helps me to understand how professionals do therapy.

[@rizwanaali6402]

Hi this was a great video series i think as a behavior analyst we would like to see such video series is there any possible way that we could also get the handouts that the other professionals were using to go through the details really really worth listening to the series Dr Kasari is very learned in her field , thumbs up

[@selmam8950]

I'd love to see subtitles with comments from Dr. Kasari.

[@juliepatterson8338]

I often note slow processing in my autistic students. It is important to pay attention to this. Javier seemed to look to the pictures on the wall several minutes after he was prompted but the professor and student did not realize or acknowledge this. They had already moved on to the next item. What do you think? Do you think this is slow processing and he was responding/attending to her prompts to look at the pictures on the wall?

[@claudiyaselvarajah6801]

Please don't make fun out of this poor chap. He is not an exhibit to make fun out of

[@tempone6105]

They're not making fun of him. That's the typical reaction of people when a baby/toddler successfully does something. It's part of the therapy.

[@hollycutts5032]

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[@anjansingh3093]

the environment should be clam and quite so that the kid is not overwhelmed. So many therapist talking and laughing makes it difficult for the little one to concentrate.

[@dyctiostelium]

Hi, I am in the spectrum and you guys really make waaay too much noise! Non-stop high pitched narration, poor kid. If you look closely you'll notice the maybe one person he seems to be interested in is whomever is holding the video camera, who happens to be quiet. I wonder if he/she was smiling at him or just there. It might be that he is interested in the camera, not the person holding it :) People are really not that interesting for us...

[@dmitrijjakovlev7825]

I sympathize, but without people it is impossible to live with some things, it is impossible to develop. My daughter is also in the spectrum, she does not speak, does not understand me, and if something is not right for her, she starts banging her head against the floor, against the wall and screaming loudly. What you say is probably the most important mistake of autists, you can not take the place of another person, feel his pain and collapsed reliable for the future of his child, if you become a highly functional autistic with the ability to write and speak, this does not mean that every autistic person is like that. What these people are doing is very cool, it is vitally important for us to learn from them, because let's say in my country, there is not even insurance, for 20 hours a week of ABA therapy, you have to study everything yourself and quit your job to help the child and then not fact that will help.

[@crazydiamond6512]

Totally agree 👍 and the fact they are talking about the "kid" infront of him. My grandson could not handle this. Give a toy, then take it away. Give him a chance to play! Holding him in place? These professionals should observe a child's natural actions not hold him in place and screech. I appreciate they are assessing but you'd think they were being paid by the minute. Why take the cup and spoon away? Let him do what he wants to do and observe around him! Flaming manual professionals

[@borninussr7242]

The gap between the child and therapists is so vast that any attempt to make progress will just be lost in that gap. They need to join the child in his world, make sense of it, and then progress can become a possibility. Otherwise, they will have to force him into compliance by whatever means, pad themselves on the back, and call it a success.

[@borninussr7242]

@@dmitrijjakovlev7825 Being autistic is not easy. Many simple daily functions come at high mental cost. Allow your daughter time to decompress (rest/play). Look into her interests. Make many activities available (music, paining, markers, legos, ipad, youtube, etc.) She needs to be encouraged to spend her energy doing something else, rather than banging her head in desperation, because her environment is not supportive. Give her reason to live by accepting her as she is, by supporting her in whatever she wants to do (even if it doesn't seem normal), and give her abundance of love and care.

[@isabelsanchez3970]

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