Teaching Flexibility to Reduce Anxiety and Build Connections with Anna Vagin PhD

3 Hours of CA State approved CEUs for Speech-Language Pathologists (Not ASHA)

About the Training

Flexibility is often a struggle for students with social learning challenges. Their tendencies toward rigidity affect their academic success, friendships, and even conversational skills. And inflexibility can also lead to anxiety, frustration, and a poor sense of self. This expanded 3-hour presentation will first explore student profiles that tend toward inflexibility. Then, numerous activities to build flexibility will be discussed and practiced, some using animated videos, some using games and activities, and others using semi-structured conversation frameworks. We will end with a discussion of using rubrics to write goals about flexibility. Participants will leave with a selection of new activities, recommended video animations that target developing flexibility, and information on using rubrics when working with this very abstract concept.

Learner Objectives:

  • Demonstrate 2 activities targeting increasing flexibility that are applicable for a student in their caseload.

  • Outline the procedure for Conversation in Real Time.

  • Explain the roles of previewing and retrospective review in practicing flexibility.

  • Compose a goal for flexibility that uses a rubric.

Continuing Education Units (CEU)

Communication Works is a certified CEU provider through the State of California for Speech-Language Pathologists. CEUs for this training are not approved through ASHA.

Recording

A recording will be made available to registrants for viewing for two weeks ONLY following the live online training. Access to the recording ends November 10th, 2021.

Regular Price $59.00

Ended: Early Bird $45.00 - - Ended October 13th

About Anna Vagin, PhD

  • Over 25 years as a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist

  • B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara

  • M.A., University of Redlands

  • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley & SFSU

  • Dissertation on Mother-Child Interaction in Children with Bilateral Cleft Lip and Palate

  • Author of Movie Time Social Learning (2013) and YouCue Feelings: Using Online Videos for Social Learning (2015)

  • Awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2014 by the California Speech and Hearing Association, District 1, for Innovative Work in Autism

Past EventsMegan LarsenOctober 27th, 2021