ECHO Autism & Positive Behavior Supports

What if we reframed behavior? What if we talked about removing the notion of “autistic behaviors” from our vocabulary and reframed it as communication (inspired by Barry Prizant)? “Why is this child doing that?” From an SLP perspective, this session explores how challenging behaviors reflect unmet needs, barriers to expressing wants, needs, and emotions, difficulties with language processing, limited self-advocacy skills, and difficulty with understanding social interactions. Participants will examine practical strategies for looking beyond the behavior, identifying the possible message, and supporting effective communication across environments.

Presenters: Terri Wofford MS CCC-SLP, Associate Lecturer and Manager of the Wyoming Assistive Technology Resources (WATR) and Ruth Freidel, M.A., CCC-SLP, Speech Language Pathologist, Clinical Assistant Professor, Wyoming Institute for Disabilities  (WIND)