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University of Missouri
205 Portland Street
Columbia, MO 65211
573-884-6052
The Thompson Center is proud to offer more than 30 FREE virtual training opportunities to professionals working with individuals with autism through our Train Experts in Autism for Missouri (TEAM) initiative. Session information as well as registration links can be found below. You may register for multiple topics and most topics are offered more than once for your convenience.
Sessions will be viewed live via the Zoom platform. Sessions will not be recorded. Zoom is an easy to use online meeting space and can be accessed from any computer, smart phone, or tablet using high-speed internet.
If you have questions or require additional assistance, please contact Jaclyn Benigno at benignoj@health.missouri.edu.
Audience | Speech Language Pathologists Early Intervention Professionals Educators Residential Staff |
Session Description | This session will provide information on early signs of possible autism in young children that can be considered “red flags” of developmental concerns. Additional information will be provided about autism symptoms in young children and methods for screening and referring to diagnostic and support services when there are concerns for autism. This sessions contains some overlapping information with the Overview of Autism session. |
Date & Time | August 30, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
| January 10, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Early Intervention Professionals Educators Professionals working with transition |
Session Description | This session will identify effective strategies to address independence into educational programming for students with autism. This session will discuss common barriers to increasing independence and how to address these. Additional resources will be provided to participants. This session is most applicable for educators (e.g. special educators, general educators, paraprofessionals) working with students with autism. |
Date & Time | September 7, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
January 18, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Educators Early Intervention Professionals Other professionals working with behavior |
Session Description | This session will provide educational professionals with an overview of strategies to promote appropriate behavior in the classroom setting. The content will include functional information on why problem behavior may occur. Strategies to address the environment as well as teach/reinforce new behavior will be discussed. This session may be best for paraprofessionals or educators new to addressing problem behavior. |
Date & Time | September 13, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
January 24, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Speech Language Pathologists Early Intervention Professionals |
Session Description | This session will highlight the importance of play development. Strategies to engage students in play and to expand students’ play schemes will be discussed. Additionally, strategies to facilitate emergent engagement with peers will be presented. |
Date & Time | September 20, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
January 31, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | School Psychologists Educators Professionals working with behavior |
Session Description | This session will provide foundational an overview of the Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) process for professionals working in a school setting. Participants will learn indirect and direct data collection methods to identify possible reasons for problem behavior occurring. The content of this presentation will focus on the relationship between the environment and appropriate behavior. This session will also provide resources for education professionals to access as they move forward with using FBAs. This presentation is intended for educational professionals who participate in the FBA process (e.g. special educators, school psychologists, behavior specialists). |
Date & Time | September 27, 2021| 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
February 7, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Speech Language Pathologists Early Intervention Professionals |
Session Description | This session will provide strategies for increasing communication and engagement for children with emergent language skills using evidenced based intervention for improving social-communication, play, and adaptive skills. |
Date & Time | September 29, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
February 2, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | School Psychologists Educators Professionals working with behavior |
Session Description | This session will identify the necessary components of an effective behavior plan, strategies to increase appropriate behavior, and how to monitor the implementation fidelity of a behavior plan. This session is most applicable for educators who have a basic knowledge of functional behavior assessments, behavior strategies and how to develop/implement behavior plans and for those who participate in the development of behavior plans in a school setting. |
Date & Time | October 4, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
February 28, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Educators Case Managers Administrators Early Intervention Professionals |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies for building effective school-based teams with paraprofessionals and examine how to take data and effectively plan for paraprofessional use. This session is most applicable for educators who are supervising paraprofessionals. |
Date & Time | October 18, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
February 23, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Educators Speech Language Pathologists Professionals working with transition |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies for teaching perspective taking, emotional regulation, maintaining conversations, and self-monitoring to individuals with autism. Strategies discussed are most applicable to students with the ability for conversational speech. |
Date & Time | November 9, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
March 8, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Speech Language Pathologists Educators Other professionals working with behavior |
Session Description | This session is focused on teaching strategies for emotional self-regulation. Identifying emotions and behaviors, coping strategies, and procedures for self-monitoring will be discussed. |
Date & Time | November 15, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
March 14, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Parents of individuals with autism Educators working with parents of individuals with autism |
Session Description | This session will highlight critical components of parent/educator collaboration. Common missteps that can break trust will be discussed and procedures for meaningfully engaging parents in the IEP process will be presented. |
Date & Time | December 6, 2021 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
April 4, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Residential Staff |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies to support executive functioning using a strengths based approach. How to teach and maintain new skills in a residential setting will also be discussed. |
Date & Time | April 11, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Residential Staff |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies for increasing communication and engagement with individuals with autism living in residential settings. |
Date & Time | April 18, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Residential Staff |
Session Description | This session will identify the common functions of problem behavior and describe the 3 “C”s (Communication, Clear Expectations, and Create Motivation) of how to address problem behavior in a residential setting. |
Date & Time | April 25, 2022 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Individuals with autism |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies for creating a professional resume, preparing for interviews, searching for employment, etc. |
Date & Time | April 14, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Individuals with autism |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies for communicating with others using technology including professional and casual emails, texts, leaving voicemail messages, etc. |
Date & Time | April 21, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Audience | Individuals with autism |
Session Description | This session will identify strategies to better understand social norms, values, and beliefs. |
Date & Time | April 28, 2022 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. CST Click here to register for this session |
Interested in additional training? Check out our asynchronous training videos with topics including Overview of Autism, Comprehensive Evaluations, toileting, and more! We strongly suggest watching Overview of Autism before attending the webinars above.