145: How to Foster the Socio-Emotional Well-Being of Autistic Clients and Their Families
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In this podcourse, I am joined by Rachel Dorsey, a Speech-Language Pathologist, educator, consultant, and autism rights advocate. Through her private practice/consultancy, Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC, she provides therapy sessions and education to parents, professionals, school districts, and organizations through coaching, consultations, in-services, professional developments, and courses on neurodiversity-affirming therapeutic practice. The services she offers as a consultant draw upon her own experience as an Autistic person and her nearly six years of clinical experience working within early intervention, preschool (CPSE), school-aged, post-secondary through itinerant work, and clinic-based settings. She launched “Goal Writing for Autistic Students: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach”, a comprehensive course on building strengths-based goals which counts for 1.05 ASHA and AOTA CEUs. Rachel is an active advocate within the Autistic community with a substantial social media presence, collaborating with leading Autistic advocates and allies.
In this session, we discussed important factors and strategies for supporting the socio-emotional well-being of autistic clients. This session explored strategies to implement with young children, as well as, difficulties clinicians may encounter when supporting the socio-emotional wellbeing of older autistic children.
Topics/Questions Asked:
What's the impact of not fostering the socio-emotional wellbeing?
Importance of fostering socio-emotional wellbeing early on in life.
What are some of the difficulties encountered when helping the socio-emotional wellbeing of older autistic children and why?
Ways to overcome those difficulties.
You can download the full handout, watch the video playback, ask questions in a private SLP community, and earn 0.1 ASHA CEUs for this episode! Please visit the Tassel Learning website for more information.