Special Populations: Children and Adolescents
Objectives
- Understand
different learning styles and temperaments, how they impact learning, self
esteem and mood
- Identify tools
to most effectively support each student’s ability to learn
Objectives:
- Brain
development and critical periods
- Impact of
exposure to alcohol, opioids, nicotine, cannabis, and stimulants on the fetal
brain
- Impact of
exposure to alcohol, opioids, nicotine, cannabis and stimulants on the
developing brain (0-24)
Objectives
- Explore the
symptoms and strengths of people with ASDs
- Identify
co-occurring issues of people with ASDs and discuss how those diagnoses might
contribute to behavioral issues
- Learn about trauma informed issues when working with people with
ASDs
- Identify interventions to help
caregivers better assist their child who has an ASD
- Identify
common diagnostic instruments for ASD