Developmental Early Childhood

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Join us and learn about the tools and resources from the SPELL-Links team available from Pearson! From Tier 1 curricular support with Wordtivities or all-staff training offerings to Tier 2/3 deep structured literacy tools like SPELL-Links to Reading and Writing, you will learn about choosing the right tools for each of your needed contexts.

Join this author-led webinar to hear about the new Movement ABC-3 Test and Checklist and learn how the two can be used together or independently to assess motor competence in children and young adults.

The prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder is currently 1 in 36 school-age children in the United States. Yet, the breadth of the spectrum is so broad and heterogeneous that it becomes perplexing as to how some individuals who are profoundly affected can carry the same diagnostic label as those with more subtle symptom expression. This workshop will help clinicians better understand the variability across the autism spectrum based symptom expression, levels of cognition and language, sex differences, emotional/behavioral regulation, and racial/ethnic differences. How to identify and differentiate the common co-occurring conditions will also be discussed. 

This webinar will provide information about using performance indicators in the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool (3rd ed.; CELF® Preschool–3) that provide clinicians with information about the language skills children need to succeed in their Pre-K or K–2 classrooms. Selected subtests that focus on semantic, pragmatic, and early literacy skills will be described, with information on how these subtests link to the curriculum. Two case studies will be presented.  

This webinar will provide an evidence-based framework for assessing and teaching relational concepts essential for learning and emotional regulation. Dr. Boehm will discuss how this is done with students with diverse needs, such as those with disrupted learning, autism spectrum disorder, visual or hearing loss, and cognitive challenges. Checklists and key references will be provided.

School professionals are on the front line of addressing the current mental health crisis among children and adolescents. In this webinar, we will demonstrate the process of identifying and addressing emotional, behavioral, and mental health concerns through screening, assessments, interventions, and progress monitoring.  

An interactive panel discussion featuring three expert occupational therapists who will discuss their recent research in the field of autism, moderated by Pearson OT Research Director, Elizabeth Munsell, PhD, OTR/L  

The question of whether true adaptive behavior profiles in persons with autism spectrum disorder exists has been discussed in the literature for decades. This webinar will explore if, and how, adaptive functioning profiles of individuals with ASD differ from typical normative samples.

Young children who have challenging behavior are more likely to continue to have problems with socialization, school success, and mental health concerns into adolescence and adulthood. This presentation examines how behavioral screeners and assessments, best practices in classroom management, evidence-based behavioral supports, and social/emotional learning instruction can be coordinated within a program to support children’s social, emotional, and behavior needs.