The Many Challenges of Self-Regulation
- Balance the needs of the body, brain, senses, emotions, and the social self
- Emotional regulation and sensory regulation
- Neurotypical children v. atypical children
- Differences with ASD, ADHD, and other challenges
- Tying intervention to assessment results
- How well are we doing the research?
A Little Bit of Neuroanatomy
- Cerebellum: The prediction machine
- The ASD, ADHD, sensory connection
- Mapping emotions
- The vagal nerve’s job in all this
Let’s Talk about Infants and Toddlers
- Early predictors of ASD, ADHD, and sensory challenges
- Infants, temperament, crying, and social attention
- Facial expressions and emotions in ASD
- Parent video feedback with infants makes a difference!
Self-Regulation for All Age-Groups and Behavior Types
- Calming and gradual exposure and desensitization
- Rethinking the classroom, office, and/or home environment
- Strategies for pre-school and the kindergarten classroom
- Play, play, play! Inside/outside the classroom
- Classroom aerobics and other activities
- Heavy work, exercise, deep pressure, and play
Eating and Sleeping Can Co-opt Good Effort
- Effect of poor sleep on repetitive behaviors and negative affect in ASD
- Effects of sensory processing on sleep
- Bedtime fading
- Melatonin, elimination diets and supplements for ASD and ADHD
- Sensory intervention at mealtime
Autism Spectrum Disorder: Techniques You Should Absolutely be Using
- Engaging lists, stories, and transitions (Make them fun!)
- Making consistency as your modus operandi
- Play engagement, DIR, ABA, discrete trials and more
- Restrictive, Repetitive Behaviors (RRBs) Interventions
- High order v. low order
- Exercise and aquatic movement
- Ayres’ Sensory Therapy®
- Mixed method interventions
- Help kids with ASD handle peer rejection
- Video feedback for social scenarios: Do’s and don’ts
ADHD: Effectively Intervene with This “Moving Target”
- A new look at combined ADHD and Concentration Deficit Disorder
- Innovative organization techniques
- Creating simple habits and keeping it simple
- Grounding activities: Mindfulness, karate, HIIT
- Self-management intervention and “getting to center”
- Check impulsivity meta-cognitive group games
- Revisiting feedback and timing in the cerebellum
Special Interventions for Teens and Tweens
- Video feedback: Create appropriate expressions, reactions, and interactions
- Social skills programs to develop real-life empathy
- Regulation techniques for social situations and avoiding peer rejection
- Sensorimotor Therapy to cut through trauma
It’s a Team—Going for the Championship
- Partnership of teachers, therapists, and specialists
- Interlace the team’s self-regulation goals to make them effective
- How to include parents: Highly effective at-home interventions


