Timothy Kowalski – Social Effectiveness: Strategies for Clinic, Home, and School

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• Archive: Total sizes: - include: Faculty:Timothy KowalskiDuration:1 Hour 36 MinutesFormat:Audio and VideoCopyright:Nov 20, 2020 Description Manual - Social Effectiveness (18.5 MB) 58 Pages Available after Purchase Instructions for ASHA credit - Self-Study Only (64.4 KB) Available after Purchase Outline THE “ROOTS OF SOCIAL SKILLS”: IF THE ROOTS AREN’T VIABLE, THE TREE WON’T SURVIVETheory of Mind Treatment for: Poor perspective taking, imaginative play, cognitive thinkingStrategies:The Zone (Kowalski, 2010)Comic Strip Conversations and Social StoriesBarrier and detective gamesCentral Coherence: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees Treatment for: Hyperliteral, “Argues”, misinterpretationStrategies:Loosey-Goosey LanguageCognitive flexibilityBig PictureExecutive Functions (EF): Tools for Executive Function Deficits Treatment for: Poor planning, problem solving, flexible thinkingStrategies:ImitationContingency statementsStroop-like tasksTHE SOCIAL TRIAD Social Interaction Treatment for: Naïve, poor play skills, obsessive interestsStrategies:Structured play groupsSocial autopsiesSocial cause-effectSocial Communication Treatment for: Pedantic speech, difficulty with conversation, poor nonverbal communicationStrategies:Visual strategiesGrice’s MaximsExpansion and RepairSocial-Emotional Regulation and Emotional Intelligence: EQ Treatment for: Easily stressed, anxious, ritualisticStrategies:Recognizing emotions in yourself and others (prosopagnosia)Language of emotions (alexithymia)Forget About It Box Faculty Timothy Kowalski, MA, CCC-SLP Related seminars and products: 6 Timothy P. Kowalski, M.A., CCC-SLP, is a licensed speech-language pathologist specializing in social-pragmatic communication deficits and internationally known expert on Asperger Syndrome.

• His Orlando practice has seen clients from Europe, South America and throughout the USA.

• Mr. Kowalski regularly consults to schools on best practices for students identified or suspected of having Asperger’s syndrome and provides schoolwide district inservices.Mr.

• Kowalski presents internationally on a wide variety of issues relative to Asperger’s, is a guest lecturer at universities and colleges and is a consultant for forensic cases involving Asperger’s syndrome.

• He has worked in a variety of psychiatric healthcare delivery systems including in-patient and outpatient psychiatric hospitals, sex offender units, and school-based settings.