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Learning Outcomes
o! Know how to apply new research on the
neuroscience of autism spectrum and attention
disorders in older students
o! Understand how instructional and technological
interventions can maximize auditory attention in the
classroom and drive better results.
Understanding brain maturation
o! Be able to implement instructional tools and
methods to enhance self-regulation skills and decrease
behavioral management issues in the classroom
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!! Lack of shared attention – babies should try to 12-week, low intensity parental intervention
Results
!! Repetitive behaviors – like spinning a car
wheel rather than playing with the car o! Significantly more symptomatic than most
comparison groups @ 9 months of age.
!! Language problems seen with any of the above o! Significantly less symptomatic than the
two most affected groups between 18 &
36 months.
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Attention: Typical Maturation Allows for Changing But Children With Attentional Problems Also
from Global to Focused (Selective Attention) Exhibit Problems With Cognitive Control!
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Central to the incentive processing system is the Prolonged refinements over the course of childhood
ventral striatum (VS) involved in reward, and the (Too et al., 2014) and adolescence (Casey et al, 2008)
medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) especially involved in (DLPFC) and posterior parietal lobe associated with
in aspects of social processing Cognitive Control are thought to support reasoned
—these are integral parts of the limbic system behavior and adolescents’ emerging capacity for
the early developing, primitive emotional/reward behavior regulation
processing systems of the brain
Mid-Dorsolateral
Prefrontal Cortex
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Part II
Classroom Activities &
Intervention Tools for Middle &
High School Students
So what can educators
do about all of this?
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o! Their brains are designed to be overly responsive to
Model of Facilitated Learning
rewards and peer influence, so use socially safe
rewards. (Part 2): Strategies and
Applications. Australian
o! They are extremely flexible in goal setting, they will
Occupational Therapy
change instantly under peer pressure, so minimize peer
Journal, 54, S41.
influence through carefully selected group work.
o! A teacher’s praise may have a social cost, so use other
rewards (especially tangible, eg. access to a video
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Therapist Initiated
(early stages or low functioning students)
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Student Planner
Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat
Managing Timelines with Planners
English
o! Keep dates visible and break down projects into
smaller chunks
Math
o! Start with adult supervision and guidance
Science o! Then “deconstruct the scaffold” and allow the student
more control of the planner content and process
Social
Studies
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HS grades
o! REWARD REWARD REWARD!
SAT
ACT
College o! Take advantage of all the free resources.
Application
Weekly planner – SS
test – get A or B
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Resources (1 of 3)
Q&A Albert, D. & Steinberg, L. (2011) Judgment and Decision Making in Adolescence.
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE, 21(1), 211 – 224
Dolen, G. (2013) Social Reward requires coordinated activity of Nucleus Accumbens Oxytocin
and serotonin. Nature 501, 179-184
Wolff, J. et al., (2012) Differences in White Matter Fiber Tract Development Present from 6 to
24 Months in Infants with Autism. Am J Psychiatry. June 1; 169(6): 589–600
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Resources (2 of 3) Resources (3 of 3)
Iossifov, I et al. (2012) De Novo Gene Disruptions in Children on the Autistic Specturm.
Neuron 74:2, 285-299.
Guare, Richard, and Peg Dawson. Smart but
King, I. (2013) Topoisomerases facilitate transcription of long genes to autism. Nature 501,
September 5. 58-62
Scattered Teens: The “Executive Skills”
Program for Helping Teens Reach Their
“Mind Reading: Demo.” Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Web. <http://www.jkp.com/mindreading/ Potential. New York: Guilford, 2013. Print.
demo/index.php>.
http://www.guilford.com/guare-forms
“Michelle Garcia.” Social Thinking. Web. <www.socialthinking.com>.
Plasschaert, R & Bartolomei (2013) A long genetic explanation. Nature 501, September 5, 36-37
Sanders, S. (2013) De Novo mutations revealed by whole exome sequencing are strongly
associated with autism. Nature 485, 237-241 Kahn, Joyce, and Margaret Foster.
State, M & Levitt P The conundrums of understanding genetic risks for autism spectrum disorders. Boosting Executive Skills in the
Nature Neuroscience VOLUME 14 | NUMBER 12 | DECEMBER 2011 1499 Classroom: A Practical Guide for
Educators. Print.
Strang, N., Chein, J. & Steinberg, L. (2013) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Article 223, Vol. 7
Underwood, E.(2013) Alarm over Autism Test. Science 13 September: 1164-1167
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