Touro University is partnering up with the City of Henderson to help spread awareness about children’s emotional and social development, including information about autism and neurodivergence. To accomplish this goal, employees will be expected to attend a 90-minute course.
This educational course will help staff members identify and assist children who are displaying difficulty with moderating their own behaviors and emotions. These children might be showing destructive behaviors like kicking, screaming, refusing to listen to adults, or attempting to harm themselves. Other children might start shutting down, not responding to adults or other children and appearing dissociated.
Staff members will be instructed on how to help the child improve upon their self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship skills in the moment of the breakdown.
Intervention is critical according to the experts at Touro’s Pierce Autism Center because younger children who are learning to moderate their emotions will begin to formulate habits at their age. How they handle those difficult moments now will eventually become how they manage their emotions throughout their lifetime. With proper correction and support, children can foster more positive behaviors that they can carry with them forever.
Henderson staff members will be offered at least six training sessions.
Would You Know How to Respond to a Neurodivergent Child?
Right now, it’s estimated that an overwhelming one out of every 36 children in America is on the autism spectrum. With so many more neurodivergent people in the population, it’s becoming more and more important to learn how to navigate neurodivergence.
Meltdowns and shutdowns are both very common responses to becoming overwhelmed as a neurodivergent individual. Meltdowns result in a loss of control, which can appear to be a voluntary tantrum to someone who isn’t aware of how a neurodiverse brain might operate. Shutdowns, on the other hand, leave the child more vulnerable to becoming overly compliant, dissociated, or even unable to speak.
Do you believe you might know someone with autism? Here at the Nevada Autism Center, our staff helps empower the younger generation by first working to assess the patient. Next, our team helps develop an ABA therapy program specifically designed to help improve the patient’s social skills and emotional regulation. One great feature of our program is that the patient’s family will always be a part of the therapy program and their child’s progress.
Our facility’s in-clinic approach to therapy is beneficial for your child because it gives them a structured environment that’s filled with greater levels of neurodiverse support. In-clinic therapy also allows children to develop friendships and experience more opportunities for social development. We also offer at-home services for children who need an environment that’s more natural, familiar, and comfortable them in order to feel safe enough to grow. In these cases, we want to involve other family members as much as possible.
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