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Executive Functioning Skills and Free to No-Cost Tools for Your Executive Function Toolbox
Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. When children have opportunities to develop executive function and self-regulation skills, individuals and society experience lifelong benefits. These skills are crucial for learning and development. They also enable positive behavior and allow us to make healthy choices for ourselves and our families.
 
Select the link below to learn about strategies and tools to strengthen executive functioning skills in math, reading, and writing.
 
Addressing Executive Function Skills in Writing
 

The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders

The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders is a multi-university center to promote the use of evidence-based practice for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.
 
 
professionals meeting
 
 

HANDS in Autism ® Interdisciplinary Training Resource Center Training

HANDS in Autism® was founded in 2004 to extend the outreach and training offered by the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center at Riley Hospital at IU Health and the IU School of Medicine. The Center provides innovative, research-based, and practical training and technical support to school staff, medical and service providers, primary caregivers, and individuals on the autism spectrum within Indiana and globally based on the HANDS training model. This model is founded on the belief that training should focus on: individual strengths; comprehensive training; data driven decision making; blended evidence-based intervention strategies; and hands-on practice, coaching and mentoring with individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder as well as a range of other individuals with diverse strengths and challenges in their natural settings. HANDS offers complementary resources and negotiates a range of service contracts to suit consumer needs.
 
 

Indiana Resource Center for Autism Events

The Indiana Resource Center for Autism at Indiana University's Indiana Institute on Disability and Community is pleased to announce numerous training opportunities for the 2017-2018 school year. Details of workshop and training opportunities are distributed through the IRCA E-Newsletter, the Reporter.
 

Autism Internet Modules

What are the Autism Internet Modules (AIM)?

AIM is designed to provide high-quality information and professional development for anyone who supports, instructs, works with, or lives with someone with autism. AIM modules are available at no cost. Each module guides you through case studies, instructional videos, pre- and post-assessments, a glossary, and much more.

Current Modules (45)

  •       Antecedent-Based Interventions (ABI)
  •       ASD-4-EI: What Early Interventionists Should Know
  •       Assessment for Identification
  •       Autism and Medication
  •       Autism and the Biopsychosocial Model: Body, Mind, and Community
  •       Cognitive Differences
  •       Comprehensive Program Planning for Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorders
  •       Computer-Aided Instruction
  •       Customized Employment
  •       Differential Reinforcement
  •       Discrete Trial Training
  •       Extinction
  •       Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA)
  •       Functional Communication Training
  •       Home Base
  •       Language and Communication
  •       Naturalistic Intervention
  •       Overview of Social Skills Functioning and Programming
  •       Parent-Implemented Intervention
  •       Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention (PMII)
  •       Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)
  •       Pivotal Response Training (PRT)
  •       Preparing Individuals for Employment
  •       Prompting
  •       Reinforcement
  •       Response Interruption/Redirection
  •       Restricted Patterns of Behavior, Interests, and Activities
  •       Rules and Routines
  •       Screening Across the Lifespan for Autism Spectrum Disorders
  •       Self-Management
  •       Sensory Differences
  •       Social Narratives
  •       Social Skills Groups
  •       Social Supports for Transition-Aged Individuals
  •       Speech Generating Devices (SGD)
  •       Structured Teaching
  •       Structured Work Systems and Activity Organization
  •       Supporting Successful Completion of Homework
  •       Task Analysis
  •       The Employee with Autism
  •       The Incredible 5-Point Scale
  •       Time Delay
  •       Transitioning Between Activities
  •       Video Modeling
  •       Visual Supports
 
 

AFIRM Modules - Evidence Based Practices

AFIRM Modules are designed to help you learn the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring an EBP with learners with ASD from birth to 22 years of age. Supplemental materials and handouts are available for download. All materials and modules are free of cost and easy to use.

Current Modules (16)

  •       Antecedent- Based Intervention
  •       Discrete Trial Training
  •       Exercise
  •       Functional Behavior Assessment
  •       Modeling
  •       Peer-Mediated Instruction and Intervention
  •       Picture Exchange Communication System
  •       Prompting
  •       Reinforcement
  •       Scripting
  •       Self-Management
  •       Social Narratives
  •       Social Skills Training
  •       Task Analysis
  •       Time Delay
  •       Visual Supports