Why you need this tutorial:

• Your presenter, Rachel, is a paediatric speech-language pathologist, autistic and the founder of Rachel Dorsey: Autistic SLP, LLC. a private practice/consultancy in Massachusetts, USA

• Rachel specialises in goal writing for autistic students and has compiled a number of publications, presentation and courses, combining her personal experiences as a person with autism and her professional experiences as an Autistic SLP, with a focus on educating others in autistic affirming practices

• This presentation is for those of us in Australia (and around the world) who are challenged by the raft of deficit based-goals when working with autistic children and young people

The key areas to be covered:

• The neurodiversity paradigm

• The challenges with traditional goals

• Guidance around how we can help autistic clients thrive, autistically

• An outline of the screening tools preferred by the NDIS to measure capacity and track progress

• Examples of how we can ‘re-frame’ some of the common goals we come across in our autistic clients’ NDIS plans and service requests to ensure they are autistic affirming

What you’ll get:

• A 60min recorded presentation with lifetime access

• Downloadable PDF of presentation

Testimonial: “I wanted to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Rachel Dorsey for her invaluable presentation on Strengths-Based goal writing for Autistic Clients.

I can honestly say the information Rachel shared has been an absolute blessing for me in this last week !  Not only from my ability to have input into a young clients goals but the biggest blessing was from the Mum of this young person who was so emotional and commented that someone finally “got her” in reference to her child …it waws really touching and even a wee bit emotional. Just want to say a huge thanks, so grateful for this learning and insight.” Suzanne VIC Australia .