5006V - Coaching SLP Students to Understand and Support Engagement in Very Young Children With Autism.

Identifying and using effective strategies to bolster a child’s engagement is the key to effective teaching. During this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how a cohort of SLP graduate learned to identify, engagement in a young child and strategies used to increase engagement with young children ASD. These skills gained through this training will support these future speech-language pathologists during therapy to increase child engagement in language learning opportunities. The presenters will share the training sequence provided to the SLP graduate students as well as pre and post survey and observational information. Participants in this talk will receive information about how to access the free online training modules and materials the SLP students reviewed during the session.