Instructors: Michelle Garcia Winner (Disclosure), Pamela Crooke (Disclosure)
1.5 hours of instruction
Register for Part 2 streaming live on May 6, 2025
This course explores:
How to better understand and support tweens/teens with literal interpretive systems in their academic learning and social interactions.
Building strategies for balancing strengths with the development of critical life and social skills.
Approaches for addressing “world-based anxiety” and related mental health challenges with practical, evidence-supported strategies.
1.5 hours of CE credit available for select professionals.
For any special accommodations please email us.
Part 1: Strategies for Tweens/Teens Who Are Literal Thinkers and Socially Less Aware
While a literal learning system can be an absolute strength in some circumstances, it can also be a struggle when the academic and social worlds increase in complexity. This course explores how to better understand, support, and teach strategies for more literal thinkers with very literal interpretive systems. We’ll focus on strengths but will also have an honest conversation about how to listen to their individual goals while simultaneously helping them to gain skills and supported independence for adulthood in ways that make sense to them.