Understanding and Managing Challenging Behavior during Distance Learning: Focusing on ASD Students

Understanding and Managing Challenging Behavior during Distance Learning:  Focusing on ASD Students

Speaker:  Jaclyn Halpern, PsyD

Date and Time:  Thursday, April 30, 2020;  7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Location:  Online

Cost: Free to all

Registration is Required:  When you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing your link to join the webinar. Check your junk email if you don't see your confirmation email immediately.

Distance learning has created a new and challenging environment for our ASD students; loss of familiar routines and social contact and the accompanying increase in anxiety and/or depression has resulted -- for many -- in behaviors that interfere with learning and other aspects of home life.  Join us online to hear from Psychologist Jaclyn Halpern, PsyD, who will discuss how we can understand and work with our ASD students to help them adapt to this new environment and diminish interfering behaviors.  Dr. Halpern will present an overview and then address participants' questions.

To the extent possible, please submit your questions ahead of time with your registration. (Accepting questions through 4/28). Providing questions beforehand will allow Dr. Halpern to shape her presentation to address more parents' concerns in the first half of the webinar and leave more time to answer questions directly from the live chat in the second half. 

Speaker Bio: Dr. Jaclyn Halpern is the Director and Co-Founder of The SOAR Program for Psychotherapy and Testing. Dr. Halpern has worked in private practice since she was licensed in 2010. She has extensive experience as a clinical director, evaluator, therapist, parent coach, and supervisor. In her therapeutic work, Dr. Halpern focuses foremost on building a nurturing, supportive, honest, and empathic interpersonal therapeutic relationship with every patient, including those she evaluates. When appropriate, Dr. Halpern enjoys collaborating with family members, and other members of each patient’s support system (like teachers, tutors, other therapists, and doctors), to provide the highest level of care, and to promote health, growth, and stability. Dr. Halpern supports patients through a variety of modalities, and helps each patient and family uncover strengths to support vulnerabilities and to facilitate progress.