Seminars
Practical information from Fraser experts
You can benefit from decades of Fraser experience by attending one of our many seminars. These seminars are designed for families, teachers, care providers, social workers and others who are interested in gaining practical knowledge and skills. Fraser seminars are taught by experts with many years of experience. Our registration fees are low to allow everyone to participate.
Look and Learn — Visual Strategies Workshop
Participants will gain an understanding of visual tools, which can help children with autism spectrum disorders engage, communicate, organize, sequence, process and initiate.
This workshop is for parents, family members or care providers whose children:
- experience processing delays
- thrive on structure and concrete information
- experience sensory challenges
- struggle with transitions
- have difficulty with perspective taking
- can’t always see “the big picture”
- have difficulty with executive functioning (organization, structure, and prioritizing)
Play to Talk Workshop
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 (9 - 10:30 a.m.) - Fraser Anoka
Fraser Anoka (directions)
Learn proven strategies and step-by-step instructions to help children of any age develop essential skills for social interactions. Fraser experts will teach you how to turn everyday activities and social interactions between your child and family members into opportunities to foster language development, relationship skills and positive behavior without taking the fun out of being together.
This workshop is for parents, family members or care providers of children up to age 18 that:
- Are "late to talk"
- Stay alone or avoid others
- Play little or in unusual ways
- Rarely communicate with sounds
- Talk more to themselves than to others
- Have language but rarely have conversations
- Dominate conversations
- Have difficulty developing friendships
The Play to Talk Workshop, lead by Fraser autism expert Andy Paulson, Ph.D., is based on effective, evidence-based, family-focused intervention for children with autism spectrum disorders backed by decades of research and clinical practice.
Families and ASD: Finding Balance
Sunday, February 21, 2010
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (adults only)
Part 2: Full-Day Private Consultation
Your child(ren) will be present for your five hour private consultation. You will spend 2 1/2 hours with Eric Hamblen and 2 1/2 hours with Dr. Kathi Calouri. Your consultation day will be scheduled one day during the week of Monday, February 22, 2010 - Friday, February 26, 2010.
Part 3: "Bringing it Home" Session
Saturday, February 27, 2010
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (adults only)
3333 University Ave SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414
This unique three-part workshop, presented by PACE Place in partnership with Fraser, is designed to work intensively with ten families (parents and children) including two days dedicated to interactive lecture and hands-on learning for parents only. Each family also receives a private, five hour consultation with their child(ren).
The lecture segment of this workshop will teach participants:
- to recognize the unique pattern of parenting that unfolds when raising a child with autism;
- how to promote social-emotional development within the family system; and
- effective strategies for leveraging the most powerful relationships in a child's development — the parents.
The private family consultation will help participants apply what they learned in the classroom to the home setting. Participants will:
- gain ideas to address specific concerns for your child;
- receive feedback on leveraging your family relationships to promote your child's development;
- learn new activities to increase effective parenting of children with autism.
Families who participated in previous workshop called them a "life changing experience." Below is a testimonial from a workshop participant:
“My husband and I attended an Immersion Workshop hosted at Fraser in November of 2008. Our time spent that weekend was revolutionary for our family. The PACE Place model of empowering parents was just what we needed to regain control in our family. We had been reacting to the loudest, biggest behaviors from our son, at the expense of our other children. Learning about how a brain with autism works and the resulting behaviors was like having our eyes opened; we could finally understand some of what our son is going through and how our reaction to his behaviors was negatively affecting both he and our family. During the day of private consultation, the consultants worked small miracles with our son. They were able to keep him calm and keep him with us during the activities. When entering the large atrium at the zoo, our son became very agitated and his voice got louder and he was running ahead of us. We remained very calm and had him sit down with us on a bench and wait until the "Icky feeling" passed. It was amazing! After a few minutes, our son relaxed in the new environment and we were able to enjoy the zoo together. We learned to "change how he feels and change how he thinks." This new understanding now guides every decision we make. Since the workshop, our son is now toilet trained and sleeping through the night. I attribute those changes to the new thinking my husband and I learned from watching our consultants work with our son, coupled with hard-work and persistence on our part. Our son is much happier, and so are the rest of our children. The PACE Immersion Worship was just what we needed — help for our family and help for our everyday lives.”
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A Parent's Guide to Intensive Behavioral Interventions for Autism
This workshop will provide a practical road map for families in assessing what the best intervention fit for their child might be. We will review the principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA), with specific attention to the intensity, frequency, duration and setting of services.
Parents will develop “a week in the life of their child” intervention perspective and begin assessing who are the individuals that are currently in their child’s intervention life. The concept of “child centered collaboration” will be reviewed as we discuss the role of school based, community based and home based interventions working together.