TRIAD Early Intervention Professional Development Opportunities 2024-2025

Dates: Fridays Jan 24^th, & Feb 21^st
Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm CST / 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Location: Online
Continuing Education credit: 1.5 hours per webinar
Audience: Early Intervention Providers

Please join Vanderbilt’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) Early Intervention Virtual Lunch and Learn Webinars in 2024-25. We will be hosting six, 90-minute webinars on various topics. The purpose of these webinars is to: a) provide the participant with an overview of the training topic; b) share and demonstrate the use of TRIAD resources; and c) assist participants in applying new knowledge to families. There will also be opportunities to participate in discussion, ask questions, and access resources. Registrants are encouraged to attend topics that are most interesting to them.

This professional development opportunity is sponsored by the Tennessee Early Intervention System and is available to all early intervention providers at no-cost to participants.

TRIAD is excited to partner with the Tennessee Early Intervention System to offer early intervention providers a unique professional development opportunity. The purpose of this partnership is to empower Developmental Therapists to provide coaching for caregivers based on evidence-based strategies for addressing dangerous or concerning behavior. This coaching partnership will last for three months and participants can expect the following:

• Up to two individualized, goal-driven coaching cycles focused on coaching a specific child/family with whom they already provide Developmental Therapy. The coaching cycles will include:
• Direct observations of recorded sessions with the same family
• Reflection and feedback sessions with a TRIAD coach and partner
• Opportunity to review peer sessions and provide feedback
• Three small and large group virtual community meetings to share goals and resources related to caregiver coaching.

Applications submitted prior to 8/15/24 will be given priority. Applications will be evaluated and accepted/waitlisted on a rolling basis beginning 8/15/24

This is a professional development program to support Developmental Therapists with building skills for early communicators. Over 12 weeks, participants will engage in asynchronous learning, submit a video example of themselves coaching a family on a communication strategy, and receive one on one coaching with a TRIAD consultant. Through this series participants will:

• Learn to support caregivers with identifying session targets that are developmentally appropriate and based on the stages of communication development.
• Identify caregiver coaching strategies to encourage the caregiver to describe what it will look like when the intervention is working.
• Use the systematic learning cycle to coach caregivers to model expansions using the one-up rule.
• Practice using resources to develop a sample plan of action connecting learning targets to functional outcomes and IFSP priorities.