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ASAP - A Step Ahead Program, LLC

An Educational and Behavioral Consulting Clinic that serves children diagnosed with Speech/Language disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and more.

ASAP is an Educational and Behavioral Consulting Clinic that serves children diagnosed with:

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Speech and Language Impairments
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS)
Communication and Social Delays
Neuro-developmental and behavioral disabilities

01/28/2022

Don't forget to register TODAY for the VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! “Promoting Person-Centered, Culturally Responsive Collaborative Practices”! Scheduled for TOMORROW Saturday 29, 2022. Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx

01/25/2022

DON'T MISS OUT! ONLY 4 days left to our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! “Promoting Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Collaborative Practices”! This conference highlights the critical components of compassionate care, perspective taking, functional and meaningful outcome, and how a person-centered, collaborative and culturally responsive practices support, empower and celebrate autistic individuals. A big shout out and THANK YOU to Nayla Slim-Walk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nayla-slim-walk-1908004/) my amazingly talented, compassionate, and brilliant sister, who designed and produced this IPAC video!!🥰
Professionals from different disciplines along with families are bound to work together as part of interdisciplinary teams to address the challenges they are faced with. Interdisciplinary team members are constantly faced with differences regarding conceptual and theoretical approaches to autism treatment and supports. While working on teams may provide opportunities for dissemination of the evidence-based autism interventions, most practitioners have received little to no formal professional development and training on effective collaborative competencies when working with colleagues from different disciplines, cultural and theoretical backgrounds (Slim & Rueter-Yuill, 2021). Tensions, confusion, and disagreements are bound to happen especially as all professionals of the interdisciplinary team are advocating for their right to practice while competing for finite resources (Spencer, Slim, Cardon & Morgan, 2020). While potential conflict exists between practitioners, there is an increased recognition for the need to seek professional development and training on collaborative competencies and a set of guidelines that foster building effective and healthy relationships amongst all professionals of the team and promote effective interprofessional collaborative practices that are person-centered and culturally responsive. This presentation will (1) provide a framework for applying ethical interprofessional education and collaborative practices, (2) identify challenges to collaboration and provide suggestions to addressing them through the lens of culturally aware practices and cultural humility, and (3) offer suggestions for a systems approach that promotes effective person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive interprofessional collaboration.
Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx A big shout out and THANK YOU to Nayla Slim-Walk (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nayla-slim-walk-1908004/ ) my amazingly talented, compassionate, and brilliant sister, who designed and produced this IPAC video!!🥰
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01/20/2022

Hurry! One week left! Don’t miss out on our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! Today, we’re highlighting our Panel Discussion Moderator, Lina Slim, PhD, BCBA-D, CCC-SLP, addressing ““How Cultural Responsiveness and Humility Enhance a Collaborative Approach to Treatment”. This conference highlights the critical components of compassionate care, perspective taking, functional and meaningful outcome, and how a person-centered, collaborative and culturally responsive practices support, empower and celebrate autistic individuals.
Professionals from different disciplines along with families are bound to work together as part of interdisciplinary teams to address the challenges they are faced with. Interdisciplinary team members are constantly faced with differences regarding conceptual and theoretical approaches to autism treatment While working on teams may provide opportunities for dissemination of the evidence-based autism interventions, most practitioners have received little to no formal professional development and training on effective collaborative competencies when working with colleagues from different disciplines and cultural and theoretical backgrounds (Slim & Rueter-Yuill, 2021). Tensions, confusion, and disagreements are bound to happen especially as all professionals of the interdisciplinary team are advocating for their right to practice while competing for finite resources (Spencer, Slim, Cardon & Morgan, 2020). While potential conflict exists between practitioners, there is an increased recognition for the need to seek professional development and training collaborative competencies and a set of guidelines that foster building effective and healthy relationships amongst all professionals of the team and promote effective interprofessional collaborative practices that are culturally responsive. This presentation will (1) provide a framework for applying ethical interprofessional education and collaborative practices, (2) identify challenges to collaboration and provide suggestions to addressing them through the lens of culturally aware practices and cultural humility, and (3) offer suggestions for a systems approach that promotes effective interprofessional collaboration.
Register today at: https://www.njsha.org/continuing-education/conferences/
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01/18/2022

Hurry! Don’t miss out! Looking forward to seeing you all at our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! Today, we’re highlighting our presenter, Cindy Gevarter, Ph.D., BCBA-D, addressing “Using AAC When Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families: Whose Perspective is it?”. Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
In the United States, it has becoming increasingly common that clinicians providing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services will be working with individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds (Soto & Yu, 2014). Prior research suggests that one potential barrier for successful adoption of AAC systems in home environments is that fact that clinicians often select systems that do not incorporate a family’s home language or culturally relevant vocabulary (McCord & Soto, 2004; Pickl, 2011). A team-based approach to the selection, design, and customization of AAC systems can be used to better meet the needs of families from CLD backgrounds (Soto & Yu, 2014; Tönsing & Soto, 2021). This presentation will describe ways in which easily accessible assessment tools such as the Communication Matrix (Rowland, 2001) and the Vocabulary Selection Questionnaire for Preschoolers Who Use AAC (Fallon et al., 2001) can be used to gain family input on the selection and design of AAC systems. In addition, we will explore customization options for enhancing cultural relevancy using AssistiveWare’s Proloquo2Go, a popular AAC application for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Learn More and Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
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01/10/2022

Hurry! Don’t miss out! Looking forward to seeing you all at our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! Today, we’re highlighting our keynote speakers and presenters, Valerie Volkert, PhD, BCBA, Erin Gustafson, MS, CCC-SLP, Rachelle Centor Berry, MPH, MS, RDN, LD, addressing “Culturally Sensitive and Effective Collaborative Practices When Addressing Feeding Challenges in Children with Autism”. Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
Expert consensus increasingly recognizes intensive multidisciplinary intervention (IMI) as the standard of care to address chronic and severe feeding problems (otherwise known as Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder [ARFID] or Pediatric Feeding Disorder [PFD]) in pediatric populations. The multidisciplinary team at the Children’s Multidisciplinary Feeding Program is comprised of psychologists (behavior analysts), a physician, a nurse practitioner, registered dietitians, speech-language pathologists, an occupational therapist, and a social worker. During this presentation, we aim to discuss the role of each discipline in the treatment of ARFID/PFD and how these disciplines collaborate as a team. We will also highlight how we foster parent engagement and their participation during the span of their child’s admission to the program while being sensitive to cultural differences.
Learn More and Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
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01/07/2022

Hurry! Don’t miss out! Looking forward to seeing you all at our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! Today, we’re highlighting our keynote speaker and presenter, Landria Seals Green, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA, addressing “Considerations for Navigating the Cultural Social Landscape of Play”. Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
Play, Positionality, and Expectations. How do these intersect? As professionals, we develop and implement plans to improve social play skills in children with autism and related disorders. Yet, as people, our positionality may guide our resource and tool selection when it comes to what is prioritized on the social play skills lists for our clients. When our clients and learners enter into the landscape with their peers, the cultural social expectations of that learning environment guide the rules of play.
This workshop will guide the clinical designer and implementer to consider the intersectionality between what we teach and what clients need in the social environments they enter. This understanding of play and social skills as broad categories requires us to design and cultivate play skills based upon both developmental play expectations and the learning environments children encounter.
Learn More and Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
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01/03/2022

Hurry! Don’t miss out! Looking forward to seeing you all at our VIRTUAL NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Conference (IPAC)! Today, we’re highlighting our keynote speaker and presenter, Trina Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D, addressing “Finding My Story: An Interprofessional Journey to Overcome Disciplinary Centrism” and “Collaboratively Supporting Academic Language of Autistic Students: The Intersection of Neurodiversity and Cultural Reciprocity”. Register at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
Disciplinary centrism occurs when one believes professionals from one’s own discipline are better trained and smarter than professionals from a different discipline. While this is largely an unconscious bias, it frequently causes barriers to effective interprofessional collaboration. Akin to disciplinary centrism is ableism, which is discrimination in favor of abled-bodied people. Both ableism and disciplinary centrism are culturally determined and learned through our professional training. In this keynote address, Dr. Spencer will describe her own journey as she strives to overcome disciplinary centrism and ableism. Drawing from her experience as a storytelling researcher, she will apply the power of narratives to expose disciplinary centric and ableist attitudes. She will briefly present alternatives to ableism and disciplinary centrism that allow for the retention of one’s professional identity and promote cultural humility. Wielding narrative as a sense-making device, culturally humble professionals move beyond disciplinary centrism and ableism to embrace the professional identities of their colleagues and the self-determination of the individuals they serve.
Academic language is the language used in school to acquire and express knowledge. It is specialized in its form and function. Awareness of the structures and purposes of academic language can assist educators and clinicians to acknowledge strengths of autistic students and identify areas worthy of intervention. In this presentation, Dr. Spencer will provide an overview of academic language and evidence-based interventions to promote it, offer several principles to guide the tailoring of interventions that honor individual students’ neurodiversity, and introduce cultural determiners that enhance interprofessional collaborations.
Learn More and Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx
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12/30/2021

Registration is Open! Join me at the 2022 NJSHA 6th Interprofessional Autism Virtual Conference (IPAC) “Promoting Culturally Responsive Collaborative Practices”! IPAC2022 brings together distinguished professionals from different disciplines to inform on a framework for applying effective, evidence-based ethical interprofessional education and collaborative practices, identify challenges to collaboration and provide suggestions to addressing them through the lens of culturally aware practices, by adopting behaviors that embody cultural humility and responsiveness. Date: Saturday, January 29, 2022
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Learn More and Register Today at: https://lnkd.in/eM-ccaqx

12/15/2021

I am so grateful and want to thank all who made it possible to surpass my fundraising goal for Association for Science in Autism Treatment, and for all those who cheered me on to complete my first personal challenge half triathlon (10K bike, 3K run, 8K row)! We crossed the finish line TOGETHER and YOUR contributions and support will surely help culturally and linguistically diverse families and consumers access effective science based autism treatment! https://asatonline.org/what-we-do/mission/

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