Glenbard Parent Series event: Teaching Social Skills to Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present A Systematic Approach to Teaching Social Interpersonal Skills to Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Difficulties with Scott Bellini on Thursday, Feb. 4.

Bellini wrote "Building Social Relationships," which was named the 2007 Literary Work of the Year by the Autism Society of America. The Feb. 4 workshop will provide an overview of Bellini's Building Social Relationships model, which helps guide parents and practitioners in developing and implementing social skills programming. The session will provide the foundation for the model and outline how to assess social functioning and evaluate outcomes.

This free event will begin at noon Feb. 4 at the Marquardt School District 15 Administration Center, 1860 Glen Ellyn Road in Glendale Heights.

Participants will:

• Increase knowledge of social and emotional functioning

• Increase awareness of the relationship between skill deficits and social anxiety

• Develop skills necessary to assess social functioning

• Increase awareness of skill acquisition vs. performance deficits

• Increase awareness of evidence-based social skill strategies

• Develop skills necessary to implement social skills strategies

CPDUs are available for education professionals.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, DuPage Medical Group, Emmy Gaffey Foundation and Trust Company of Illinois.

For more information, visit glenbardgps.org or contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at 942-7668 or gilda_ross@glenbard.org.