The complete program for unlocking your child’s full potential.
Uniquely designed to rapidly increase your knowledge of your own child’s sensory, emotional, thinking, learning and behavioural patterns. It will provide you with invaluable information and empower you with the skills and practical know-how to create a powerful vision for your child’s treatment, giving you confidence and hope.
You will learn some of the most effective strategies, techniques and therapy ideas to help your child. We show you what to do and take the time to explain exactly how to do it in ways that are easy to understand and apply. Without even realising it, you will be creating a powerful, respectful, fun and motivating learning environment for your child. They will love it!
Created by Monique Simpson; Autism Specialist, Speech Pathologist and founder of Connect Therapy, the program incorporates over 10 years of knowledge and experience in one package that we truly believe is one of the most effective ways to help your child reach their full potential.
The Complete Training Program includes...
- The complete series of 8 step-by-step, powerful, educational DVD's - Over 10 hours of face-to-face therapy and training with some of the best information on autism available, that will greatly increase your understanding of your child and develop your skills.
- The 100+ page Program Training Manual full of valuable exercises and critical information about your child.
- Fantastic therapy techniques and tips from 10 years of clinical experience and research, all in one package.
- The 3 Bonus Audios ($90.00 value) - 2 hours of Monique's best recommendations and advice on how to help improve your child's language, listening and social skills.
- Personal Email support with Monique for the duration of the program
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Volume 1 - Who I Am
This is an important start to your journey with your child.
It
is essential that you first understand more about how a typical person
senses, thinks and feels, the different learning styles and types of
behaviour before you can begin to understand and help a more
complicated individual like your child with autism. This DVD lays a
brilliant foundation for having the greatest impact on your child's
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Volume 2 - Sense Part 1
Sense
Part 1 looks at the way your child receives and processes information
in order to get through his/her day, where they are breaking down and
what you can do about it.
It is so important to
have a good understanding of your child's sensory processing because it
is a crucial element to all learning.
People with
autism have difficulty interpreting the world around them, which is
often related to challenges with sensory processing. If they are not
processing the incoming 'sensory' information correctly they will
misinterpret situations, making life very difficult for them.
- How the various sensory systems can affect crucial areas of your child's development.
- Discover exactly where your child is breaking down in their sensory processing.
- Discover
a variety of strategies that will help your child stay calm and
organized in their body so that they can function at their peak
throughout the day.
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Volume 3 - Sense Part 2
In Sense part 2 we explore what you can do at home to help your child process information and learn more effectively.
I show you how to carry out particular activities with your child and work on their specific challenges. This DVD is very practical and there are loads of strategies that you can begin using immediately!
- Find out if your child has any specific issues that can affect feeding and talking.
- Learn how to treat your child's feeding issues.
- Discover
an abundant different touch, movement and visual activities that will
assist in the development of your child's sensory systems.
- How to analyze, understand and treat your child's repetitive behaviors and rituals.
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Volume 4 - Feel
Understanding
and being able to manage your child's challenging emotions is
incredibly important to help your child learn more effectively and
enable them to lead a calm, happy and fulfilling life.
The
Feel DVD will teach you what is going on in your child's head when they
are experiencing emotions such as stress, fear and anger and what you
can do to help your child calm down as quickly and as effectively as
possible.
- Understand how your child's brain functions when they are trying to process stressful emotions.
- Find out why your child seems so much more emotional than other individuals.
- Discover strategies that you can use when your child is experiencing low and high levels of stress and anxiety
- How
to put together a simple plan for your child that will help them remain
calm throughout their day and in a much better state for learning.
- Learn some simple strategies that you can put in place throughout your day to keep yourself as calm and relaxed as possible.
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Volume 5 - Think
This DVD takes you inside your child's mind to work out what they are thinking,
comparing their thought processing patterns with a typical child. Understanding
these important differences is essential to helping you connect more effectively
with your child because you have a greater appreciation of how he or she
ticks.
I take you through the different parts of the brain and use other
interesting teaching tools to help explain to you concepts like
- motor planning,
- executive functioning
- theory of mind
- attention tunneling
- and much more
Do not worry if these terms don’t make much sense to
you right now. I take the time to explain each of them in simple and easy to
follow language. This information is critical to the understanding of your
child or the clients that you treat.
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Volume 6 - Learn Part 1
This DVD takes a practical look at ways of working on your child's language and communication development. It contains vital information that will assist your child's learning in these areas.
- How can you assist your child's language development
- Help your child to listen and understand language more effectively.
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Discover how you can maximize your child's ability to remember the
information they are being taught and how to help them use these skills
in other settings.
- How to analyze your child's communication skills
- Discover how your child forms memories
- Uncover the questions that you need to ask yourself when trying to generate goals for your child.
- Gain tips that will help your child process and learn instructions, questions and concepts faster and more effectively.
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Volume 7 - Learn Part 2
Children
with autism are often incredibly visual learners. In this DVD you will
learn how you can maximize this strength so you can help your child
learn concepts, communication, social skills, self help and many other
skills in the fastest way possible.
Learn Part 2 is a comprehensive 'how to' guide. It gives you a complete overview of the many visual strategies that you can use with your child such as social stories, scheduling, video modeling, picture sequences, comic strips etc.
We actually go into the home of one of our families
and show you how you can practically implement these techniques
throughout your child's day. You will be able to get started with many
of the ideas straight away.
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Learn about all the different types of visual strategies that you could
use with your child- photos, symbols, social stories, video modeling,
comic strips, scheduling, picture sequences etc
- Determine which visual strategies are suitable for your child.
- Discover how to maximize your child's connection with the visual strategies you are implementing for best results.
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Volume 8 - Behave
Knowing how to understand and manage your child's behavior is essential if you
want your child to be as happy and relaxed as possible.
The Behave DVD deals with the behavior of children with autism and gives you powerful tools and strategies that you can use to analyze and manage your child's different behaviors
in the most effective and practical way. You will be empowered with the
information to uncover what is really going on for your child when they
are behaving in unusual ways.
- Find out how to analyze your child's behavior
- Learn how to carry out a 'task analysis' that will help you pitch activities at the right complexity level for your child.
- Be taught about a variety of 'touch' learning strategies.
- Thoroughly analyze one instance of a 'troubling time' for your child.
- Discover an abundance of ways of dealing with your child's inappropriate behavior
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Autism Essentials Training Manual
Over 100 pages full of critical lessons, exercises and information about your child.
The manual is clearly laid out into chapters to correspond with each of the DVD's.
The information is easy to understand and the exercises are motivating
and fun. It will help you understand your child in a wide variety of
developmental areas as well as taking a closer look at specific
behavior and emotional issues.
You will also receive these incredible Bonus Audios - $90 value
Instant audio downloads you will be able to access the minute you order. These audios are our latest products and contain vital information that is incredibly fundamental to successfully improving your child's development, social skills, communication skills and ability to learn new things.
The concepts, tips and strategies discussed are some of Monique's most guarded secrets and cover the very same techniques that she uses with her clients every week to achieve such amazing results.
With just a few mouse clicks you could have acccess to the knowledge to start helping your child's listening, talking and social skills today. Plus even if you decide to return the program, all 3 audios will be yours to keep!
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Autism Essentials - Audio #1
7 Steps to Unlocking Your Child's Social Skills
This audio reveals the 7 fundamental steps needed for building strong social skills and a solid foundation for all future learning. It shows you how to help your child build amazing relationships with you and others and as a result, learn far more effectively.
The reason children with autism find this so challenging is because often they have not learnt the necessary skills that typically develop in the first 12-18 months of life. With these essential building blocks in place, you will be able to teach your child the many things that you dream for them; great communication and conversation skills, socialisation with peers, compliance, improved behaviour and day to day functioning, academic skills etc, etc. In order to achieve these goals and aspirations for your child this audio is a great way to start
It is these fundamental 'socialisation' skills that teach your child the joys of interacting and learning from others, which is critical to their development. Without going back and addressing these skills, a child with autism will continue to develop in a ‘disordered’ way. This audio will help create a great foundation for all future social skills training in your child’s life! |
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Autism Essentials - Audio #2
How to Help Your Child Listen and Learn? Equips you with powerful strategies to greatly improve your child's ability to listen and consequently learn. This
audio (downloadable recording) addresses the frustrations of your child
not listening to you. While most parents would agree this aspect is not
limited to children on the spectrum, it is almost always more prevalent
in children with autism.
In this audio I specifically address the areas of…
- Multiprocessing and how challenges in this area of development can affect your child’s listening and comprehension abilities
- How to pitch your language at the ‘just right’ level to facilitate your child’s comprehension
- How to know which aspect of language you should be targeting next
- Tips on how to help your child follow instructions that you ask of him/her
- Improving the way that you talk to your child so that they are driven to listen to you
- Increasing your
child’s auditory attention to language so that you do not feel that you
need to repeat yourself over and over again
- How you can use visual supports to help improve auditory listening and comprehension skills
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Autism Essentials - Audio #3
How Can I Help My Child to Talk?
This audio is 60 minutes long and will walk you through some simple things you can do right now to prepare your child for talking. It isn't magic but it is a powerful step by step guide with easy to follow strategies you can begin using immediately to help your child talk.
Suitable for both verbal and non-verbal children. NOTE: If your child is already using language, this audio can be very helpful in building the foundation skills to assist them in using language even more effectively.
Many
children with Autism have not developed the foundation skills necessary
for early speech development. These 'Pre-Communication Skills'
typically develop in children in the first 12-18 months. However this
is often not the case for children with Autism, which is why they
struggle so much with communication. It
doesn't matter whether your child is 12 months or 15 years of age, they
still need to develop these foundation skills first, in order to be
able to use their language effectively. It is possible!
This
is also often the reason why children have so much trouble learning to
comment about their immediate experiences and what they did at
preschool/school because they do not have the fundamental
social-communication skills that drive them to want to use their
language in this way. As I have
experienced with all my clients, I can assure you that when these
foundation skills are in place, the language just follows!
More specifically this recording will give you the knowledge and skills to…
- Improve your child’s desire to communicate with you
- Help your child to be more interested when communicating with you
- Help increase your child's attention span when communicating with you.
- How to respond to your child’s tantrums and crying and other forms of inappropriate communication.
- How
advancing your child’s non-verbal communication (eg: facial
expressions, gesturing, pointing etc) will help lead to effective use
of language
- Improve your child’s control over their lips, tongue, jaw and voice for speech
- ...and lots more
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The Benefits of Learning Through DVDs
Benefits for Parents:
- Professionals often don’t have time during your appointments/sessions to train and
educate you. So this training is vital because you spend more time than
anyone else with your child and can therefore make the greatest impact
on a day-to-day basis, if you know how.
- It is a much more cost effective way of intensively being trained by a specialist in autism
- You can watch these DVDs at a time that suits you (eg: when the kids have gone to bed)
- It is an effective and interesting way to learn information (rather than through books) as most people are visual learners
- You can view the material over and over again so that you understand and retain the information
- You can lend the program to your child’s teachers to help train them and to help ensure that your child’s program is holistic
Benefits for Professionals:
- It is an interesting and effective way of learning an enormous amount of information in a short period of time
- This DVD program saves you the time of having to find high quality and effective information yourself
- It is more cost effective than attending courses and taking leave from work
- It's a great way of training other staff members and increasing their knowledge in a short period of time