Supporting Neurodivergent Students in a Community College Setting (General & Administrative Issues)

COURSE REGISTRATION FOR WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE STAFF ONLY!

Enrollment Limited to: No limit
Contact Hrs: 2
CEU’s: 2

This course has been designed to address concerns brought up by the staff working with students on the spectrum at Westchester Community College. The course will provide an orientation to the way ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) is defined (via the DSM 5) and how it can manifest in the community college setting. The course will focus on best practice strategies for managing the challenges that come up for many students on the spectrum in their first college experience. These issues include that which is interpersonal such as the risk of social isolation as well as the intrapersonal such as accessing the emotional regulation skills necessary to meet new social and academic challenges.

Method: Lecture, discussion

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify ways in which neurodivergent students may present in the community college setting including social styles and behaviors.
• Participants will deepen their understanding of what the ASD student might be challenged by in this setting in terms of executive functioning skills and how to best accommodate these needs in this setting.
• Participants will have an opportunity to consider their own perspective when it comes to the delicate balance of responding to the needs of a student with ASD while adhering to the college’s code of conduct.
• Participants will be able to generate ideas about how to create needed support systems and social networks for the ASD students at the college.

Instructors: Kenneth Mann, PsyD.

Location: Live Via Zoom

Westchester Jewish Community Services is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0101, and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW0067 and by The New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0313

Please note: To receive CE credits, one must attend the entirety of the class. Partial credit will not be awarded to those who attend only a portion of the class. Therefore, late arrival or an early departure of greater than 10 minutes constitutes not attending a class in its entirety. To document attendance, participants must sign in and out of the class and complete an evaluation at the end of each class.