What's The Socially Speaking® Program & Seminar and how can they help you help your students? We can see first-hand the impact of a child’s problematic social behaviors on learning and on getting along with others. In particular, readiness to learn appropriate social skills can be an area of real challenge for children with Autism. This program will introduce the Socially Speaking® Program. It is designed to foster social communication skills by teaching self-regulation, shaping specific play skills such as Cause & Effect play schemas, and facilitating verbal reasoning and rejecting skills. This course is designed to teach attendees to use play as a portal to developing self-regulation and pragmatic skills, and pre-literacy skills as a portal for academic and vocational success. For more information and to see the brochure, visit the PDF Page on website: www.sociallyspeakingLLC.com. To contact Penina Rybak MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH (speaker), Email: penina.sociallyspeaking@gmail.com.

1. TIME-ORDERED AGENDA
8:00-8:30 Registration and Sign-in
8:30-9:45 Introduction to Self-Regulation Issues in Children with
Autism
❖ The Roots of Problematic Behaviors; Cognitive Symptomology
❖ Preventive Measures to Counteract “Crisis Intervention”
❖ Behavior Management Using Indirect Clinical Intervention
❖ An Overview of FBA and the ABC Chart
❖ Clinical Considerations for Remediation
9:45-10:00 Fifteen Minute Break
10:00-11:45 Behavior Management Using Direct Clinical Intervention
with Visual Supports
❖ Visual Strategies™ Technique
❖ Social Stories™ Technique
❖ REPLAYS™ Technique
11:45-12:45 Lunch On Your Own (it is recommended to bring lunch
due to parking)
12:45-2:00 A Developmental Framework for Assessing Social
Communication Skills
❖ The Importance of Play
❖ The Socially Speaking™ Play Stages Formula for Assessment &
Intervention
❖ The Socially Speaking™ Social Skills Assessment Protocol
❖ The Importance of Pre-Literacy Skills and the Pre-Reading Readi-
ness Hierarchy
Humor: The Missing Puzzle Piece of a Social Skills Curriculum
❖ Two Types of Humor and Developmental Considerations
❖ Clinical Implications for Remediation
2:00-2:15 Fifteen Minute Break
2:15-3:30 A Suggested Framework for Treating Social Skills
Challenges
❖ The Socially Speaking™ “Social Skills Kits”: Suggestions for Verbal
Rejection, Greetings, Turn Taking, Respecting Boundaries, Problem
Solving, and more!
❖ Case Studies
❖ Group Collaboration Activity to Internalize the Subject Matter
3:30-4:00 Conclusion/Closing Remarks
❖ Q & A
❖ Quick Look At Suggested Resources
LEARNER OBJECTIVES
Following this program, attendees will be able to:
 List the developmental prerequisite skills children need before
developing better social communication skills.
 Describe the role of causality and humor in facilitating later
problem solving skills.
 List indirect and direct clinical intervention methods to foster
compliance, to bridge the gap between readiness to learn and
actual performance.
 List treatment strategies to promote targeted social skills.
TheHagedornLittleVillageSchool
JackJoelCenterforSpecialChildren
750HicksvilleRd.Seaford,NewYork11783
NON-PROFIT
U.S.POSTAGE
PAID
BELLMORE,N.Y.11710
PERMITNo.707
Presents
April 21, 2017
Presenter:
Penina Pearl Rybak MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH
Registration 8:00am
Conference 8:30am - 4:00pm
.6 CEUs offered
Level: Intermediate ▪ Professional Area
The Hagedorn Little Village School
Jack Joel Center For Special Children
750 Hicksville Rd. Seaford, New York 11783
www.littlevillage.org • information@littlevillage.org
(516) 520-6000 Fax: (516) 520-6080
Practical & Playful Strategies
for Autism Intervention:
A Socially Speaking® Seminar

2. Program Description
This course is offered for 0.6 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate
Level, Professional Area) We can see first hand the
impact of a child’s problematic social behaviors on learn-
ing and on getting along with others. In particular, readi-
ness to learn appropriate social skills can be an area of
real challenge for children with Autism. This program will
introduce the Socially Speaking® Program. It is designed
to foster social communication skills by teaching self
regulation, shaping specific play skills such as Cause &
Effect play schemas, and facilitating verbal reasoning and
rejecting skills. This course is designed to teach attendees
to use play as a portal to developing self regulation and
pragmatic skills, and pre-literacy skills as a portal for aca-
demic and vocational success. Problematic behaviors
arise from a child’s disconnect with his/her environment
and those in it. Inappropriate social behaviors serve a
purpose for children, and that purpose needs to be
explored. Learn how to explore the purpose of the inap-
propriate behavior. Learn to identify behavioral triggers,
starting points for remediation, and ways to bridge the
gap between readiness to learn and actual performance.
Learn to shift from a crisis intervention paradigm to one
that proactively and consistently improves the child’s self
regulation and social communication. More consistent,
preventive behavior management fosters better anchor-
ing to the environment i.e. orientation to person/
place/time. More concrete, sequential, and practical
strategies involving Whole Body Learning emphasizing the
visual modality, can truly facilitate social communication
skills; especially Body Awareness, Expressing Feelings, and
Problem Solving. Attendees will develop indirect and
direct clinical methods of intervention, involving pre-
literacy language concepts and understanding and using
humor. Attendees will also gain insight into decreasing
“situation specific” and “splintered” acquisition of skills,
increasing consistency of performance and Theory of
Mind, and understanding readiness indicators for assess-
ment and treatment.
Target Audience
▪ Speech Pathologists, Psychologists, and Special Educators
Speaker
Financial & Non-Financial Disclosure
Financial:
Penina Rybak receives both intellectual property rights and royal-
ties from Apple™ Inc. for the sale of the Socially Speaking™ iPad®
App in iTunes. Penina received honorarium for this event from
The Hagedorn Little Village School.
Non Financial:
Penina Rybak is a current member of the American Speech-
Language-Hearing Association and has been a stateside advisor
to the CLASP International Autism Clinic in Zambia, Africa, for
which she consults probono.
Registration Form
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The Hagedorn Little Village School
Jack Joel Center For Special Children
750 Hicksville Rd. Seaford, New York 11783
To pay on-line, go to www.littlevillage.org and select
“Professional Workshops”. Click: ASHA and then scroll down and
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Refund Policy: A handling fee of $10.00 is deducted for cancellation.
Refund request must be received by mail/phone two business days
prior to the conference. No refunds will be made thereafter.
For further information, please contact Kimberly Neary or Jessica
Resnick (516) 520-6076 or email at ashace@littlevillage.org
Presenter
Penina Rybak, MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH is a practicing, pediatric
speech-language pathologist and educational technology
consultant, who earned her master’s degree from New
York University. She has been practicing for two decades,
and has specialized in the treatment of young children with
Autism/ special needs, in home-based early intervention,
center-based preschool intervention, self- contained
school-age classrooms, and private practice. Penina partici-
pated in the 1995-2000 NY TRAID Project, in conjunction
with the Westchester Institute of Human Development,
which worked to integrate Apple™ technology into special
education classrooms. She also spearheaded The Board-
maker™ Initiative, from 2008-2010, which worked on cus-
tomizing curriculum needs and implementing behavior
management strategies at a charter school in New York. It
resulted in her launch of her Socially Speaking® Program,
seminars, iPad® App, and textbook; Autism Intervention in
the iEra. Penina has lectured since 2010 about customizing
social communication strategies, the developmental inte-
gration of iOS Apps into treatment, and early childhood
play based assessment and intervention. She advocates
the use of an eclectic, multi-sensory treatment approach,
using customized lesson plans involving toys and tech. For
more information visit her website:
www.sociallyspeakingLLC.com.
Location and Directions
The Hagedorn Little Village School, Jack Joel Center for
Special Children is located at 750 Hicksville Road in Sea-
ford, N.Y. The building is on the west side of Hicksville
Road, set back from the street. Directions can be found on
our website www.littlevillage.org under the “Contact Us”
tab.
This course is offered for .6 ASHA CEUs
(Intermediate level, Professional area)