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START Building Your Future Project

This presentation aims to assist adult service providers in supporting individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to overcome challenges and maximize opportunities. Topics include understanding ASD, social difficulties, employment issues, and strategies for improved quality of life. The session delves into the dignity of risk, making associations, and problem-solving techniques to enhance support for adults with ASD.

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START Building Your Future Project

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  1. START Building Your Future Project Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Adults with ASD

  2. Looking at ASD Differently in Adults SMAC Building Your Future

  3. RCNs START Supporting Each ISD Across the State to Improve Outcomes for Students with ASD

  4. Adults with ASD Employment, Higher Education, Community Involvement, Independent Living, Leisure and Quality of Life

  5. Intent of this Presentation This presentation is designed to assist adult service providers who are supporting people with Autism Spectrum Disorder navigate the complexities of this disability.

  6. Agenda • Numbers of Adults with ASD • What is ASD? • Interference of High Interest Areas • Literal Interpretation of Information • Misunderstanding of Social Situations • Lack of Social Reciprocity – Inflated Ego • Hypersensitivity to the Environment • Difficulty Staying Employed • Hygiene Issues • Responding to Others Needs • Truth at all Costs

  7. Michigan Students With an ASD Eligibility

  8. Number of Michigan Students with ASD by Age

  9. What Does This Crisis Feel Like for Students with ASD and their Parents and Families?

  10. How About an Example • Engineering Degree from Michigan Institute of Technology • Masters in Engineering from U of M • Fired from GM and Ford • Fired from Several of the Suppliers (Consulting Firms to the Big 3) • What about when his Mom Died? • What Is He Doing Now?

  11. The Dignity of Risk Guiding Principles and Discovery

  12. The Dignity of Risk – Robert Perske The world in which we live is not always safe, secure and predictable. Every day that we wake up and live in the hours of that day, there is a possibility of being thrown up against a situation where we may have to risk everything, even our lives. This is the way the real world is. We must work to develop every human resource within us in order to prepare for these days. To deny any person their fair share of risk experience is to further cripple them for healthy living.

  13. So…How are the Service Agencies Supporting Adults with ASD Going to Manage this Explosion… By Looking At Autism Spectrum Disorder Differently

  14. Looking at ASD Differently • Respect for what has happened in the past… • While implementing what must happen in the future!

  15. Making Associations – Right or Wrong

  16. Pairing/Making Associations • Determine the behavior • Pair a material or place with the behavior • Practice the pairing until the association is made • Once the association is made reduce the size of the material or the opportunity to have access to the place where the behavior can occur

  17. Examples of Pairing • Terrance – Spitting • Break Card

  18. PairingTerrance - Spitting • Search for Desirable Surface • Determine the Desirable Surface • Flood the Environment • Practice the Association • Association is Made • Modify

  19. Pairing/Making Associations • Behavior • Material or Area • Practice – Breakdown occurs here • Modify

  20. Break Card BREAK

  21. Problem and Solution SOLUTION PROBLEM SOLUTION SOLUTION J.Janzen, Understanding the Nature of Autism

  22. Problem and Solution PROBLEM SOLUTION PROBLEM PROBLEM J.Janzen, Understanding the Nature of Autism

  23. Sets the Stage… For What is Coming Next

  24. Life, Animated Quote “He has no sense of “supposed tos” because he can’t read all those looks, expressions of favor or disfavor, the ripple in the crowd, borne within each passing moment that builds into life. That means he doesn’t know what you’re supposed to do in the library – as opposed to a playground – or what movies most eight-year olds are watching… Owen is driven, shaped, and guided by what bubbles up, often quite mysteriously, from within. There are plenty of self-directed urges in everyone. It’s just that our impulse instantly slams against our lightening-fast assessment of context. The atmospheric zone created by that collision is Behavior”.

  25. Pairing/Making AssociationsErroneous Association Facial Hair – Jerrod

  26. May Cause Concerns • Interference of High Interest Areas • Literal Interpretation of Information • Misunderstanding of Social Situations • Lack of Social Reciprocity – Inflated Ego • Hypersensitivity to the Environment • Difficulty Staying Employed • Hygiene Issues • Responding to Others Needs • Truth at all Costs

  27. Interference of High Interest Areas • Driven by high interest areas • Provides person with ASD: • Predictability • Structure and organization • Shows knowledge

  28. Interference of High Interest Areas • Causes people without ASD to feel: • Discounted • What they are saying is not valued or heard • Disrespected • Feelings lead to actions such as: • Stop doing that – Shut down High Interest • Discounting who the person with ASD is • Ignoring or moving away

  29. Interference of High Interest Areas Results • Person with ASD is driven to do this • Asked to stop doing this may lead to: • Talking to self about high interest • Acting out high interest • Others without ASD may: • Determine person with ASD unstable • Determine person with ASD incompetent

  30. Interference of High Interest Areas - 4 Strategies

  31. Strategy #1 • Not No…Where and When • Negotiate Breaks to Pursue Interest Area – Marty – The Price is Right • Use Technology to Record Interest Area to View at a Later Time

  32. Not No… Where and When

  33. Marty The Price is Right Lunch Break – 11:00-12:00

  34. Watch High Interest on Breaks

  35. Embed into Schedule

  36. Strategy #2 • Embed Interest Area into JobExpectation • Explanation of Work Expectation Using High Interest Area • Organize Expectations Using High Interest Area

  37. The Jedi Code

  38. Flight Plan

  39. Flight Plan Continued

  40. Instruction Sign

  41. Strategy #3 • Capture Information and Give to Person with ASD • Pause video and take a picture • Print Picture • Person keeps important information with them

  42. TV Information

  43. TV Information Continued

  44. You Cut Your Hand

  45. What Would You Do? Let’s Go To the Board

  46. Picture Representation: ON

  47. Picture Representation: IN Picture Representation: In

  48. Picture Representation: Under Picture representation: Under

  49. Strategy #4 • Find group/place where interest area has value • Thrift Stores • Dan and WRIF

  50. Questions about High Interest Areas?

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