AEP Connections | Anxiety, Social Relationships and Processing Speed: A Guide to Understanding its Impact with Students

May 2, 2024, 11:00 AM - 3:15 PM ET

Virtual Program

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We live in a world where quick responding is considered an essential skill; however, many children feel left behind. Difficulties with processing speed cut across disorders such as learning disabilities, developmental disorders, and ADHD. Anxiety is a key feature for many children and adolescents with slow processing speed and social relationships can present challenges. This seminar will present an overview of processing speed and its relationship to today’s quick-paced lifestyles, classroom environments, and home lives. The biology and neuropsychology of processing speed and anxiety will be presented, in addition to how it manifests in classrooms and social relationships, and what professionals and parents can do to accommodate and help their students overcome it.

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The target audience includes Special Education teachers, Speech and Language Pathologists, OTs, counselors, regular education teachers, administrators, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, PTs, principals, nurses, parents, and anyone who works with someone on the autism spectrum, ADHD, or other learning disabilities. This webinar is open to anyone who is interested in attending. Content is appropriate for individuals who support elementary through high school age students.

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Learning Objectives:

• The participants will define and describe three behaviors associated with slow processing speed and how they present in the classroom and/or home settings.

• The participants will identify and describe 2 new findings from research on the association between slow processing speed and academic performance.

• The participants will identify two of the neurobiological influences of slow processing speed.

• The participants will describe the association between slow processing speed and anxiety.

• The participants will identify and summarize three effective social skills treatments or accommodations for youth with slow processing speed.

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Please click here to learn more and to register: https://aepconnections.com/webinar-registrations/anxiety-social-relationships-and-processing-speed-a-guide-to-understanding-its-impact-with-students/