The five key (frequently-violated) aspects of the autistic brain and nervous system that we must follow in order for people on the autism spectrum to feel safe, be regulated, learn, interact, and fundamentally function – and in order for your therapy and efforts to maximally pay off

A way to detect the (frequently-changing) brain state that a person on the spectrum is in at any given moment so that we can adjust our approach to match – an absolutely necessary missing piece for therapists, educators, and other professionals

The much-used approach of taking the autism world by storm enables dysregulated kids and adults to feel safe… preventing meltdowns, anxiety, and extreme/explosive behaviors 

Concrete steps to take specifically with highly verbal people to defuse inflammatory statements, desires, or decisions in way that is conflict-free and feels safe to them… and enable them to grow socially by exploring and problem-solving challenges (events, feelings, recurring thoughts, ongoing issues, shyness, anxiety) that are bothering them and thinking through the social and other consequences of potential decisions, extreme responses, magical thinking, belligerence, etc. – without you having to push, contradict, threaten, scold, or debate.

High-level expertise (from two very experienced people who have been working with parents from over 100 different countries for decades) on the best ways to communicate with parents and the most effective ways to teach them the 5 Natural Laws of Autism and the ACT protocol – which you will be qualified to do (and will be provided with superb, fully-rendered handouts for the parents) after taking the course

• How to handle your biggest challenges and trickiest scenarios
• To be an expert at preventing meltdowns and extreme or explosive behavior
• Lengthening and strengthening social attention span
• The way out of cycles of button-pushing (where a client/student does certain things to get a reaction out of you or others)
• Avoiding control battles
• Defusing inflammatory statements, desires, or decisions with highly verbal clients/students on the spectrum
• The Timing of Teaching: Know when to teach or challenge and when not to
• Neuro-State Detection: How to Identify precisely which neuro-state your client/student is in at any given moment
• The Neuro-State Match: How to attune to the neuro-state of your client/student
• What Neuro-Crashes are, what causes them, and how to prevent them
• How to facilitate coercion-free learning and growth

• Keys to building trust with your clients/students
• Setting non-blurry boundaries with your clients/students
• Effective approaches to teaching and promoting life skills
• Cornerstones of social interaction/socialization
• Circumventing crying, hitting, spitting, screaming, pinching, swearing, and similar behaviors
• Promoting in your clients/students a willingness to try new things and to be more comfortable with things not going as they wish or expect
• Enhancing engagement, participation, and interaction
• Increasing your clients’/students’ motivation
• Dealing with your own discomfort
• Becoming immune to being tripped up and flustered
• Overcoming and greatly reducing your own stress
• What to do when your clients/students are not engaged

• Maximizing the times when your clients/students are engaged
• How to make your environment most conducive to regulation, reduced control battles, better behavior, and learning
• Facilitating the mental health of your students/clients
• Facilitating the mental health of yourself
• Helping your students/clients feel safe
• Exactly how to handle stims
• How to approach self-harming behaviors
• Helping your students/clients with emotional regulation
• Dealing with challenging parental situations
• Getting parents on board
• Creating a real connection with parents
• Teaching concepts to parents in a way they will understand and be able to use
• Dealing with distressed or dysregulated parents
• Setting non-blurry boundaries with parents