NASP Summer Conferences

Nashville, TN: July 26-28, 2010

Conference General Sessions

Presenter biographies are available here.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
8:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Executive Functioning in Children and Adolescents: Assessment and Intervention (3 credit hours)
Peg Dawson, EdD, NCSP, Center for Learning and Attention Disorders, Portsmouth, NH

This session will provide a contemporary overview of executive skills and how they impact school performance. As a result of their attendance, participants will: (a) be able to identify how executive skills impact school performance and daily living within a developmental context, (b) know how to assess executive skills using a variety of methods, (c) have access to a repertoire of strategies to improve executive skills in students, and (d) understand how a three-tiered, response-to-intervention model is ideally suited to meet the needs of students with a broad range of executive skill weaknesses, including classroom-wide interventions, small group strategies, and individual support plans.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
1:15–4:30 p.m.

Practical Strategies for Working With Chronically Disruptive and Disturbed Youth (3 credit hours)
Deborah Peek Crockett, PhD, NCSP, Fayette County Board of Education, GA

The number of students removed from traditional schools due to chronically disruptive behaviors has steadily increased. Alternative education has become the program of choice for many school systems for students for whom traditional positive behavioral approaches have not been successful. Many of these students present with problems ranging from gang involvement to chronic mental health challenges. Singularly and in groups, the resilience and survival behaviors that are needed vary and must be individualized. The purpose of this session is to share how one school system is successfully addressing the needs of this student population.

At its conclusion, individuals attending this session will identify the following school-based strategies:

• How to match students and teachers for optimum success.
• How to develop an effective student treatment plan.
• How to monitor and modify the treatment plan throughout the student’s tenure.
• How to transition to a traditional school setting.