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Training, Workshops, Seminars, Talks by Sibylle Janert
Sibylle Janert offers training and lectures, and has been invited to speak in the
UK by Social Services, Primary Care Trusts, Child Development Teams,
Bangladeshi Women's and Parents' groups, Primary and ASD Schools, Oxford
Autism Education Service and university. Her engagements in Germany count
as part of the governments professional development scheme for doctors and
other professionals, and she has held seminars at the Autism Institutes in
Tübingen and Langen, Bremen University, the Psychoanalytic Institute Hannover
and Bremen, and advised on children in African village schools.
Popular Topics
- The Autism Debate: Is Autism a 'Thing' the Child 'Has', or What?
The numbers of children diagnosed as autistic are up by 700% in some areas,
with more than 1 in 150 children on the autistic spectrum in 2004. Why is this
happening? What is going on? Do we really know what autism is and how is it
diagnosed? Perhaps autism is much more common than we thought? Perhaps
autistic behaviours are not quite what we thought?
- Reclaiming Non-Autistic Potential Through Interactive Games
Certain simple interactive games are ideally suited to attract the autistic child
into social communication. Understanding the underlying guiding principles, as
well as the necessary quality of adult behaviours that make these games work,
helps us to reclaim some of the autistic child's non-autistic potential.
- The Autistic State of Mind
Some of the underlying processes behind the external features of autism can be
described using insights from modern attachment theory and psychoanalytic
constructivism. Unable to use their minds to make sense of things, autistic children
use sensation-dominated activities to create a sense of being inside a hard
shell to shut out all awareness of difference.
- Babies at Risk of Autism
Evidence from international research on autism suggests that autism develops
only within the first 2 years of life, and that it can be treated successfully within
this time, if parents get actively involved (with examples of early warning signs/
symptoms and developmental progress of different babies and families).
- The Power of Parent-Led Early Autism Intervention
Parents are the most important people in every child's life. The earlier intervention
begins, the greater the chances of major developmental changes, and perhaps
even recovery, especially when the child's parents are enabled to take the
lead. With video examples of realistic progress that can be made when parents
get actively involved in supporting their autistic child's socio-emotional development.
- Autism Coaching: Working in Partnership + Empowering Parents
Family mentoring usually takes place at home. This pioneering method involves
careful observation, modeling and practicing ways to encourage social development,
play and purposeful activity to encourage the development of symbolic
thinking and language as a more effective communication than the
autistic sensory and self-stimulatory activities or challenging behaviours.
Video-feedback of their own interactions with their child helps parents to
understand and find more effective ways of managing difficult 'autistic' behaviours.
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