You won’t want to miss joining Project ACCESS and educators from across Missouri for our second annual Winter Conference on Friday, January 24, 2020, in Jefferson City!

Our featured speaker will be Carol Gray, creator of Social Stories™, for a day-long presentation titled  “Reflect, Reboot, Reimagine: A Social Stories™ 10.2 Workshop”.

Carol Gray began her career as a teacher for four children with autism at Jenison Public Schools, in Jenison, Michigan.  Currently, she works as a consultant to children, adolescents, and adults with autism, providing support via workshops and presentations, information, referral, resources, and direct services for individuals with autism, their families, and professionals who work on their behalf.  Carol is best known for the development of Social Stories, a well-respected evidence-based practice used worldwide with people with autism of all ages.  She is an internationally sought-after keynote and seminar speaker and has completed over 1,200 presentations.

Carol is also the founder of a very effective social philosophy that 1) ‘abandons all assumptions’, 2) regards both the typical and autism perspective as ‘equally valid’, and 3) recognizes the ‘social impairment in autism’ as shared (noting the well-intentioned but nonetheless misguided mistakes of parents and professionals).  She has completed ground-breaking work on some of the toughest topics in autism by reviewing the research, outlining new theories, and developing practical instructional strategies, most notably Gray’s Guide to Bullying (2004) and Gray’s Guide to Loss, Learning, and Students with ASD (2003).  Carol serves on many advisory boards, including the active and working Advisory Board on Disabilities for Delta Air Lines, where she represents passengers with autism.
Carol has received many awards for her work, including Social Thinking’s Lifetime Achievement Award (San Francisco, 2015); Learning Spring School’s Spectrum Award for her global efforts in education and improving the lives of people with autism (New York City, 2012), the Autism Society of America Education Book of the Year, The New Social Story Book: Revised and Expanded 10^thAnniversary Edition (2009), and the Barbara Lipinski Award (Lansing, Michigan, 2005) for her international contribution to the education and welfare of people with autism.

Location:  Harry S Truman State Office Building, 301 West High Street, Jefferson City, MO;  Room 492

Time:  8:00 am – 3:30 p.m.

Cost:  $199

REGISTER HERE

If you have questions, please contact Project ACCESS at 866-481-3841 or projectaccess@missouristate.edu

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