Description

Understanding a child’s developmental profile is essential to designing effective early intervention. This CEU event introduces the ESDM Curriculum Checklist as a tool for assessing early social, communication, cognitive, and adaptive skills in young children with autism. Participants will review the checklist’s key domains, how these domains fit within typical developmental progressions, and go over practical considerations for goal selection in a clinical setting. A case study will be presented to demonstrate how data gathered from the checklist directly informs treatment planning in a clinical setting and ongoing clinical decision-making.BCBAs who attend the entire presentation and pass the learning assessment will receive 1 General Learning CEU.An asynchronous version of the webinar will be emailed to everyone who registered but could not attend the live presentation.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand key elements of the ESDM and Joint Activity Routine (JAR) framework. 

2. Identify key components of the ESDM Curriculum Checklist (ESDM-CC).

3. Explain how data gathered from the ESDM-CC directly informs goal writing and treatment planning. 

4. Understand how the ESDM and the ESDM-CC can be used in an integrated care setting and in ongoing clinical decision making. 

Presenter

Anna Ta, M.S., BCBA, Certified ESDM Therapist

Anna is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and Early Start Denver Model (ESDM) Certified Therapist who has been working with children with Autism and other related disorders since 2018. She has a Master of Science degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from Simmons University and a background in Child Development. Anna has worked in a variety of settings, including center-based, school-based, and in-home services, specializing in working with toddlers and school-age children. Anna joined Soar Autism Center in 2022 and became ESDM Certified in 2023. She is passionate about naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions and values supporting clinicians in developing programming that is individualized and scaffolded to ensure that children are optimally learning.