Connecting with Young Children through Sensoriaffective Integration: A Discussion with Dr. Carrie Alvarado
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What new AEP Connections courses are being announced at the start of the episode?
We have some exciting new information coming forth from AEP Connections, our partners. So if you are looking to learn more about executive function supports in a creative hands-on way. AEP Connections has a brand new course designed by Sarah Ward. And it's a spin on a make and take course that will occur over four sessions, providing feedback and answer questions that you come up with as you implement strategies in real time. They also have two dyslexia courses forthcoming, and that will be a live focus on assessment and co-occurring needs and share some of the best practices on how to support dyslexic students. Another course will be an on-demand course, where you will learn what you learned in the first course and dive into strategies.
There's also a course on PDA. Which is also known as pathological demand avoidance, or as some people say, persistent demand for autonomy. Uh it's a follow-up on supporting PDAs using a declarative language approach. So that's a little bit about the lineup for the fall. Again, you can have more information on this at aepconnections.com. We also will include the link on the page for this episode. So please uh check into these great courses and also check into the continuing education credits you can get through so many organizations.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Barry Prazant, clinical scholar, researcher, and consultant on autism and neurodiversity, and a Brooklyn boy raised in the big city.
And I'm Dave. I'm none of those things, and I grew up on a farm in Illinois. But being on the spectrum myself, I have plenty of personal insight to lend.
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Today on Uniquely Human the Podcast, we are thrilled to have Dr. Carrie Alvarado with us today. Welcome, Carrie.
Hi there. So happy to be here.
Yeah, and and this is kind of a a very quick follow up because um I was able to participate in a conference in San Antonio that Carrie and her colleagues organized and um it was wonderful. We had some terrific discussions over dinner and at the conference and I I said right away Carrie, we need to have you on the podcast. You have such important information to share.
Very kind. Thank you.
So a little bit about you. Dr. Carrie Alvarado, who is an occupational therapist, serves as the Chief Operating Officer and Clinical Director for Autism Community Network based in San Antonio, Texas. Carrie has a PhD in infant and early childhood development with an emphasis on infant mental health and neurodiversity. You know, Carrie, I think a lot of people don't realize there's this whole field of infant mental health. It's not just about us older folks who have to have mental health issues addressed, right?
Exactly.
And Carrie is the creator and director of the Earliest Connections Clinic, a diagnostic program geared towards early identification and therapeutic intervention for infants and toddlers. Additionally, Carrie leads the DIR Floor Time and PACT therapy teletherapy programs, intensive intervention programs, supporting families with autistic children through dyadic coaching. both in vivo and reflective feedback modalities. That's a mouthful, but we're gonna unpack it. Uh Carrie's primary research interests are in sensory affective integration and attachment, clinical use of reflective video feedback, and in optimizing parent-mediated interventions via the modality of telepractice. Carrie was the first in the United States to become a Pediatric Autism Communication Therapy or PACT Accredited Practitioner, and she serves as an associate with PACT in the UK.
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