Professional Development
Upcoming In-Services and Learning Opportunities
These are the upcoming learning opportunities for professionals and parents taking place at Four Rivers.
Priority registration is given to those parents and professionals within the Four Rivers district cooperative. All others will be considered if there are additional openings.
Please Register using the form at the bottom of the page. Click on the title for additional information.
February 24, 2021
Autism: Addressing Hygiene, Puberty, Personal Safety, and Sexuality Issues
Presentation: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
This day-long workshop will address strategies for: teaching and promoting self-care and independence, teaching puberty, emphasizing modesty and privacy, increasing personal safety while reducing fear and confusion and teaching sexuality related issues to children with ASD and related disabilities. The workshop will begin addressing the needs of children from the age of 3 (teaching hygiene, health and self-care) to elementary students (modesty, privacy, pre-puberty instruction and hygiene changes) to teenagers (puberty, personal safety and sexuality).
The target audience for this presentation is parents, social workers, teachers, speech-language pathologists, psychologists, and paraprofessionals, such as instructional assistants, and caregivers.