NEW YORK \u2014 A North Country\u2013based organization is helping New York City educators better understand autism as classrooms see a rise in diagnosed students.<\/p>\n
Don Mesibov, director of the Institute for Learning Center Education\u2019s Autism Initiative, led a workshop Nov. 24 for 44 educators in Special Education District 8. District Director Joseph Weaver requested the training, saying the district has seen \u201cdouble the number\u201d of newly diagnosed students in the past year and is losing new teachers who lack autism training.<\/p>\n
A second session that afternoon drew 27 paraprofessionals, Mesibov said. He added that administrators from other New York City districts have expressed interest in hosting the same workshop.<\/p>\n
Co-director Jennifer Townsend, who runs her own organization in Wisconsin, and Connor Newcombe, 26, of Potsdam, also presented. Both participated via Zoom. Newcombe, who is on the autism spectrum, read poems about his experiences growing up with autism.<\/p>\n
Participants reviewed a list of \u201c20 tips\u201d for working with autistic students. Mesibov said the strategies are \u201ceasy to understand\u201d but often unfamiliar to educators. He said post-session evaluations were positive, with many attendees citing Newcombe\u2019s poems and the tips as especially helpful.<\/p>\n
In the photo, participants discuss two videos shown during the training. Mesibov said the workshops are designed to be highly interactive because research shows people learn best when actively engaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A North Country\u2013based organization is helping New York City educators better understand autism as classrooms…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2313,2312,2321,2322,2307,2323,2318,2309,2199,1650,9,24,55,54,2310,56,2308,2306,2319,2311,2320,2324,2326,2325,2316,2317,2315,2314],"class_list":["post-63796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adirondack-foothills","tag-adirondacks","tag-alcoa","tag-arconic","tag-canton","tag-clarkson-university","tag-fishing","tag-gouverneur","tag-hunting","tag-massena","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-north-country","tag-ny","tag-ogdensburg","tag-potsdam","tag-snowmobiling","tag-st-lawrence-county","tag-st-lawrence-seaway","tag-st-lawrence-university","tag-suny-canton","tag-suny-potsdam","tag-village-of-canton","tag-village-of-massena","tag-village-of-norwood","tag-village-of-potsdam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}