Welcome to Mansfield University’s Transition Institute 2022!
These Institutes are intended to work on transition skills for those students on the autism spectrum, other health impairments, or mild sensory needs who receive learning support services or are fully included in the general education setting. This is designed to work toward meeting the transition requirements of the IEP. Participants will address areas of post-secondary, employment, and independent living/safety without missing classroom time.
Social Skills areas will also be addressed using the PEERS curriculum. The Program for Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®) is a manualized, group-based social skills curriculum developed at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. It is designed to help participants with ASD, ADHD, and other social challenges make and keep friends. Some skills addressed through the curriculum are finding common interests, trading information, sharing the conversation as well as initiating, maintaining, and ending conversations, handling teasing and bullying, and using humor (https://www.gvsu.edu/autismcenter).
The areas of employment, independent living and post-secondary education will be addressed using the Choicemaker curriculum as well as other activities using materials developed by the Organization for Autism Research (OAR). University and community resources will be utilized when appropriate and needed.
If you should have any questions relating to the Institute or the Autism Resource Center, please contact Dr. Alison Polly at apolly@mansfield.edu.
DATES: Monday, July 11th - Thursday, July 14th and Monday, July 25th - Thursday, July 28th
Please contact Dr. Alison Polly at Mansfield University for further information at apolly@mansfield.edu.