Transition Survival 103-B: Advanced Social Skills for Adolescent and Adults - Part 2
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For planning beyond conversation skills, Christine Austin's recorded Part 2 examines self-regulation and relationship building for adolescents and adults with autism. She organizes skills from prerequisites to advanced situations, including coping with mistakes, navigating peer pressure, and preparing for dating or difficult conversations.
Presenter biographies: Christine Austin.
Austin reviews assessment and the teaching methods introduced in Part 1 before moving through prerequisite, beginner, and advanced skills. The early skill sections cover adjusting to change, reading body language, and recognizing feelings.
The advanced sections address decision making, goal setting, embarrassment, peer pressure, dating, and difficult conversations. Austin also explains social stories and structured learning, including the role of modeling, roleplay, feedback, and practice across settings.
What does this recording cover?
- The session compares discrete trial teaching, natural environment teaching, and incidental teaching.
- Self-regulation topics include understanding feelings, dealing with anger, making decisions, and setting goals.
- Relationship topics include appropriate touch, accepting no, handling peer pressure, and preparing for difficult conversations.
- Social stories and structured learning are discussed alongside roleplay, feedback, and practice across settings.
Recording context: This historical recording includes older diagnostic terminology and eye-contact targets, and the source does not establish its recording date.
Three selected learner comments
The six-item evaluation mean was 4.20/5 across 40 complete responses, from 272 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.
Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results or a claim that these comments represent every learner.
Info is great but generic
Course evaluation response, 2023
Maybe not so many words on a slide - could never read them all and the camera would switch back to her very quickly
Course evaluation response, 2023
Include a Pdf that lists all the skills covered
Course evaluation response, 2023
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Meet the Presenters
Clinic Director at Step By Step Academy, a position she has held since 2009, where she previously served as Training and Behavior Plan Supervisor,Outreach and Training Coordinator, Program Supervisor/Outreach Support Technician and Behavior Technician.
Christine regularly publishes and presents at professional conferences on the topic of autism and behavioral support. Her areas of expertise include ABA, training, individual education plans (IEPs), treatment planning and behavior modification and behavior management. She has a BA in Psychology and minor in Sociology from Ohio State University. Now a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Christine trained in Applied Behavior Analysis with the University of North Texas and is certified in Crisis Prevention.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
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