Infant Development Association Training

This course will introduce the SCERTSŪ model, a comprehensive, multidisciplinary educational approach designed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and their families. SCERTSŪ provides specific guidelines for helping a child become a competent and confident social communicator, while preventing problem behaviors that interfere with learning and the development of relationships. It also is designed to help families, educators and therapists work cooperatively as a team, in a carefully coordinated manner, to maximize progress in supporting a child.

The SCERTS framework has been designed to target priority goals in social communication (SC) and emotional regulation (ER) by implementing transactional supports (TS) (e.g., interpersonal modifications, environmental arrangement, visual supports, etc.) throughout a child's daily activities and across social partners in order to facilitate competence within these identified goal areas in natural, functional and meaningful contexts.