Training, Workshops, Seminars, Talks by Sibylle Janert
Sibylle Janert offers training and lectures, and has been invited to speak in the UK by Social Services, Primary Care Trusts, Child Development Teams, Bangladeshi Women's and Parents' groups, Primary and ASD Schools, Oxford Autism Education Service and university. Her engagements in Germany count as part of the governments professional development scheme for doctors and other professionals, and she has held seminars at the Autism Institutes in Tübingen and Langen, Bremen University, the Psychoanalytic Institute Hannover and Bremen, and advised on children in African village schools.
Popular Topics
1. The Autism Debate: Is Autism a 'Thing' the Child 'Has', or What?
The numbers of children diagnosed as autistic are up by 700% in some areas, with
more than 1 in 150 children on the autistic spectrum in 2004. Why is this happening?
What is going on? Do we really know what autism is and how is it diagnosed?
Perhaps autism is much more common than we thought? Perhaps autistic behaviours
are not quite what we thought?
2. Reclaiming Non-Autistic Potential Through Interactive Games
Certain simple interactive games are ideally suited to attract the autistic child into
social communication. Understanding the underlying guiding principles, as well as the
necessary quality of adult behaviours that make these games work, helps us to
reclaim some of the autistic child's non-autistic potential.
3. The Autistic State of Mind
Some of the underlying processes behind the external features of autism can be
described using insights from modern attachment theory and psychoanalytic
constructivism. Unable to use their minds to make sense of things, autistic children
use sensation-dominated activities to create a sense of being inside a hard shell to
shut out all awareness of difference.
4. Babies at Risk of Autism
Evidence from international research on autism suggests that autism develops only
within the first 2 years of life, and that it can be treated successfully within this time, if
parents get actively involved (with examples of early warning signs/ symptoms and
developmental progress of different babies and families).
5. The Power of Parent-Led Early Autism Intervention
Parents are the most important people in every child's life. The earlier intervention
begins, the greater the chances of major developmental changes, and perhaps even
recovery, especially when the child's parents are enabled to take the lead. With video
examples of realistic progress that can be made when parents get actively involved in
supporting their autistic child's socio-emotional development.
6. Autism Coaching: Working in Partnership + Empowering Parents
Family mentoring usually takes place at home. This pioneering method involves careful
observation, modeling and practicing ways to encourage social development, play and
purposeful activity to encourage the development of symbolic thinking and language as
a more effective communication than the autistic sensory and self-stimulatory activities
or challenging behaviours. Video-feedback of their own interactions with their child
helps parents to understand and find more effective ways of managing difficult 'autistic'
behaviours.
Email: info@reachingautism.org
Sibylle Janert offers training and lectures, and has been invited to speak in the UK by Social Services, Primary Care Trusts, Child Development Teams, Bangladeshi Women's and Parents' groups, Primary and ASD Schools, Oxford Autism Education Service and university. Her engagements in Germany count as part of the governments professional development scheme for doctors and other professionals, and she has held seminars at the Autism Institutes in Tübingen and Langen, Bremen University, the Psychoanalytic Institute Hannover and Bremen, and advised on children in African village schools.
Popular Topics
1. The Autism Debate: Is Autism a 'Thing' the Child 'Has', or What?
The numbers of children diagnosed as autistic are up by 700% in some areas, with
more than 1 in 150 children on the autistic spectrum in 2004. Why is this happening?
What is going on? Do we really know what autism is and how is it diagnosed?
Perhaps autism is much more common than we thought? Perhaps autistic behaviours
are not quite what we thought?
2. Reclaiming Non-Autistic Potential Through Interactive Games
Certain simple interactive games are ideally suited to attract the autistic child into
social communication. Understanding the underlying guiding principles, as well as the
necessary quality of adult behaviours that make these games work, helps us to
reclaim some of the autistic child's non-autistic potential.
3. The Autistic State of Mind
Some of the underlying processes behind the external features of autism can be
described using insights from modern attachment theory and psychoanalytic
constructivism. Unable to use their minds to make sense of things, autistic children
use sensation-dominated activities to create a sense of being inside a hard shell to
shut out all awareness of difference.
4. Babies at Risk of Autism
Evidence from international research on autism suggests that autism develops only
within the first 2 years of life, and that it can be treated successfully within this time, if
parents get actively involved (with examples of early warning signs/ symptoms and
developmental progress of different babies and families).
5. The Power of Parent-Led Early Autism Intervention
Parents are the most important people in every child's life. The earlier intervention
begins, the greater the chances of major developmental changes, and perhaps even
recovery, especially when the child's parents are enabled to take the lead. With video
examples of realistic progress that can be made when parents get actively involved in
supporting their autistic child's socio-emotional development.
6. Autism Coaching: Working in Partnership + Empowering Parents
Family mentoring usually takes place at home. This pioneering method involves careful
observation, modeling and practicing ways to encourage social development, play and
purposeful activity to encourage the development of symbolic thinking and language as
a more effective communication than the autistic sensory and self-stimulatory activities
or challenging behaviours. Video-feedback of their own interactions with their child
helps parents to understand and find more effective ways of managing difficult 'autistic'
behaviours.
Email: info@reachingautism.org
