Behavioral Disorders That Affect Children and Teens and How

To Effectively Manage Them

January 3, 2013

Date: January 3, 2013

Location: Nicholls State University– Betsy C. Ayo Hall Auditorium

Time: 8:00 a.m. Registration – 3:30 p.m. Education Activity Ends

Credit: 5.5 contact hours

Speaker: Dr. Grant Gautreaux Phd  is an Assistant professor of Teacher Education at Nicholls State University. He has a MA in Behavioral Disorders from Columbia University and PhD in Behavioral Analysis from Columbia University. He currently holds ranks of CABAS Senior Behavior Analyst and Assistant Research Scientist and is BCDA-D. Dr. Gautreax has taught courses in instructional interventions, behavior interventions, applied behavior analysis and teacher education. He has published articles related to observational learning, multiple exemplar instruction and has presented at numerous national and international conferences on behavioral analysis and teacher education.

This educational activity has been developed in response to a specific request from the Lafourche Parish School nurses.  Although the focus of the activity is on managing children and teens with behavioral disorders in the school setting, the information that will be presented would benefit health care personnel who care for this age group.  The goal is to enhance the participant’s ability to effectively manage children and teens with behavioral disorders and to incorporate reasonable accommodations to help them succeed.  The participant will recognize measures to effectively manage the child with autism, ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder.  The participant will incorporate reasonable measures to accommodate individuals with these behavioral disorders in an effort to help them to be successful.

Target audience: School nurses and health care personnel who work with and care for children and teenagers with autism, ADD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder.