- PMD: 6
- Cost: Included in Registration
- Skill Level: Introduction
- Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools
Learner Objectives
This session will help participants…
- advance understanding of the prevalence of bullying behavior among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder;
- increase understanding about the level of agreement between parent-, self-, and teacher-reported rates of bully participant behaviors for youth with autism;
- increase the understanding about whether social–emotional learning tools can be utilized to identify students with autism at risk for involvement in bullying situations; and
- consider how this knowledge can be applied in school interventions to address bullying.
Description
This study examines the agreement between adult- and self-reported engagement in bullying behaviors and whether social–emotional screeners can help identify students with autism who engage in bullying behaviors.
Presenter(s)
DaShae J. Rodriguez-Harris, La Grange Area Department of Special Education
Contributor(s)
Christine Malecki