ANDI Initiative, Malaysia: Social Skills Module - Holiday Programme

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Social Skills Module - Holiday Programme

This module is for children on the autism spectrum. We do include a few typically-developing (non-autistic) peers, so that they can learn from each other.

This module focuses on FUN, of course!

Right up there with FUN are the following LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

- To maintain attention to what the others in the group are DOING
- To maintain awareness of what the others in the group are THINKING
- To COORDINATE one's actions with the actions of others
- To start to become aware of one's own thinking (METACOGNITION!)

This social learning programme includes several social cognition concepts, some of which are based on Social Thinking (R), a teaching methodology created by Michelle Garcia Winner (www.socialthinking.com). Although the lead facilitator of this module has attended Social Thinking workshops in the USA and Malaysia run by the Social Thinking Collaborative, this module is not affiliated with, nor has it been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by Michelle Garcia Winner or Think Social Publishing, Inc.

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Introduction

INTAN MIRANTI, M.Ed, is a Learning & Behaviour Consultant for children on the autism spectrum. She has worked with more than 150 children between the ages of two and twelve since 2005.

She is also an ACSM*-Certified Autism Exercise Specialist (*American College of Sports Medicine).

Currently, she works in designing remedial learning programmes for young children on the autism spectrum. She also advises and trains parents and other educators of children with autism, on learning curricula, behaviour management and school/community integration skills.

In addition, she runs ANDI Initiative which offers training and related services to the autism community. For 9 years, she was a part-time lecturer in autism intervention topics to Diploma-level students at a college in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, Indonesia, and has been a speaker/trainer at several seminars and conferences, including the Maldives, United States and around Malaysia.

Her article, “Six Metacomponents of Metacognition in Parents of Children with Autism: A Cross-disciplinary, Cross-cultural Review” was published in the Journal of Special Needs Education 2014.

She was also an advisor, in 2016, for the special needs programmes offered by Alam Kreatif, a non-profit endeavour located at Pusat Kreatif Kanak-Kanak Tuanku Bainun, Kuala Lumpur.

Most importantly, she is the parent of two young men, one on the autism spectrum.