Dr. Blake’s Seminars

Dr Blake does two six hour seminars for PESI, Inc. out of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. One is entitled, “Executive Dysfunction: Effective Strategies & Interventions for Children & Adolescents”, which discusses how to diagnose and treat executive function difficulties in general and in those with AD/HD, Specific Learning Disability-Dyslexia, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. The second seminar is entitled, “Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults”, addressing how to diagnose and treat executive function difficulties in adults with AD/HD as well as how to treat common AD/HD comorbidities of AD/HD adults.

Dr. Blake has done six live seminars, and  six webinars through Cross Country Education (now known as Vyne Education) in Brentwood, Tennessee. The seminars and webinars are designed primarily for credentialed professionals in medical and mental health fields. Continuing Education Credits are offered for these presentations.

Finally, Dr. Blake has done seminars, trainings and talks for a variety of international, state and local conferences, as well as for schools, institutions and organizations. If you are interested in having him present please contact him.

Presentations are available on the following subjects:

ADHD & Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (SCT) Autism Specific Learning Disorder Dyslexia and Other Reading Disorders Nonverbal Learning Disorders and Asperger's Disorder Specific Learning Disorder of Mathematics and Writing Executive Function Difficulties Disorders that are Comorbid with AD/HD, Specific Learning Disorder and/or Autism Spectrum Disorder Anxiety Prosopagnosia (Face Blindness) Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) and Hyperacusis Synesthesia Linguistic Coding Difference (Difficulty Learning Foreign Languages) Social Interaction Difficulties

A. New Six-Hour Seminar

A New 6-hour Seminar, presented by Dr. Blake through PESI, is is now available entitled, “High-Functioning Autism: Proven & Practical Interventions for Challenging Behaviors in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults“. This intensive, full-day seminar provides proven intervention strategies, essential treatment tools, and behavioral techniques to help you analyze behaviors and actions, identify consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults with high-functioning autism (HFA). Walk away with practical intervention techniques for social success, behavior changes and overcoming challenging co-occurring behaviors that deliver success through adulthood. The challenging co-occurring issues to be addressed are:

• Social skills
• Sensory
• Depression
• ADHD
• Psychotropic medications
• Communication
• Anxiety/Rigidity
• Meltdowns
• OCD
• Non-compliance

Get valuable insight into common psychotropic medication, including both the helpful effects and potentially problematic side effects, that these individuals are prescribed. We will explore HFA and the new DSM-5® diagnosis of Social-Pragmatic Communication Disorder. You will receive the necessary tools to gain effective collaboration between clinicians, educators and parents. Through case studies, video clips and class participation you will leave this seminar with the confidence to identify actions that cause impediments in change, utilize more successful consequences for behaviors, and teach new skills to children, adolescents, and young adults with HFA. Don’t just manage these individuals; provide interventions that can lead to successful independence into their adult years!

Seminar Slides:

2020 High-Functioning Autism PESI

References:

2020 Autism seminar references

Future Dates and Cities-Please contact PESI, Inc. (800) 844-8260 for details and registration.

Until further notice: All presentations will be conducted as webinars due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

B. New Six-Hour Seminar

A new 6-hour Seminar, presented by Dr. Blake through PESI, Inc. is  now available, entitled: Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults. This workshop presents the latest techniques to treat the core issue of difficulty of AD/HD in adults; impaired executive function.

Time and task management, personal organization, and planning difficulties can negatively affect all aspects of the AD/HD adult’s life. Employment, relationships, physical and mental health, grooming, driving, parenting, may all be impacted.

Learn practical, easy to apply methods to help adults with AD/HD improve

• visual and verbal working memory
• skills to self-monitor behavior
• sleep
• work and social behavior
• driving
• self-care
• organization
• planning.

Dr. Blake will provide information on how to coordinate treatment with other professionals who are tasked with helping AD/HD patients/clients to attain the highest achievable skills. Physicians, speech-language therapists, professional organizers, AD/HD coaches, job coaches, academic tutors, career counselors, etc, will benefit. Learn why more directive counseling methods, like cognitive behavioral therapy and coaching often do not work for AD/HD children, but do for AD/HD adults. Dr. Blake’s goal is to provide practical, easily applied, evidence-based techniques, skills, and methods that can improve the quality of life for adult AD/HD clients.

Seminar Slides:

Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults

References

Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults

Future Seminar Dates and Cities – Please contact PESI, Inc. (800) 844-8260 for details and registration.

Adult ADHD: Targeting Executive Skills to Manage ADHD in Adults

• Until Further notice: All future presentations will be conducted as webinars due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

C. New 12 – Hour Seminar

A new six hour seminar can be provided by Dr. Blake through PESI entitled, “Executive Function, AD/HD and Stress in the Classroom: Practical and Effective Tips, Tools and Strategies
Module: #3“. This seminar is designed for educator to learn the latest in effective classroom management and teaching tools to be used in the mainstream classroom with student who have AD/HD. It will teach how to adapt the curriculum of the mainstream classroom to meet the needs of the student with AD/HD and the neurotypical student.

For those interested in a live presentation of this seminar please contact PESI, Inc. (800) 844-8260 for details.

D. New 2-Hour Webinar

A new two hour webinar can be provided by Dr. Blake Through PESI entitled: On Alert for Long-Haul COVID-19. This webinar is designed for the mental health and educational professional to learn the latest information about treating Long-Haul COVID-19, how it can cause depression, cognitive difficulties, psychotic and bipolar symptoms, and other mental health related issues. What we have learned from the Pandemic of 1918 regarding mental health comorbidities that accompany such viruses may have as well as what is currently know about treating them will be discussed.

For those interested in a live presentation of this seminar please contact PESI, Inc. (800) 844-8260 for details.

Other Scheduled Seminars and Courses

• To Be Announced

DVDs and Podcasts are Available

Downloadable podcasts and DVDs are available of this seminar and another of Dr. Blake’s seminars entitled, “Executive Dysfunction: Effective Strategies for Children and Adolescents”, which are available from PESI, Inc. Six hours of CEUs are also available.

Additionally, Dr. Blake has three podcasts that can be streamed from Vyne Education in Brentwood, Tennessee. They are as follows: “Inattentive AD/HD in the DSM-5: Finding Consensus or Debate” (2 hours CEU); “Healthy Sexual Development in Those With Autism Spectrum Disorder” (1 hour CEU); and, “Getting Back On Track: Understanding and Treating Executive Function and AD/HD” (2 hours CEUs).

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