Join the HANDS in Autism® 3-Day Early Childhood Training — an intensive, interactive experience designed for early childhood educators, preschool teachers, service providers, and professionals working with young children with autism and developmental disabilities. Across three days, you’ll dive into essential topics including visual structure, educational and behavioral assessment, skills teaching, task adaptations, behavior intervention, and social skills strategies — all rooted in the evidence-based HANDS Model.
👥 Learn through hands-on activities, live observation, video examples, scenario-based discussions, coaching, and real-world practice.
🗓️ February 25–27 (9 AM–4 PM EST)
📍 Offered virtually and in Bloomington, IN ✈️
💼 Earn up to 27 contact hours
👉 Get details & register: https://handsinautism.iu.edu/training-services/training/training-options-list/three-day-childhood.html
✨2-Day Intensive Admin Training (February 5-6, virtual)
This training is designed for administrators and teams. It will focus on essential components to programming for students with ASD and related disabilities. A special emphasis will be on administrative and evaluation tools track outcomes of classrooms and programming.
👉 Get details & register: https://handsinautism.iu.edu/training-services/training/training-options-list/two-day-intensive-admin.html
Make-It Take-It (MITI)
📣 Exciting MITI Workshop Series — February 2026! 🤩
Join HANDS in Autism® for our Make-It Take-It (MITI) interactive workshop series — three hands-on sessions designed to build practical strategies you can use right away with learners of all abilities.
📅 Workshop Dates & Topics:
🗓 02/11/2026: Choreography & Team Collaboration
✨ Creating flow and synergy across individuals, staff, and settings
🗓 02/18/2026: Implementation Supports, Prompting & Differential Reinforcement
✨ Practical intervention strategies that work for all learners
🗓 02/25/2026: Safety Plan
✨ Understand and create tailored safety plans for multiple settings
These sessions focus on real tools, collaboration, and confidence-building — perfect for educators, support staff, and providers looking to strengthen inclusive practices and behavior support across environments.
👉 Get hands-on, walk away ready to implement!
🔗 Details & registration information: https://handsinautism.iu.edu/training-services/training/training-options-list/miti-workshop-series.html
📣 Intensive Workshop for Direct Support Providers, Paraprofessionals, Assistants and Support Personnel
📍 This is an intensive workshop for paraprofessionals, assistants, and support personnel that focuses on providing hands-on experience and coaching. While the program includes traditional instructional methods such as lectures and discussion, the emphasis of the workshop is building increased knowledge and skill of the process to support students with varying level of disability and need in achieving maximum success.
🔗 Details & registration information: https://handsinautism.iu.edu/training-services/training/training-options-list/one-day-intensive-paraprofessional.html