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What Does Your Body Know? Teaching Individuals with IDD to Recognize Internal Warning Signs

Led by Patricia Lund
📅 Wednesday, May 13, 2026
🕐 12:00 PM America/New_York
🎓 1.0 Type 2 CEU

What You’ll Learn & How It Applies to Your Practice

Research suggests nearly three-quarters of individuals with autism have significant difficulty reading their own internal body signals unless those signals are extreme — and if a learner can’t recognize that something is wrong inside, no safety skill we teach will trigger in time. Patricia Lund will introduce interoception (the ability to sense and interpret signals from inside the body), explain why it’s a foundational skill for abuse prevention, and give you practical starting points for weaving body awareness into the safety skills training you’re already doing.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will define interoception and explain its relevance to abuse prevention for individuals with IDD.
  • Participants will identify at least two reasons why individuals with IDD may experience difficulty recognizing internal warning signals.
  • Participants will describe at least two practical strategies for incorporating body awareness into existing safety skills training.

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