Become Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant
	Increase Staff and Student Safety
	Be Prepared for an Autism Emergency
	Save Valuable Time and Resources
	Avoid Litigation

Dennis Debbaudt’s Autism Safety and Risk training sessions and conference presentations will address and identify autism risk management issues and present strategies for school district employees to prepare for and manage autism-related emergencies at school, home, and in the community.

Deescalation techniques, safe student transportation, safety and risk life skills education for students with ASD, cross-educational opportunities with law enforcement, and best tools & options when forming partnerships between school districts and law enforcement, first response, criminal justice agencies are among the topics addressed. The sessions are designed to lower risk, increase safety, improve communications, and avoid litigation.

Autism Safety & Risk expert and author, Dennis Debbaudt, has written on these topics for the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Sheriff Magazine, Autism Spectrum Quarterly, LRP Publications, Autism-Europe’s LINK magazine, Autism Asperger’s Digest, Autism Society of America’s Advocate Newsletter.

Most importantly, as the parent of a 22-year-old son who has autism, he’s experienced school related Autism Safety & Risk issues first-hand. He has presented to educators throughout the U.S., in Canada and the United Kingdom, and has consulted to scores of autism educators about autism-based school incidents. Since 2002, he’s written and contributed to LRP’s Maintaining Safe Schools, School Transportation Leader, School Discipline Advisor, What’s Working in Special Education, Your School and the Law, on autism-related issues such as training school resource officers, training staff to avoid physical-restraint lawsuits, school bus physical interventions, and bus related anti-bullying efforts. His 2004 article for Autism Spectrum Quarterly covered identifying students with Autism Spectrum conditions as potential victims, and development of school district risk management strategies and cooperative relationships with families, non-teaching personnel and school district visitors. He also contributed in 2004 to the EK Shriver Center Journal on autism and the juvenile justice system.

Put Dennis Debbaudt’s expert experience in training and developing educational tools for law enforcement agencies to work for your school district as you manage campus risk for an increasing population of students with autism.