The Workshop:
Vince Carbone will describe the behavioural approach to teaching communication skills to children with autism and other developmental disabilities. This approach is based on B. F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behaviour and the research of Michael, Sundberg, Partington, and others.

Participants in this workshop will learn:
• To conduct a Behavioural Language Assessment
• To select the most appropriate form of communication for a child or adult (vocal, signing, pointing to or exchanging pictures, or activating an augmentative device)

I want to provide some information about a new book called "Educate Toward Recovery: Turning the Tables on Autism" by Robert Schramm.

I found it a great reference that consolidates all the core concepts of the VB approach and is written in a very intuitive and accessible manner.

It can be ordered online at the following link:
www.lulu.com/Knospe-ABA

Here is some more information and a review provided by Robert; there is plenty more at the site above.

Amy McGinnis
April 23, 2006
POAC of PA

By Amy McGinnis
POAC of PA
April 2, 2006

About Natural Environment Teaching of VB.

VB Workshop materials.

By Reg Reynolds, 22 October 2001

Information and lots of starting points and resources to help plan or get started on a programme.

Scorecard for classroom teaching in VB.

Useful introduction to Verbal Behaviour theory and practice from Saplings Educating for Life.

Sample Intraverbal target list

By Jennifer Godwin
From The DTT-NET Yahoo Group

10 Things the Student with Autism Wishes You Knew

(...and it makes sense for other kids too!)

By Ellen Notbohm

Author's note: When my article Ten Things Every Child with Autism
Wishes You Knew was first published in November 2004, I could
scarcely have imagined the response. Reader after reader wrote to tell me that the piece should be required reading for all social service workers, teachers and relatives of children with autism. "Just what my daughter would say if she could," said one mother. "How I wish I had read this five years ago. It took my husband and I such a long time to 'learn' these things," said another. As the responses mounted, I decided that the resonance was coming from the fact that the piece spoke with a child's voice, a voice not heard often enough. There is great need - and I hope, great willingness – to understand the world as special needs children experience it. So the voice of our child returns now to tell us what children with autism wish their teachers knew.