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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)

There's been a lot of news recently about the preliminary report of research conducted by the University of Southampton into the benefits of Behavioural and Intensive Early Intervention approaches for children with autism. The headline was that as the first such study in the UK, after two years of therapy, it helped some children raise their IQ by 40 points, with none regressing.

The press wrote about it at these various links:
Telegraph

Times Online First Article

Times Online Second Article

Guardian Online

The draft report is attached and you can click on a link to it below. More information is available from the Research Autism organisation who sponsored the research and the link to the relevant study on their site is here:
Research Autism and Scamp Study