Extra dates for Peach Initial Tutor Training course in Ascot
Due to popular demand, Peach is running an extra Initial Tutor Training course at their offices in Ascot on 23rd and 24th March.
This is in addition to the same course taking place in Manchester on 30th and 31st March.
For further details and a booking form, please call Peach on 01344 882248, or email info@Peach.org.uk.
Initial Tutor Training
This is a general introduction to ABA that covers the general principles and methodology of ABA programmes. It is a great introduction to ABA for tutors who have joined a team after the initial workshop, and a useful refresher for more established team members. This is a two day course that covers the following areas:
• How to take data and analyse it.
Lead Tutor Training course at Peach
Peach is offering its valuable Lead Tutor Training course at the Peach office in Ascot on 10th March 2011. For more details and booking form, please phone Peach on 01344 882248 or email info@Peach.org.uk.
Lead Tutor Training
The course is aimed at both experienced Tutors and Senior/Lead Tutors. It is highly recommended that all applicants have previously attended the Initial Tutor Training and have at least 1-2 years experience with a range of children. The aim of the course is to prepare tutors for taking on lead tutor responsibilities.
The course includes the following topics:
• Overlapping effectively with newer tutors
• Organising and interpreting data
• Running Team Meetings
• Preparing data sheets and stimuli
• Preparing effectively for workshops
Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis and its application for pupils with autism in a special school setting
A seminar with Katy Lambert and Hannah Clements from TreeHouse
Thursday 3 February, 10.30am – 2.30pm, Central London
For full details or to book your place please go to the TreeHouse website.
Or complete the attached booking form and return to Jenny Phillips, Training and Consultancy Manager, jphillips@treehouse.org.uk, 020 8815 5148
"ABA: Where are we now and where are we going?" Conference for ABA Professionals: 20 January 2011
Call for Conference Registration and Poster Abstracts - Please circulate
ABA: Where are we now and where are we going?
20 January 2011, London
TreeHouse, Bangor University and the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour Group (EABG) are delighted to announce a conference for professionals working with individuals with special educational needs in the field of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA).
Registration is now open; please download the booking form from the TreeHouse Website, and return by 1 December to receive the ‘early booking’ rate.
Speakers
Contingency Mapping in the Functional Assessment of Challenging Behaviour
Dr. Sandy Toogood, BCBA-D, Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, Bangor University
Positive Behaviour Support: Application and Evidence Base
Dr. Peter Baker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust/Tizard Centre University of Kent
Latest Evidence for the Effectiveness of Behavioural Intervention for Children with Autism
Professor Richard Hastings, School of Psychology, Bangor University
Training Behaviour Analysts: Current Status and Future Possibilities
Dr. J Carl Hughes, Senior Behaviour Analyst, Bangor University
ABA’s Not Just for Special Education:
School-based Intervention for Typically-Developing Children with Challenging Behaviour
Dr. Jennifer L. Austin, BCBA-D, University of Glamorgan
Chair: Katy Lambert, Principal ABA Consultant, TreeHouse
Continuing Education
We are offering five BACB CEUs for attendance at this conference. These are free to attendees.
Call for Posters
If you would like to submit a poster for presentation at this conference please see the guidelines on the TreeHouse Website.
Poster abstracts should be submitted for review by no later than 1 December 2010.
Venue Details
The Pears National Centre for Autism Education, Woodside Avenue, London, N10 3JA.
Post Conference Workshop
ABA Competencies Project Post Conference Workshop - six type-two CEUs available.
Friday 21 January 2011, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm.
Full details can be found on the TreeHouse Website
Or contact Jenny Phillips: email jphillips@treehouse.org.uk or telephone 0208 815 5148
Experienced ABA tutor and Qualified Teacher
I am an experienced ABA tutor and have worked with three families on PEACH programmes.
I am a qualified primary school teacher with experience of working with children with autism.
I also studied a BSc degree in Psychology and a Post-graduate Certificate in Early Years Leadership.
I am looking to work in the school holidays, weekends, and from May I will be looking to work regular weekday sessions as I am continuing with my studies.
I live in Bedfordshire, a close commute to London, and I am willing to travel reasonable distances.
ABA tutor and qualified primary school teacher
Hi I am an experienced ABA tutor and have worked with two families. I am a qualified primary school teacher with experience of working with children with autism. I also studied a BSc degree in psychology and a post graduate certificate in early years leadership. I am looking to work in the school holidays and perhaps weekends, and from September I will be looking for regular tutoring due to my return to studies. I live in Hertfordshire, a close commute to London and am willing to travel reasonable distances.
If you are interested please contact me: jodie.lambert@ntlworld.com
Snowflake School in London
Snowflake is an independent school located in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
The school has 15 places for pupls aged between 5 and 14 years of age and a statement of Special Educational Needs.
All the children who attend Snowflake School will have their places funded by their local Educational Authority.
It is founded on the scientific principles of Applied Behavioural Analysis using Verbal Behaviour techniques.
More information is in the attached prospectus and General Information documents that you can click to download below.
Contact details:
Southampton University study into Intensive and Behavioural therapy
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
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
Teaching Verbal Behaviour: Comprehensive Program Development Workshop
Comprehensive Program Development Workshop
Hands-on Training for Professionals and Parents
Where: ESPORTA HEALTH CLUB, Ground Floor, O2 Centre, 255 Finchley Road, London NW3 6LU
When: April 11-14, 2007
Time: Check in at 8:30am--Presentation runs from 9am to 5pm each day
Accommodations: Individual choice
To reserve a place: E-mail Louise at workshopinformation@yahoo.co.uk
To confirm your place: send a cheque to Louise Cheetham: 8 Grosvenor Road, Muswell Hill, London, N10 2DS
See link to downloadable booking form on this page.
TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR: COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
This FOUR-day workshop conducted by Holly Kibbe, MS, BCABA and Cherish Twigg, MS, BCBA, is designed to provide consultants, therapists and parents who serve as their child’s primary therapist with guided practice in implementing the methods described in the Introductory Verbal Behavior Workshops. This workshop combines both the workshop entitled Teaching Verbal behavior in the Intensive Teaching Environment (ITT) and the Workshop entitled Teaching Verbal Behavior in the Natural Environment (NET), into a full four day workshop.
A teaching manual for the VB approach to ABA
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.
Verbal Conditional Discriminations (aka Intraverbals)
Not sure the best place to put this, but since it includes Mark Sundberg's recent research on his intraverbal assessments, I am putting it here in Research. Attached is Mark's ABA presentation powerpoint and the associated intraverbal (earlier learners) and verbal conditional discrimination (more advanced learners) assessments. He is also working on a new "listener response by function feature and class" task analysis and assessment.
--Siri
The Verbal Behavior Approach to Early and Intensive Behavioral Intervention for Autism: A Call for Additional Empirical Support
Early and intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) has been firmly established and disseminated as one of the most
effective treatments for early childhood autism.
Recently, a number of practitioners have employed a variant of this
approach in which the language curriculum is organized and taught according to Skinners (1957) analysis of verbal
behavior.
In this commentary, we briefly describe the verbal-behavior approach to EIBI and summarize the existing
data that support its use.
Although the approach is conceptually sound and is supported by a modest literature on the acquisition of verbal operants, no outcome research currently exists to directly support the long-term application of the verbal-behavior approach to children with autism.
Teaching Play and Socialization Skills to Children with Autism
Amy McGinnis
April 23, 2006
POAC of PA
Teaching Verbal Behavior in the Natural Environment
By Amy McGinnis
POAC of PA
April 2, 2006
About Natural Environment Teaching of VB.
Getting Started in ABA/VBA
By Reg Reynolds, 22 October 2001
Information and lots of starting points and resources to help plan or get started on a programme.
Autism Class Checklist
Scorecard for classroom teaching in VB.
Designing effective programmes for verbal development
Useful introduction to Verbal Behaviour theory and practice from Saplings Educating for Life.
Intraverbal Carrier Phrases (updated 10-02)
Sample Intraverbal target list
By Jennifer Godwin
From The DTT-NET Yahoo Group
10 Things the Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
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.
Intensive Teaching Procedures for Learners with Autism
By Amy McGinnis
POAC of PA
December 8, 2005
Problem Behaviours
By Thomas M. Caffrey
Teaching Sign Language as Part of VB Programme
Useful presentation outlining key VB concepts and how to apply sign language as augmentative language training.
How to Teach Vocal Behaviour to Non-Vocal Learners
Describes 4 methods that may be used simultaneously to teach a non-vocal child to talk.
Teaching Manding: How to Capture and Contrive Motivation
Presented By Sharon Keppley M.Ed, BCBA and Amy Flores, M.Ed., BCBA
Keppley Behavioral Consulting