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.

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 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:

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

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.

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.

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

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 Skinner’s (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.

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