VB Community - Teaching to children with autism

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.

During the first two days, participants will spend most of their time practising the methods of effective instruction demonstrated in videotape illustrations during the Introductory Workshop.

Participants will have the opportunity to develop intensive teaching programs based upon a completed ABLLS grid and to receive precise feedback on their ITT teaching methods.

During the last two days of this workshop, participants will receive precise methodology to teach children with autism across all skill levels in the natural environment. The participants will spend most of their time viewing video illustrations and practising the methods of effective instruction demonstrated during the Introductory Workshop.

Participants will have the opportunity to develop natural environment programs of all learner levels as well as to develop lesson plans for these programs. The participants will be provided supervised practice in the areas of:

• Establishing and maintaining instructional control with an unwilling learner;
• Manipulating motivating operations (MO) during teaching opportunities to maintain learner attention;
• Using the ABLLS to develop an intensive teaching program;
• Video examples and guided instruction to teach objectives indicated in the ABLLS;
• Teaching language to non vocal children using sign language;
• Teaching early to advanced receptive, visual performance, motor imitation, tacting and intraverbal skills;
• Organizing your program materials and data recording methods including hands on practice for data recording and graphing acquisition of targets;
• How to use your data to guide program recommendations and decisions;
• Using the ABLLS to develop a natural environment teaching program for early to advanced learners;
• Guided instruction and video examples of NET objectives indicated in the ABLLS;
• Lesson Plan Development for early to advanced learners with hands on practice and guided feedback at each learner level;
• Teaching the early learner to request items and activities;
• Manipulating motivating operations (MO’s) to compete with the value of self stimulatory behavior when teaching the mand;
• Teaching non vocal early learners to communicate using sign language;
• Teaching vocal sounds to non-vocal learners;
• Transitioning from sign language to vocal verbal behavior;
• Data Collection in the natural environment across all learner levels;
• Teaching the receptive, tacting, intraverbal and motor imitation repertoires in the NET for early to advanced learners;
• Teaching the intermediate learner to mand (request) using sentences, actions, missing items, requesting help, using “yes” and “no” and many others;
• Generalizing skills taught in the intensive teaching setting into the natural environment;
• Teaching advanced learners to request information using WH questions;
• Teaching the advanced learner to answer novel WH questions and recall past events;
• Teaching the mand (request) for attention;
• Teaching the intermediate to advanced learner to follow multiple step receptive instructions;
• Teaching the advanced learner to request items with prepositions, adjectives and pronouns;
• Teaching reciprocal conversation for the advanced learner;
• Teaching children of all learner levels to engage in independent play with socially appropriate toys;
• Teaching social skills for the early to advanced learner.

Prerequisites: It is strongly recommended that all participants have attended a Verbal Behavior Introductory Workshop and have at least some experience teaching children with autism within an intensive teaching program.

Special requests to attend this workshop without prior intro workshop attendance must be submitted and approved prior to registration.

Required Materials: Participants should bring an ABLLS manual with them to the course.