Verbal Behavior

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> Does anyone use the verbal behavior program in their classroom or

at home, and if so how has it been working. Our speech teacher just

went to a conference about this program, and said it was wonderful.

She said this program was great for the autism population.

Hi,

Yes, it is a great program. My son is at the early stages of the

combo of ABA with VB that have shown great progress. Kids with

little to no language are good candidates!! AVB is really a big job

but it works.

Verbal Behavior was a theoretical analysis, and subsequently, a

behavioral analysis, of language. From the theoretical analysis came

experiments designed to demonstrate that language is functionally

related to the environment in different ways. From those

experiments, various " training packages " were developed. These

training packages have also been confused as a " type " of behavior

analysis. Been doing some homework. So that I could have the school

district creaet this program at school or just so that they could

get educated in this arena.

Here is a site that you could review and download which is ONE of

the many resources.

http://www.mariposaschool.org/programs/

If you or the speech therapist would like to persue this for school

or home these groups have been great with information so that your

child could benefit this wonderful program and with the proper

information to look into it. It can be very overwhelming but worth

IT! You do have to sign in, but once you're in go directly to the

files and links to research on. If too much incoming mail imposes

your email box then you could always unsubscribe.

To ease your mind my son according to the clinic he attends has

mentioned that he is the most difficult child they've dealt with and

today I could express " he can be taught. " Plus he is a late bloomer

who has missed out alot when he was younger. All with due time as

every individual are different. It never hurts to try alternative

therapy as we are always searching for answers.

http://verbalbehaviornetwork.com/

I say this as we had the most beautiful experience at one of my

close friends house celebrating her two sons birthday and it was

great that we were not overcrowding him by being a shadow on his

every move. As a matter of fact one adult guest sat by him while he

was eating and it was time to eat cake and he was still working on

his food. That she wanted to know if could have a piece. I

told her " yes " and may be placed by his plate. Only he takes his

time rotating the plate in a precise order eating than he'll come

around eating the cake. Then she said " yes, all autistic kids do

that " , she is a RN. Then I said " your correct, glad you notice that

as many never saw that, just because he is Downs. " Then her eyes

widen and gave a double look and said " Down's! I only see the

autistic in him. " Ok, not that this throws off the features only

that he was very well behaved with the autistic traits. never

have never been this well mannered and verbal around others still a

little hard to understand but his words are coming around. We always

had to get up and go with a struggle. Recently, this has cut down, I

know these are results from his ABA/VB therapy. I'll stop here so

that many could share there side of experiences as they do have this

program at school and at home.

Hope this helps, good luck.

Irma,15,ds/asd

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Back to this message I forgot to include the site that has great

information to this arena who were not aware of it. Until I too,

started hearing from you and conferences. I'm only a lurker not

involved with this group. Just love reading the info.> Moderator is

Burk.

VerbalBehavior/

>>> If you or the speech therapist would like to do more research on

this for school or home these groups have been great with

information so that your child could benefit this wonderful program

and with the proper information to look into it. It can be very

overwhelming but worth IT! You do have to sign in, but once you're

in go directly to the files and links to research on. If too much

incoming mail floods your email box then you could always

unsubscribe.>>>>

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Does anyone have any experience working with a BCBA who's been trained on the

Dr. Carbone method of Skinner's Verbal Behavior?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!