ABA WorkShop For Teachers

[Guest guest]

Reaching Potentials, Inc.

and

Spotsylvania County Schools - Special Services

present

ABA for Classroom Teachers

Presenters: Hays Bachrach, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA

Passaretti, M.Ed., CBA/e/fl

Class: Applied Behavior Analysis for Classroom Teachers

Date: Friday / April 26, 2002

Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Location: Spotsylvania County Career & Technical Center

6717 Station Road

Fredericksburg, VA

Fee: $75.00 per person

This workshop is appropriate for classroom teachers and will review the

basic principles of ABA through lecture format, demonstration and hands-on

practice. Additional review of discrete trial teaching, functional

communication methods, task analysis, prompting and error correction methods

will be included. Teachers will learn how to design, write and implement

behavioral objectives. Strategies for behavior reduction and behavior

acquisition will be discussed. Strategies for effective use of teaching

assistants will be also discussed.

Seating is Limited - Advance Registration Required

Registrations must be received on or before April 23, 2002

For more information, call 540-368-8087, 561-274-3900 or

fax 561-274-3932.

Mail registration & payment to:

Reaching Potentials, Inc., PO Box 1004, Fredericksburg, VA 22402

Space is limited and registrations will be on a first come-first served

basis.

(Detach this portion, complete and mail with registration fee. Credit card

orders also accepted --MC/Visa)

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Directions

Spotsylvania Career and Technical Center,

6717 Station Road, Fredericksburg, Virginia Ph: 540-898-2655

From the North: Travel I-95 South to Fredericksburg. There are 3 exits for

the area. Take the last exit which is for Massaponax, Route 1. Exit splits

at stop sign for North and South. Get in the left lane and go North.

Take the second left at a traffic light (Pizza Hut is on left, Mc's is

on the diagonal corner) on to Hood Drive. Travel to next traffic light and

turn Left onto Route 201, Courthouse Road. Travel approximately 5 miles and

turn Left onto Station Road at traffic signal. (Food Lion shopping

Center and Hardees is on the left side, Summit Convenience Store is on

right) Take the second left hand turn into the driveway/parking area for

the Spotsylvania County School Board office. 6717 Station Road,

540-898-6032. The Technical Center is behind the School Board Office, simply

follow the access road to the parking lot. SCTC: 898-2655.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

Hays Bachrach, MA, CCC-SLP, BCBA

Clinical Director

Hays Bachrach earned a Masters Degree in Communicative Disorders from

the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida in 1989 and a Bachelor

of Science in 1987 from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Ms. Bachrach is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and has been trained and

certified by Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc. as a Picture Exchange

Communications System Implementer.

During completion of her masters degree studies, Ms. Bachrach completed her

clinical practicum in a pilot project directed by Dr. Ivar Lovaas and the

staff of The Young Autism Project from the University of California at Los

Angeles. Participants received training in Applied Behavior Analysis and

intensive early intervention methods, which were being pioneered by Dr.

Lovaas for individuals with autism. A clinical fellowship followed at

Sertoma Autism Project, under the direction of a local Speech Language

Pathologist and UCLA. Several years later, Ms. Bachrach was a participant

in the Reading and Writing Workshop given by Nina Lovaas from the Lovaas

Institute for Early Intervention.

Ms. Bachrach continued her work within the autism community, building an

extensive private practice in South Florida working with children with

autism and similar developmental disabilities in home based programs which

utilized the methodology pioneered by Dr. Lovaas. In 1995 Ms. Bachrach

helped to establish Reaching Potentials, Inc., a Florida parent-directed

non-profit organization serving children with autism and their families,

where she currently serves as the Clinical Director.

Ms. Bachrach frequently conducts training workshops on discrete trial

teaching and language issues in children with autism, Applied Behavior

Analysis, and other intervention topics. She has consulted to numerous

public school districts and private organizations and has traveled

throughout the United States and abroad to assist parents in establishing

home based early intervention programs for their children with autism.

CHRISTINE PASSARETTI, M.Ed., CBA/e/fl

Program Supervisor

Passaretti earned her Masters of Education Degree in Early

Childhood Special Education and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Child

Development and Psychology, both from Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

Ms. Passaretti is a Florida Certified Behavior Analyst.

Before joining the staff of Reaching Potentials in August 2001, Ms.

Passaretti was affiliated with Above and Beyond Children's Center in

Nashville, Tennessee where she served as the clinical director for a

center-based program that provided ABA services for young children with

autism.

In addition to her center-based work, Ms. Passaretti spent six years

working with children with autism in home-based programs that utilized the

methodology pioneered by Dr. Ivar Lovaas. Throughout this time, she

received monthly training in ABA techniques and programming through the New

Jersey Institute of Early Intervention, a Lovaas research replication site.

Mike Savory

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