AL-ABA workshop with Dr. Sundberg

[Guest guest]

The Alabama Association for Behavior Analysis will hold its 2002 convention

in Birmingham at the Sheraton Birmingham South Hotel on October 29th-31st.

For complete information on this convention refer to

http://www.auburn.edu/alaba/

The keynote speaker for the 2002 convention will be Mark L. Sundberg, Ph.D.

The title of his address will be " Skinner¹s Verbal Behavior: New Directions

for Discrete Trial Training. "

Dr. Sundberg is well known in the field of behavior analysis for his work in

the area of verbal behavior. His major professor in graduate school at

Western Michigan University was Dr. Jack , who is widely recognized at

the foremost interpreter and teacher of B. F. Skinner¹s 1957 masterwork,

titled simply, Verbal behavior. Dr. Sundberg later founded the only journal

in this area, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior , and served as its editor for

some years. The journal was later taken over by the Association for Behavior

Analysis and continues to be published.

Dr. Sundberg took his interest in verbal behavior into his work in the field

of developmental disabilities while he was still in graduate school. Over

years of working with children with developmental disabilities, particularly

autism, he and his colleagues developed methods for teaching this most

complex of all human behaviors that have always represented the state of the

art in this field. He eventually co-authored (with W. Partington,

Ph.D.) the books Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other

Developmental Disabilities and The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning

Skills: The ABLLS . These books are widely respected in the autism community,

which helps explain the enormous popularity of Dr. Sundberg¹s presentations.

Dr. Sundberg will also be giving a Preconvention Workshop on October 29,

2002.

Preconvention Workshop - Teaching Language to Children with Autism

Mark L. Sundberg, Ph.D., Behavior Analysts, Inc.

This workshop will cover the basic elements of B. F. Skinner's analysis of

language, language assessment, and beginning a language intervention program

for a child who has little (fewer than 100 words) or no verbal skills. The

objectives of this workshop are to teach participants how to: 1) Use a

behavioral approach to language assessment (e.g., mands, tacts, and

intraverbals), 2) Establish an effective individualized language intervention

program for children with autism, 3) Utilize motivational variables to teach

language in structured sessions (discrete trial training), and in on-going

daily activities (natural environment training), 4) Write language based IEPs

and use the most efficient data collection system, and 5) Determine if

augmentative communication is necessary, and if so, which type might be best

for an individual child (e.g., sign language, PECS, writing). In addition,

the workshop will spend some time on more advanced topics, including

developing intervention programs to teach RFFC, and intraverbal skills,

developing intervention programs to teach multiple component tacts (e.g.,

subject-verb-noun), and advanced tacting (e.g., prepositions, adjectives,

feelings), and developing intervention programs to teach manding for missing

items, manding for information, and manding to remove aversives. This

workshop is designed for parents, special education teachers and aides,

speech and language pathologists, behavior analysts, psychologists, in-home

trainers, students, direct care staff, program specialists, administrators

and other human service professionals.

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Continuing Education Units - $5/hour (to be charged on site)

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early registration deadline (October 15, 2001).

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is being paid. All registrations must be at the full member, 2-day rate.

3. Purchase orders must be accompanied by registration

forms for each person listed. Substitutions will be permitted, but there

will be no refunds on purchase orders.

Registrants are responsible for insuring that their employers meet these

conditions.