Re: Dr. Carbone will be presenting at ABA in Boston on May 31st 2004

[Guest guest]

# 378 Special Event

5/31/2004

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

Grand Ballroom

VRB

CE

2004 Tutorial: Clinical Applications of Verbal Behavior Research with

Children with Autism

Chair: McGreevy

Area of Content

Applied

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to state several verbal behavior experimental

research findings which have potential benefit for children with autism.

Participants will be able to state the treatment protocols derived from the

verbal research findings.

Participants will be able to state methods for training instructional staff

in the application of the verbal behavior research findings.

J. Carbone, EdD (Carbone Clinic)

Dr. J. Carbone is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over 25

years of experience designing learning environments for persons with autism and

other development disabilities. He earned his BA in Psychology at Marietta

College, Marietta, Ohio, in 1972. His advisor at Marietta, Dr. Al Prince,

brought

B. F. Skinner to the campus to meet with students and therefore laid the

foundation for Dr. Carbone’s subsequent studies and work in the field. He

earned a

Masters degree in the special education of children with behavior disorders in

1973, from the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. Dr. Carbone

received a second Master’s degree in applied behavior analysis in 1981 at

Drake

University, Des Moines, Iowa. It was there that he received his initial training

in Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior through coursework provided by Dr. W.

Wood. He also earned a doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern

University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He has served on the Peer Review

Committee, which monitors and guides the provision of behavior analysis services

for

persons with autism and related developmental disabilities in Florida. He has

served as an adjunct faculty member at Penn State University and Florida

Institute of Technology teaching courses in Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal

Behavior. Dr. Carbone’s behavior analytic research has been published in

peer-reviewed journals including School Application of Learning Theory,

Education and

Treatment of Children and Journal of Special Education Technology. He is a

frequent invited speaker at professional workshops and conferences. For the past

10 years he has taught the preparatory course for certification as a behavior

analyst. He is the developer and presenter of a series of workshops on

teaching verbal behavior to children with autism based upon B.F. Skinner’s

analysis

of verbal behavior. He and his group of associates are currently working with

several school districts, agencies and families throughout the United States,

Canada and the United Kingdom. Dr. Carbone is the director of a center-based

clinic for children with autism in Rockland County, N.Y. His clinic provides

therapeutic services, consultation, and training to children their families and

instructional teams.

Abstract: The field of behavior analysis has contributed enormously to the

development of effective methods of treatment for children with autism. Ivar

Lovaas and his colleagues have contributed extensively to the behavior analytic

research in this area. His 1987 outcome study led to an increased interest and

recognition of the benefit of early and intensive behavioral interventions for

children with autism. The effectiveness of behavioral treatments for children

with autism is now widely recognized by professionals and even demanded by

parents and other consumers. Despite parent and consumer demands for behavioral

treatments many practitioners have failed to take full advantage of the

behavioral analysis of language presented by B.F. Skinner (1957) in his book

Verbal

Behavior. While most behavioral programs for children with autism target

communication and language skills, the treatment methods are usually chosen from

language paradigms that ignore and even conflict with Skinner’s natural

science

approach. Notwithstanding the current state of affairs regarding language

instruction for children with autism, a substantial body of experimental

research

has demonstrated the benefits of Skinner’s analysis for teaching verbal

behavior to persons who have not acquired it typically. In recent years the

publication of Sundberg and Partington’s (1998) teaching manual along with

other

developments in the field have resulted in greater application of the verbal

behavior research findings. The purpose of this tutorial is to identify and

briefly

discuss several lines of verbal behavior research that have led to successful

clinical applications for children with autism. In each instance a brief

review of the research findings will be followed by video illustrations of the

clinical applications. Issues related to the clinical training of practitioners

necessary for successful application of Skinner’s analysis will be discussed.

# 380 International Symposium

5/31/2004

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

Hampton

DEV/CBM