Dr Carbone's Intro to Verbal Behavior - June 10th - 12th at Merrimack College in North Andover Mass

[Guest guest]

Title: Workshop #1 Introduction to Verbal Behavior

When: 6/10/2004 - 6/12/2004 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Registration: Download Registration Form (Adobe Acrobat Required) at

http://poac.net/ma

Location & Directions: Directions to Merrimack College - http://poac.net/ma

Address: 315 Turnpike Street, North Andover, Mass

Description of Workshop: This workshop presenter will describe the

behavioral approach to teaching communication skills to children with autism

and other developmental disabilities. This approach is based on B. F.

Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior and the research of , Sundberg,

Partington, and others. Participants in this workshop will learn [1] to

conduct a Behavioral Language Assessment, [2] to select the most appropriate

form of communication for a child or adult (vocal, signing, pointing to or

exchanging pictures, or activating an augmentative device), and [3] to

select the communication responses and supporting skills that should be

taught first. The workshop will include the recommended teaching procedures

for children who have no formal communication skills to children who are

near conversational speakers. The presenter will also describe and

demonstrate errorless teaching, specific quick-transfer (prompting and

fading) procedures, and the use of both discrete trial training in the

natural environment and during intensive teaching sessions. Many videotape

demonstrations will be provided to illustrate the methods to increase

spontaneous language and to develop conversational skills.

Presenter: Dr. J. Carbone is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with

over 25 years of experience designing learning environments for persons with

autism and development disabilities. He received his graduate training in

applied behavior analysis at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. He has

served on the Florida 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. His behavior

analytic research has been published in several 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. Within recent

years he has presented invited addresses on the application of B.F.

Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior at state chapters of the Association

for Behavior Analysis in both Texas and Alabama. He regularly presents his

verbal behavior research at the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis

and the International Association for Behavior Analysis annual conferences.

He has provided the preparatory training and clinical consultation to

hundreds of Certified Behavior Analysts in several states. His research and

clinical expertise focuses predominantly on the design and implementation

of teaching programs for persons with autism with special emphasis upon

teaching verbal behavior to the most difficult to instruct learners. 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

and is presently providing services to persons in Canada and the United

Kingdom. He is the director of a center-based clinic for children with

autism in Rockland County, N.Y. The clinic provides consultation, training

and therapeutic services to children, their families and instructional

teams.

For additional Information, go to www.poac.net/ma or contact me at:

M. s

President

POAC of Massachusetts

(Parents of Autistic Children)

Making a difference...now!

781.475.2762

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