Great response for Advanced Behavioral Workshop/doing it again...

[Guest guest]

Due to overwhelming interest and a great response, Dr. Schnee and Ms.

Melconian will present their min-workshop again on Mon. April 3rd.

Advanced Behavioral Programming

Beyond ABLES:

Thinking about Conversing/Conversing about Thinking

The Crowne Plaza Paramus Park

201 262 6900

7:00pm

Fee: $10

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Abstract:

About 25% of children diagnosed with autism are described as having

`mild autism' or as `high functioning'. While these

children seem to acquire skills quickly and often `top' out of

the available curricula (ABLES, the Eden curriculum, etc.), these

students continue to struggle in profound ways. A careful evaluation

reveals significant and predictable areas of difficulty related to

advanced prepositional use (multiple prepositions, prepositional phrases

etc), advanced pronoun use (pronoun transformations, diexic uses of

pronouns) and advanced descriptive language (describing `who did

what to whom' or answering a simple question such as `what

happened?) among others. These difficulties (and others) effect all

aspects of higher order social, academic and cognitive functioning so

that children can't converse fluently or flexibly, can't reason

through simple problems of causality or inference, show impaired skills

in basic explanatory language (can't respond to novel `how'

and `why' questions) and in general terms, these students

can't seem to " get the whole picture " or " can't read

between the lines " .

Dr. Schnee and Ms. Melconian will discuss these issues and present a

treatment model which systematically organizes programming to address

these concerns. The model is designed to help students integrate the

vast bits of information acquired during their programming so that new

relations emerge between these pieces of information. Through these new

relations `meaning' emerges and our student become fluent

conversationalists, speculators, and good perspective takers (good at

Theory of Mind)….wherein… we begin to see students achieving

their suspected potentials.