Still room at Lori Frost's Incoporating Pecs across the day Workshop!

[Guest guest]

October 13 2006

Presenter: Lori Frost MS SLP CCC

Topic:Incorporating PECS Across the Day

Location: Plainview Marriott Residence Inn 9 Gerhard Rd. Plainview

NY

Time:8:30am to 4pm (registration starts at 8:00)

Cost:150.00 Member Fee / 200.00 Non Elija Member Fee / 225.00 Late

or Walk In

Ceu's: .6 ASHA CEUs Advanced Level, Professional Area - Attendees

wanting these CEUs are going to be charged an additional 25.00

Description: Although PECS is typically begun in a structured

setting, its successful use is dependent on the student's being

expected to and being able to communicate across the entire day

within both structured and incidental formats. This presentation

describes strategies for incorporating PECS across an entire day

within functional contexts with expectations for the student to use

language beyond single picture requests. Specifically, " Advanced "

PECS lessons that teach a variety of linguistic concepts and

syntactical structures are described. Selection of appropriate

targets, creation of functional lessons, and strategies for

incorporating PECS within all activities are discussed.

Learner Objectives:

* The critical expressive communication skills to teach children

using PECS

* How to design advanced PECS lessons

* How to analyze a classroom day and program communicative

opportunities into all activities

* Specific training strategies for teaching linguistic concepts with

PECS within functional routines across the day

About the Presenter: Lori Frost is vice-president and co-founder of

Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc. She is co-author of the PECS

Training Manual. She has been the driving force behind creating this

unique system that allows children with limited communication

abilities to initiate communication with teachers, parents, and

peers. Ms. Frost has a wealth of background in functional

communication training and applied behavior analysis. She has

assisted in the development of a number of training packages

designed to teach language and academic skills. Ms. Frost received

her BA in speech pathology and audiology from the University of

Arkansas, and MS in speech and language pathology from the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982. She has worked

in many public and private school settings as a speech pathologist.

As a Pyramid consultant, Ms. Frost has traveled across the country

and the world, teaching workshops on PECS and the Pyramid Approach

to Education. She has presented a number of papers and lectures on

autism and communication, co-authored several articles and chapters,

and is respected by professionals in her field as a leader in

functional communication systems.

Registration: Click here for PECS Across the Day Workshop

http://elija.org/PECS2006.html