Great ABA/Verbal Behavior Info.

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Hi Folks,

This is . Many of you on these lists know me as the author of the VB book

" Educate Toward Recovery: Turning the Tables on Autism "

(www.lulu.com/knospe-aba). I am emailing this crosspost because, I just returned

from a London workshop and I feel compelled to share this information about the

wonderful goings on in the Verbal Behavior approach to

ABA.

I sent 5 of my ABA/VB consultants and trainees to see the EO inc. Workshop

" Teaching Verbal Behavior " in London. I even sat in on some of the workshop

myself.

I cannot tell you how impressed I was with the information presented. The

presenters Holly Kibbe BCBA and Donnelly BCABA (Cherish Twigg BCBA is

soon to be a mom) were clear and caring. I participated in this workshop about 5

years ago and enjoyed it then, but there is so much to be learned in the details

of this 4 day workshop opportunity that I am so glad that I decided to see it

again.

The new information and procedures they are sharing dealing with Stimulus

Stimulus Pairing are exciting and I look forward to seeing how they work with

our children who are learning sign really well but are slower to make the

transfer to spoken language. I also love the work they are doing with

intermediate and advanced learners building conversational language. Some of it

was just truly impressive

I can just say that if any ABA providers out there considering learning more

about VB. I strongly recommend that you start with a Carbone Clinic

Introductory Worskhop (www.carboneclinic.com) that you learn how to use the

ABLLS assessement from Behavior Analysts inc. (www.behavioranalysts.com) and

that you participate in the Teaching Verbal Behavior workshop offered by EO inc.

(www.establishingoperationsinc.com). If you cannot get to a worskhop by EO inc.

I would recommend that you consider investing in their " Teaching Verbal

Behavior " DVD set.

This is also the path I would recommend for any parent of children with autism

who want to be proactive in assuring their child has the best opportunity at an

appropriate and effective education leading even the earliest learners toward

spoken language and typical converstational skills if not all the way toward

recovery.

Also, in the VB news, there is a new book that was written by Lynch

Barbera, RN, MSN, BCBA called " The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach

Children with Autism

and Related Disorders "

This book is available now for pre-order at www.amazon. com (http://www.amazon.

com) or through the publisher at www.jkp.com (http://www.jkp. com)

To get started, free information on ABA/VB is also available by reading the

website of Burk, BCBA (www.christinaburkaba.com) t Burk

(www.autismteachingtools.com) and by going to www.mariposaschool.org and

downloading the free:

" Training Manual compiled for Verbal Behavior Training Seminars "

by Vail and Freeman

and edited by s for Verbal Behavior Training Seminars July -

October, 2002

I truly hope that if you are not currently actively involved in a in-home ABA

based therapy program with your child or if you are using ABA without the

perspective of VB (with your child or as a professional) that you consider these

resources. The quality of the education that children with autism can receive

has grown tremendously in just the past decade or so and the people behind these

resources above are the push behind getting this information to the families who

need it most.

Good luck and good teaching to all of you,

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Schramm, MA, BCBA

www.lulu.com/knospe-aba

www.knospe-aba.com

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