Dr. Carbone Workshop

[Guest guest]

Introduction to Verbal Behavior: Teaching Communication Skills to

Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities:

February 13-15, 2008 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Presented by Dr. J. Carbone, Ed.D., Board Certified Behavior

Analyst

This workshop will inspire, stimulate, and refresh educators,

parents, and providers.

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

over 30 years of experience designing learning environments for

persons with autism and development disabilities.Learn more about

internationally renowned Dr. Carbone at www.drcarbone.net.

REGISTER NOW at www.janusacademy.com

This workshop focuses on 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 to:

• conduct a Behavioral Language Assessment;

• select the most appropriate form of communication for a child

(vocalizing, signing, pointing to or exchanging pictures, or

activating an augmentative device);

• select the communication responses and supporting skills that

should be taught first.

The workshop includes the recommended teaching procedures for those

children who have no formal communication skills to those that are

near conversational speakers. The presenter also describes and

demonstrates 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 video tape demonstrations are provided to illustrate the methods

to increase spontaneous language and to develop conversational

skills.

This workshop is sponsored by Janus Academy. For more information on

the Janus Academy or this workshop, please visit www.janusacademy.com

or call (403) 262-3333.