Autism Conference- Houston, TX

[Guest guest]

Location and Date:

HOUSTON, TX

Thursday/Friday

November 29-30, 2007

Hotel: Sheraton North Houston at Bush Intercontinental Airport,

15700 F. Kennedy Blvd., Houston, Texas 77032

Phone: 281-442-5100

Hosted by: The Learning Lane, Crawford, M.Ed, BCABA

Title of Course:

Teaching Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities to

Speak: Advances in Techniques to Develop Functional Verbal

Communication Skills (1.2 CEUs – 12 contact hours)

Speakers:

Kaufman, MA, CCC-SLP

Tamara Kasper, MS, CCC-SLP, BCBA

Course Description:

Many children with developmental disabilities, including autism and

Down's Syndrome, are non-verbal or unintelligible in their

communication behavior. Even in the absence of oral-motor weakness

many of these individuals cannot effectively communicate verbally.

Advances in the process of differential diagnosis have identified many

of these individuals as having apraxia of speech. Incorporating

specific intervention techniques that include the progression of word

approximations toward target words ( Kaufman's Program) and

modifications of the Kaufman Approach specific to individuals with

autism (Tamara Kasper's Approach) have been found to be effective in

improving speech intelligibility and functional communication in this

population.

This seminar will explain in detail how to implement the Kaufman and

Kasper Approaches to improving verbal communication in children with

developmental disabilities. Participants will learn how to

systematically introduce motivators to encourage verbal communication,

cuing and shaping techniques to improve speech intelligibility, and

timing and rationale of fading cuing and shaping techniques. The

ultimate goal of this seminar is to help individuals with

developmental disabilities become functional and independent in verbal

communication.

Contact and To Register:

Northern Speech Services

www.nss-nrs. com

infonss-nrs (DOT) com

888.337.3866

Tuition:

$275 individual

$255 group of two from same school/facility

$225 group of five from same school/facility

$150 Parent (no CEUs) – add $50 per additional family member