Upcoming ABA/VB Workshops - Schramm

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Hi folks,

I Just wanted to share with all of you my worskhop schedule for the rest of

2008. Please feel free to email me back off list if you have any questions or

need information on any of the following dates. All of the workshops listed

here are in English only accept for the Hannover workshop which will be

accessable in both English and German.

Also, I am currently beginning to schedule the first half of 2009. If your

community or group would be interested in sponsoring an Introductory ABA/VB

workshop please feel free to email me off list as well.

Thanks,

Upcoming Dates and Locations:

ABA/VB Workshop #2 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA October 6th - 7th, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Dallas, Texas, USA October 8th - 9th, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Kaiserslautern, Germany

October 25th - 26th, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Zurich, Switzerland November 1st-2nd, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Hannover, Germany November 15th - 16th, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #2 in Chicago, Illinois, USA December 1st - 2nd, 2008

ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia December 18th-19th, 2008

Introductory ABA/VB workshop #1 " Be your child's best teacher "

This is not a typical workshop designed to merely

explain what ABA with Verbal Behavior is. This workshop introduces many

of the major principles of ABA/VB offering information that will allow

those in attendance to begin thinking about the behavior choices of

their children with (and without) autism in more productive and

successful ways. (Note: ABA is a scientific approach to assessing

behavior and can only be conducted by trained individuals under the

guidance of a qualified behavior analyst).

Day One: The principles of ABA/VB

1. What is Autism

2. ABA = Good Teaching

3. Knospe-ABA Teaching Philosophy

4. Our Qualifications and training

5. Why you need to “Be Your Child’s Best Teacher” (video)

6. The History of ABA and Verbal Behavior

7. The importance of individuality (learning about the ABLLS)

8. The ABC Paradigm (the basics of Behavior)

9. Reinforcement vs. Punishment

10. Earning Instructional Control (Videos)

11. Capturing and creating motivation to learn (Video)

12. Discrete Trial Teaching Format

13. Watch the progress of children in ABA/VB programs (Video)

Day Two: The teaching Strategies of ABA/VB

1. What is Verbal Behaivor?

2. The Nine Categories of Language

3. Three types of Teaching (video)

4. Intensive teaching strategies (videos)

5. Prompting and Fading

6. Teaching children to echo sounds (video)

7. Teaching children to talk (videos)

8. Sign Language (video)

9. Verbal Imitation (Video)

10. Beginning Mands (Requests) (video)

11. Common teaching mistakes to avoid

12. Understanding Behavior

13. Using a teaching arc and mini-consequences (video)

14. Can you do this? (video)

15. What you can do right now

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Schramm, MA, BCBA

Author of Educate Toward Recovery:

Turning the Tables on Autism

www.lulu.com/knospe-aba

www.knospe-aba.com

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" There is no greater testament to character than

the selfless act designed to go unnoticed "