ABA International

[Guest guest]

For those of you professionals on the group who have been hearing me discuss the

concept of earning instructional control with my 7 steps that allows us to avoid

the use of escape blocking, forced physical prompting or nagging procedures,

there will be two opportunities to see what we are doing and discuss its value

at this year's ABA international in San . The first is a 3-hour workshop

offering CE units on Friday the 28th and the second is a Panel Discussion with

three case studies scheduled for Monday the 31st.

I have attached the event info from the ABAI website. I hope to see some of you

there.

Workshop #40 CE: PSY/BACB

05/28/2010

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Republic A (Grand Hyatt)

AUT

CE Instructor: Schramm, M.A., BCBA

Motivating Learner Participation Without Blocking Escape, Forced Physical

Prompts, or Nagging

ROBERT SCHRAMM (Institute Knospe-ABA)

Description: The goal of this workshop is to discuss the importance of learner

assent and the effect it has on skill acquisition. The ability to gain learner

assent through the development of instructional control is an absolute must in

teaching children with and without autism spectrum disorders. However, one of

the main procedures used in basic compliance training (blocking escape) works

contrary to the idea of learner assent. So the question then becomes, how can

instructional control be developed with an unwilling learner without the use of

common escape extinction procedures? And what effect does the process of earning

instructional control without these procedures have on the ultimate skill

acquisition of the learner? This workshop shares a method of earning

instructional control with unwilling learners through a seven-step procedure

that when applied comprehensively in programming can eschew the need for

blocking escape, forced physical prompting,

and nagging procedures in programming.

Objectives:

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will have learned the

following: 1. to value the importance of learner assent in home, clinic, and

education settings; 2. creative and practical methods for controlling the access

to reinforcement in all environments; 3. the value and process of pairing

oneself with reinforcement; 4. the value and process of being meticulously

contingent with words and actions; 5. the differences between positive and

negative reinforcement and why one is valuable in earning instructional control

with an unwilling learner; 6. to effectively use and increase a variable ratio

of reinforcement; 7. to prioritize learning objectives and use differential

reinforcement effectively; 8. how to best use extinction and negative punishment

procedures; 9. the concept of a teaching arc and how to prolong the value of

teaching over several different reinforcement teaching settings for the length

of teaching interactions.

Activities:

The workshop will include discussion, a video demonstration, a lecture on the

seven steps to earning instructional control, and the development of a teaching

arc.

Audience:

Anyone working with unwilling or unmotivated learners who are interested in

working without blocking escape, forced physical prompting, or nagging

procedures, including parents, teachers, therapists, and behavior analysts.

Level: Intermediate

Member: $125.00 Non-Member: $180.00

# 445 Panel Discussion

05/31/2010

3:00 PM - 3:50 PM

203AB (CC)

AUT; Applied Behavior Analysis

Gaining Learner Instructional Control Without Blocking Escape, Forced Physical

Prompts, or Nagging

Chair: Schramm (Institute Knospe-ABA)

BENNO BOECKH (Institute Knospe-ABA)

ALLISON KANE (Kane ABA Consulting)

SILVA VARTOOMIAN KLEINFELD VARTOOMIAN(University of land, Balitmore County)

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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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