AD: NET Seminar May 8--CEUs available

[Guest guest]

Natural Environment Training

Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. (lunch on your own)

Workshop with Dr. Carl Sundberg

Location: The Children's Medical Center of Dayton

One Children's Plaza, Dayton, OH 45404, Auditorium (Lower Level)

Teaching in the natural environment is a critical skill to acquire.

Unfortunately parents, therapist and teachers often struggle with this aspect of

an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) program. Many mistakenly think ABA takes

place only at a table with a wide array of drills. While it is true that trials

in the natural environment may not be as intense or frequent, the quality is

typically better and more realistic. Natural environment teaching (NET) by

itself may not be sufficient when an ABA program requires formal trials and

structure. However NET and table work both are typically needed and complement

each other. In this workshop participants will learn how to create teaching

situations while doing everyday activities such as bath, dinner, and bedtime

routines, or playing in the backyard, etc. Strategies for working with children

in a mainstream classroom setting will also be discussed.

This workshop will cover...

.. The importance of including both natural environment training

(NET) and discrete trial training (DTT) into a child's program

.. How to capture situations to create language opportunities

.. How to contrive or engineer situations to create language

opportunities

.. How to teach Mands in the natural environment

.. What to do with a skill once it is taught (Where are we going with

this?)

.. How to teach your child to generalize skills learned in a more

structured setting (i.e., DTT)

.. How to teach skills that are functional for the student

.. How to write teaching objectives for NET activities

.. Strategies for working with your child in the mainstream classroom

.. Teaching strategies that will maximize your child's success in the

classroom

This seminar is free for DAFEAT members.

Cost for non-members is $36 and includes a year-long DAFEAT membership.

Register online or find the registration form at www.dafeat.org. The

registration deadline is April 30, 2010. Questions? Contact Holly at

937-526-4525 or at registration @ dafeat.org.

PLEASE NOTE: Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for Board

Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) and Board Certified Associate Behavior

Analysts (BCaBAs). For more information email CEUs@....

About Dr. Sundberg.

Carl T. Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA-D is the director of the Behavior Analysis Center

for Autism (BACA), located in Fishers, Indiana. He received his doctorate degree

in Applied Behavior Analysis from Western Michigan University under the

direction of Dr. Jack . Dr. Sundberg utilizes B.F. Skinner's analysis of

verbal behavior within the framework of applied behavior analysis to teach

children with language and social deficits. As a graduate student, he taught

behavior analysis at Western Michigan University for 7 years. Dr. Sundberg has

publications in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior and A Collection of Reprints on

Verbal Behavior. Since 1996 Dr. Sundberg has assessed and worked with more than

400 children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and has worked with

over 150 families. In addition to private consulting, Dr. Sundberg also works

with school districts and speaks at conferences across the nation.

Additionally, he teaches Verbal Behavior at Ball State University and is

president of the Hoosier Association for Behavior Analysis.