BOSTON!! Verbal Behavior Workshop by Establishing Operations!!

[Guest guest]

TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR IN THE NATURAL AND INTENSIVE TEACHING

ENVIRONMENT

HANDS ON VB WORKSHOP

Dates: April 26, 27, 28, 2010

Time: 8:30-4:30

Location: Confidence Connection, 140 Gould Street, Needham MA 02494

PRESENTED BY:

SPONSORED BY:

Establishing Operations

Confidence Connection

This THREE-day workshop conducted by Establishing Operations, provides

consultants, therapists, other professionals and parents (who take an

active role in their child's language program) with guided practice

in implementing the methods described in introductory verbal behavior

workshops. This hands-on workshop is devoted to teaching entirely in the

Natural intensive teaching environment. The participants will spend most

of their time practicing the methods of effective instruction.

Participants will receive precise feedback on their teaching methods.

Participants practice teaching methods and receive precise feedback from

instructors on their performance. Emphasis is placed on maintaining

participant motivation and encouraging back and forth involvement

throughout the workshop. It is found that " hands on " workshops

result in better participant retention as well as a greater level of

confidence and ability to generalize information to the classroom and

implement the procedures in situations with children. When " hands

on " workshops are provided, fewer training days are necessary to

achieve the same level of learner knowledge and retention. The

participants will spend most of their time learning the methods of

effective instruction. Participants receive guided practice and feedback

in the following areas:

Day ONE: TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT- " HANDS

ON " WORKSHOP

· Using the ABLLS to develop a natural environment teaching

program for intermediate and

· advanced learners;

· Guided instruction and video examples of NET objectives

indicated in the ABLLS;

· Lesson Plan Development for intermediate to advanced

learners with hands on practice and

· guided feedback at each learner level; due to only one day,

very little hands on for the NET portion, we may have time to write some

mand for info examples and " maybe " have them do the program

development for an intermediate learner.

· Teaching the early learner to request items and activities;

We have to omit all early learner, all that info is on our NET DVDs

anyway, so they can use them to prep if necessary.

· Manipulating motivating operations (MO's) to compete

with the value of self stimulatory behavior when teaching the mand;

· Data Collection in the natural environment across all

learner levels;

· Teaching the receptive, tacting, intraverbal and motor

imitation repertoires in the NET for intermediate to advanced learners;

· Teaching the intermediate learner to mand (request) using

sentences, actions, missing items, requesting help, using " yes "

and " no " and many others;

· Generalizing skills taught in the intensive teaching

setting into the natural environment;

· Teaching advanced learners to request information using WH

questions;

· Teaching the advanced learner to answer novel WH questions

and recall past events;

· Teaching the mand (request) for attention;

· Teaching the intermediate to advanced learner to follow

multiple step receptive

· instructions;

· Teaching the advanced learner to request items with

prepositions, adjectives and

· pronouns;

· Teaching reciprocal conversation for the advanced learner;

· wont have time for these.

Day TWO and THREE: TEACHING IN THE INTENSIVE TEACHING

ENVIRONMENT- " HANDS ON " WORKSHOP

· Establishing instructional control with an unwilling

learner

· Manipulating motivating operations (MO) during teaching

opportunities to maintain learner attention

· How to develop an intensive teaching program using the

ABLLS

· (Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills, Drs.

Partington and Sundberg)

· Video examples and guided instruction to teach

pre-requisite objectives necessary to achieve conversation

· Teaching language in the intensive teaching environment to

non-vocal children using sign language

· How to teach each of the objectives outlined in the ABLLS

(over 75 objectives covered!)

· Teaching early to advanced receptive skills

· Teaching early to advanced motor imitation skills

· Teaching early to advanced tacting skills

· Teaching early to advanced intraverbal skills

· How to increase the complexity of a learner's program

as they acquire skills

· Organizing your program materials and data recording

methods, including hands on practice for data recording.

Prerequisites: It is recommended that participants have previously

attended some type of intro to VB workshop and have at least some

experience teaching children with autism. Please contact Confidence

Connection (781-433-9890) to access the video recordings of an intro to

VB workshop. Requests to attend this workshop without prior intro

workshop attendance will be considered. Please bring an original ABLLS

manual to the course.

COST: $595/per person

To register please go to: www.establishingoperationsinc.com

<http://www.establishingoperationsinc.com/workshops.php>