Workshops
Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities
This workshop is designed to provide an overview of B.F. Skinner’s analysis of language to parents, educators, and other practitioners. A review of the primary verbal operants (expressive language skills) will be provided along with a videotape review of teaching methods typically used to teach those skills.
Participants will learn a method to assess a child’s language abilities, and how to implement several important intervention strategies. A major emphasis will be placed on identifying methods to enhance and utilize motivational variables (establishing operations) to teach language in both structured teaching sessions and in daily activities. Techniques for coordinating the ongoing decision making necessary for effective language intervention and methods of data collection and tracking will be presented.
Participants will be able to...
- Identify examples of B.F. Skinner’s verbal operants.
- Describe how curricular variables affect the motivation of young children with autism.
- How teaching a child to mand for reinforcers results in the development of several other important learner skills.
- Identify methods for developing and maintaining the motivation of young children with autism.
- Conduct an initial behavioral language assessment such as to determine the most appropriate initial language intervention for young children with autism.
- Identify the criteria for selection of the initial words to teach young children with autism who do not have expressive language skills.
- Identify the critical elements of discrete trials instruction.
- Explain how to perform a correction procedure in situations in which the student provides an incorrect response.
- Explain how to develop intraverbal skills
- Identify how the critical elements of discrete trial instruction can be implemented within the child’s typical daily events.
| Workshop Schedule | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Introduction to the analysis & assessment of verbal behavior (expressive language) |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 noon | Beginning language skills (early mands, tacts and echoics) |
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Further development of language skills (RFFC, intraverbals and advanced mands) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:30 pm | Teaching language in the natural environment |
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