Workshops
Teaching Language Skills during Daily Activities to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities
Children with autism have communication delays that usually require intensive language intervention. During the everyday activities of daily living, parents have many opportunities to teach language skills to their children. This workshop is designed to help parents and practitioners who work with families identify how the training of a variety of language skills (based upon Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior), can be incorporated into these daily activities. A brief review of Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior will be provided. Participants will review videotapes of young children with autism in a home setting will be used to demonstrate specific methodology for developing and maintaining the student’s participation in language development activities.
Participants will be able to...
- Identify how basic language skills can be taught to young children with autism in the context of on-going daily activities.
- Identify examples of Skinner’s verbal operants that are included in the teaching procedures.
- Describe several examples as to how parents can maintain the motivation of young children during the language instruction.
- Identify how to sequence daily events such that the child’s participation in targeted language activities results in reinforcers that are typically delivered non-contingently.
| Workshop Schedule | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Introduction to verbal behavior assessment |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 noon | Selection of targets for training in the natural environment |
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Video examples of NET training |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:30 pm | Designing and implementing NET programs |
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