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The Essential Content and Structure of a Home Based ABA/VB Programme
Saturday 27^th April 2013

Making use of the Analysis of Verbal Behaviour in Teaching Language to Children with Developmental Disabilities
Saturday 18^th May 2013

The Essential Content and Structure of a Home Based ABA/VB Programme

Venue: St Albans Centre, 18 Brooke Street, London, EC1N 7RD View map Travel info
Date: Saturday 27^th April 2013
Timings: Registration 9:30am, Start 10am, Lunch 12-12:45pm, Close 5pm
Cost: £70 if you book before 15th April (£90 afterwards). Cost includes coffee/tea and biscuits, a 10% discount is available to returning delegates and for group bookings of 3 persons or more.
Payment: Payments to be made by BACS or cheque. Invoices will be sent via email on request. Your place on the course will be confirmed on receipt of payment.

The workshop will be presented by Catherine Green, MEd, BCBA. Catherine is a Consultant Behaviour Analyst with a thriving London based practice. She is also the mother of a child with autism and is currently studying for her PhD in Applied Behaviour Analysis at Simmons College, Boston (USA).

The workshop focuses on the essential elements of high quality ABA programme management and is suitable for those who are thinking of embarking on an ABA programme or those wishing to assess the quality of their current intervention. The course is also suitable for therapists working in the field of ABA and will act as an excellent opportunity to meet fellow families and professionals.

COURSE OUTLINE

The Essential Content and Structure of a Home Based ABA/VB Programme

Part 1: Quality Indicators in ABA Programming

Key Quality Indicators of a good ABA/VB programme
The 7 Dimensions of ABA and how they relate to programme content and structure

Part 2: Baseline Assessment and Report

Conducting an assessment of a learner’s current skill levels across all main areas of functioning
Identifying ‘barriers to learning’
Conducting a Functional Behaviour Assessment (FBA) of challenging behaviour and identifying replacement behaviours

Part 3: Curriculum structure and design

Targeting social, language and functional living skills for increase, targeting challenging behaviour for decrease and replacement and programming to overcome the ‘barriers to learning’

Part 4: Demonstrating the effectiveness of a programme through data collection, display and analysis

Measurement, data collection and display in ABA
Taking baseline data, tracking acquisition of skills, tracking skills on maintenance
Graphing data for analysis and keeping a programme moving forward

Part 5: Key areas for staff training

Understanding of a behavioural classification of language
Using teaching techniques from the research on Verbal Behaviour Analysis
Programming for Generalisation

The workshop will include: a review of available curricula, an example of a data book and a variety of useful documents. If you have any further questions regarding the content of the courses and to make your bookings then please contact us as early as possible on enquiries@abatutorfinder.com.

Making use of the Analysis of Verbal Behaviour in Teaching Language to Children with Developmental Disabilities

Venue: St Albans Centre, 18 Brooke Street, London, EC1N 7RD View map Travel info
Date: Saturday 18^th May 2013
Timings: Registration 9:30am, Start 10am, Lunch 12-12:45pm, Close 5pm
Cost: £70 if you book before 8th May (£90 afterwards). Cost includes coffee/tea and biscuits, a 10% discount is available to returning delegates and for group bookings of 3 persons or more.
Payment: Payments to be made by BACS or cheque. Invoices will be sent via email on request. Your place on the course will be confirmed on receipt of payment.

The course will be presented by Catherine Green MEd, BCBA. Catherine is a Consultant Behaviour Analyst with a thriving London based practice. She is also the mother of a child with autism and is currently studying for her PhD in Applied Behaviour Analysis at Simmons College, Boston (USA).

This is a course suitable for families and therapists wishing to learn more about the use of Skinner’s analysis of Verbal Behaviour in assessing language profiles and in optimising the effectiveness of teaching language to children on the autism spectrum. It is also an excellent opportunity to meet and network with fellow families and/or therapists.

COURSE OUTLINE

Making Use of the Analysis of Verbal Behaviour in Teaching Language to Children with Developmental Disabilities

A behavioural classification of language - Skinner's 1957 Book 'Verbal Behavior'
What ‘verbal’ means
Function vs. Form
The Speaker and The Listener
A taxonomy of elementary Verbal Operants (units): Definitions and examples: Mand; Tact; Intraverbal; Echoic; Mimetic; Autoclitic; Textual; Transcriptive and Copying a Text
The functional independence of verbal units
Assessing a verbal repertoire
Analysing a verbal profile
How using a behavioural classification of language increases the effectiveness of our teaching
Common verbal profiles in children with autism
Designing a functional VB programme
Teaching techniques used in VB programmes
VB based curricula, assessments and resources

The workshop will include videos and role-plays demonstrating elements of the analysis of verbal behaviour. If you have any further questions regarding the content of the courses please do not hesitate to contact us. Please contact us as early as possible with your bookings.