Fw: [nsasa] 24 hours of ABA:NYSABA Fri.;Ms.Burk Sat&Sun

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[nsasa] 24 hours of ABA:NYSABA Fri.;Ms.Burk Sat & Sun

> Wow (Fri. Dec. 13), Wow (Sat. Dec.14) and Wow (Sun.Dec 15)!!!!! Friday me

and my carpool of 3 went to Whiteplains for the NYSABA one day work shop

series " Applying Behavior Analysis " where we had the opportunity to choose 1

of 4 topics per workshop series (in which their were 4 series throughout the

day) presented by top professionals and Board Certified Behavior Analysts.

In a nutshell, and unrealisticly, THE ENTIRE STAFF FROM MY SONS SCHOOL

SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE (and should have wanted to be there), ok maybe that

is a little extreme but definitely at the very least the person who

supervises our classrooms (from EVERY campus) should have been there. There

is something to say about getting information from the source as opposed to

being trained by someone who was trained by someone and so on. The further

from the source the more watered down information is. And it is imperative

that along with learning how the science and applications of ABA are

evolving, being consistantly refreshed in all the aspects of ABA (following

are notes I took from M.A., B.C.A.B.A. Dana Reinecke's

presentation)--shaping, chaining, promt fading, incidental teaching, free

operant reinforcement, activity schedules, behavior reduction strategies and

generalizing training-oh yeah, and Discrete Trial Teaching--should be a

priority. This conference for me was very helpful and has helped to put some

anxiety to rest because I am finally beginning to truly understand how to

analyze and even better the teaching procedures implemented on him. I

tended to gravitate towards presentations by Bobby Newman, Ph.D., B.C.B.A

who can present information in a way that 1. you will never forget and 2.

you will understand. I laughed as much as I learned and I am really looking

forward to my husband coming with me to " ABA in Plain English " through ELIJA

in Feb. The next time a NYSABA workshop series is availiable, if I have to I

will pay for and drive any and all teachers or assistants involved with my

son. On Sat and Sun me and different carpool of 4 went to Burk's

presentation through ELIJA. was amazing, and I kept saying to

myself again " god, they should be here " . Her Sat. presentation was

reinforcing all I learned the day before plus the an overview of the history

and development of ABA as well as the book Verbal Behavior by B.F. Skinner

and applying Skinner's analysis of VB into an ABA program. Sun. was about

the Verbal Operants as described by Skinner and how to apply them. Without

going off, let me just say that after this 24 hours of ABA that I attended,

one thing stands clear--- more often then not our childrens degree of

disability, or state of being (lazy, silly, hyper, etc.) is blamed for the

lack of acquisition of new skills or maintained behavior when in reality,

the blame should be on how it was taught. To me this realization is as big

as the " refrigerator mother " scenario. Thank you NYSABA for Friday's one day

workshop and thank you Burk for your 2 day presentaion on applying

VB to an ABA program. Take care, Jennica

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