2 Workshops with Dr. McGreevy in Toronto

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2 Upcoming Workshops

Brookfield Programs Presents

Dr. McGreevy, Ph.D., BCBA

At the University of Toronto, St. 's College

121 St. ph Street in the Alumni Theatre

Workshop 1 - Saturday October 25, 2003

Teaching Appropriate Social Behavior to

Children and Adults with Autism and other Developmental Disabilities

This workshop provides specific applied behaviour analysis (ABA) teaching

and management strategies designed to replace repetitive, non-compliant,

disruptive, non-functional, aggressive, and self-injurious behavior in

children with Autism or Aspergers syndrome with appropriate social and

communication skills. The workshop is designed for parents, in-home

therapists, teachers, speech-language pathologists, psychologists, and their

supervisors.

" These procedures have been validated in the scientific literature, rather

than those that " sound good, look good, and/ or feel good. "

Dr. McGreevy will describe and demonstrate ABA procedures to effectively

manage and replace:

? Non-compliance and inappropriate attention seeking

? Transitions; Inattentiveness; Not accepting corrective feedback

? Echolalia or the lack of an echoic repertoire

? Stereotypic behavior, including repetitive phrases and sentences

? Obsessive-compulsive behavior, including rituals

? Selective eating

? Not following multiple-step receptive commands

? Failing to make specific discriminations and conditional discriminations

? Any of these situations or behaviors that are followed by disruptive,

aggressive, or self-injurious behavior

Workshop 2 -Sunday October 26, 2003

Intensive Training in Verbal Behavior

Teaching Language to Children and Adults with Autism and other Developmental

Disabilities

This workshop is designed for parents, in-home therapists, teachers,

behavior analysts, speech-language pathologists, psychologists, and their

supervisors, who have previously attended an introductory workshop in Verbal

Behavior or who have participated in the implementation of this approach

with one or more learners.

Utilizing B.F. Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior as well as the work of

Mark Sundberg, Jim Partington, Vince Carbone, Jack and his own

research and practice, Dr. McGreevy will discuss and demonstrate many

specific teaching procedures unfamiliar to most professionals and parents.

Dr. McGreevy will describe and demonstrate the following elements of a

Verbal Behavior program:

? Teaching advanced mands, tacts, and intraverbals; Teaching 'across' the

operants and the ABLLS

? Using the ABLLS to plan a program of instruction

? Striking a balance between intensive and natural environment teaching

? Using stimulus control transfer procedures and joint control procedures

? Teaching 'variation' from the beginning and thinning the schedule of

reinforcement quickly

? Selection of a response form, especially for children and adults without

an echoic repertoire

? Teaching conversation and increasingly complex autoclitics

? Coordinating language instruction with academic instruction

? Using precise probe data collection and teaching to fluency

Biography

Dr. McGreevy received B.S. and M.A. degrees in Psychology and Special

Education, respectively, from the University of Iowa. He was a special

education teacher for eight years and received the Ph.D. degree in Education

from Kansas University with an emphasis in ABA and Precision Teaching. He

has taught at several universities and is the author of Teaching and

Learning in Plain English, an introduction to Precision Teaching, and the

founder and first editor of the Journal of Precision Teaching. Dr. McGreevy

opened a private practice in Behavior Analysis in Winter Park, FL, in 1995.

He has served and continues to serve as a behavior analyst and consulting

behavior analyst for a number school districts and agencies in the United

States. He also provides consultation and hands-on training to families in

the United States and Western Europe.

McGreevy, Ph.D., P.A. Board Certified Behavior Analyst - Visit his

Website at - www.behaviorchange.com

1265 South Semoran, Suite 1249; Winter Park, FL USA 32792 Telephone:

07-629-1099 drmcg@...

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October 9, 2003.

Prior to October 9, 2003

Brookfield Programs Presents

Dr. McGreevy, Ph.D., BCBA

At the University of Toronto, St. 's College

121 St. ph Street in the Alumni Theatre (3 blocks south of Bloor St. 1

block west of Bay. St.)

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Lunch is on your own both days - refreshments provided

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Cancellation Policy

Prior to October 5, 2003 - full fund less $25 administration fee. October 5,

2003 to October 15, 2003 - 50% refund. There are no refunds after October

15, 2003.