DAFEAT sponsors VB Workshop (Deadline to sign up Friday)

[Guest guest]

Ralston, BCABA, will present " An Introduction to Verbal Behavior” Jan.

17, 2005 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by Dayton Area

Families for Effective Autism Treatment (DAFEAT).

Location: 3100 Research Blvd. Kettering, OH 45420-4022

Deadline to register is Jan. 7, 2005.

Cost is $50 and includes a 1-year membership to DAFEAT.

This workshop will focus on

The key principles to understanding behavior (both adaptive and maladaptive);

The motivational variables under which children acquire language.

The teaching procedures necessary for success within a VB program,

concentrating on:

the use and purpose of errorless learning techniques,

mixing and varying of instructional skills,

providing a deliberate ratio of easy skills versus acquisition skills,

shaping, chaining, prompting, and fading.

Skinner's behavioral classification of language, known as the Verbal

Operants. These include: mands (requests); tacts (labels); echoic (vocal

imitation); motor imitation; RFFCs; receptive language; and intraverbals

(answering questions, conversation).

Ralston is a Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst and independent

behavior analyst from Lexington, KY. In the past five years Ms. Ralston has

worked with over 100 families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and

other developmental disabilities, as well as providing education to hundreds of

parents and professionals interested in Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal

Behavior methodologies in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.

For more info about the VB workshop, call (937) 219-9589 or contact:

DAFEAT

4307 Softwood Lane

Dayton OH 45424

Workshop1@...

http://www.dafeat.com/training.html