Teaching verbal behavior in the NET workshop - Lansdale, PA

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DATES:  Sept. 1 -2, 2005

LOCATION:  Central Schwenkfelder Church, Lansdale, PA

COST:  $425.00 per person

Don't miss this NEW two day workshop conducted by Holly Kibbe, M.S., BCABA

and Cherish Twigg, M. S., BCABA.  It provides consultants, therapists, and

parents

with instruction regarding how to teach verbal behavior in the natural

environment.  Participants learn how to develop natural environment teaching

programs for each learner level.  Videotaped illustrations are shown, &

participants spend most of their

time viewing videos and learning to set up NET verbal behavior programs

across all three learner levels.

Participants are required to have attended an intro to Verbal Behavior

workshop and to have some experience teaching children with autism.   

Introduction to Verbal Behavior (or equivalent), or to have previously

attended the

therapist workshop provided by Mrs. Kibbe and Mrs. Twigg.  Participants are

asked to bring a completed ABLLS manual with them to the workshop,

instruction

will be provided in the following areas:

· Using the ABLLS to develop a natural environment teaching program for early

to advanced learners;

· Guided instruction and video examples of NET objectives indicated in the

ABLLS;

· Lesson Plan Development for early to advanced learners with hands on

practice and guided feedback at each learner level;

· Teaching the early learner to request items and activities;

· Manipulating motivating operations (MO's) to compete with the value of self

stimulatory behavior when teaching the mand;

· Teaching non vocal early learners to communicate using sign language;

· Teaching vocal sounds to non-vocal learners;

· Transitioning from sign language to vocal verbal behavior;

· Data Collection in the natural environment across all learner levels;

· Teaching the receptive, tacting, intraverbal and motor imitation

repertoires in the NET for early to advanced learners;

· Teaching intermediate learners to mand using sentences, actions, missing

items, requesting help, " yes " and " no " & others;

· Generalizing skills taught in the intensive teaching setting into the

natural environment;

· Teaching advanced learners to request information using WH questions;

· Teaching the advanced learner to answer novel WH questions and recall past

events;

· Teaching the mand (request) for attention;

· Teaching the intermediate to advanced learner to follow multiple step

receptive instructions;

· Teaching the advanced learner to request items with prepositions,

adjectives and pronouns;

· Teaching reciprocal conversation for the advanced learner;

· Teaching children of all learner levels to engage in independent play with

socially appropriate toys;

· Teaching social skills for the early to advanced learner.

To register, please email Amy McGinnis at Amy4382@....  Seats are limited

to only 30 participants!!