Dr. Alan Schnee and Ms. Melconian/Advanced programming April 3

March 22, 2006

We are happy to announce we will be presenting our workshop again on

April 3rd in Paramus NJ

A workshop presented by Dr. Alan Schnee and Ms. Melconian

Thinking about Conversing/Conversing about Thinking

Monday April 3rd

7:00pm

Crowne Plaza Paramus Park (201-262-6900)

601 From Road

Paramus, NJ

Please register by writing to us at

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Fee: $10 (at the door)

Abstract:

A percentage of children will make significant progress in ABA-based

intervention but nonetheless continue to struggle in the areas of

abstract inferential language. A careful evaluation reveals significant

and predictable areas of difficulty related to advanced prepositional

use (multiple prepositions, prepositional phrases etc), advanced pronoun

use (pronoun transformations, diexic uses of pronouns) and advanced

descriptive language (describing `who did what to whom' or

answering a simple question such as `what happened?) among others.

These difficulties (and others) effect all aspects of higher order

social, academic and cognitive functioning so that children can't

converse fluently or flexibly, can't reason through simple problems

of causality or inference, show impaired skills in basic explanatory

language (can't respond to novel `how' and `why'

questions) and in general terms, these students can't seem to

" get the big picture " or " can't read between the

lines " ....

Dr. Schnee and Ms. Melconian will discuss these issues and present a

treatment model which systematically organizes programming to address

these concerns. The model is designed to help students integrate the

vast bits of information acquired during their programming so that new

relations emerge between these pieces of information. Through these new

relations `meaning' emerges and our students become fluent

conversationalists, speculators, and good perspective takers (good at

Theory of Mind)….wherein… we begin to see students achieving

their suspected potentials.

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