N. Texas Self Help Workshop in June

[Guest guest]

Saturday, JUNE 30, 2007

Presented by FEAT NT in North Texas

Location: FEAT NT

4239 Road to the Mall

North Richland Hills, Texas 76180

8:30 Registration

9:00 Workshop Begins

12:00 to 1:00 Bring a sack lunch

3:00 Workshop Ends

Workshop fee: $15.00

Location to be announced soon.

Children with autism often do not gain independent self-help skills unless those

skills are directly taught. This workshop provides parents, therapists,

caregivers and educators behaviorally-based methods for teaching these skills.

Attendees of the workshop will learn:

A complete program, based on behavior principles, for teaching independent

toileting to children with special needs who may not or have not responded to

more traditional methods.

How to teach pill swallowing.

To understand reinforcement, extinction, differential reinforcement, prompting,

chaining, shaping and task analysis, and how to apply them when teaching

specific self-help skills.

How to collect data when teaching self-help skills.

Presenter Bio: Gail Wayman, M.Ed., BCBA is a Board Certified Behavior Behavior

Analyst (BCBA) and a certified Special Education Teacher who has worked with

children with special needs, including those with Autism Spectrum

Disorders(ASD), for more than ten years. She has worked in public schools as a

Special Education Teacher, Behavior Specialist, and In-Home Trainer, and, more

recently, has consulted for school districts, private and public service

providers, and families implementing in-home ABA programs in the Dallas/Ft.

Worth metroplex as an associate of Kelle Wood, M.Ed., BCBA. Ms. Wayman has

provided various workshops and training for organizations in the D/FW area

including North Texas Autism Education Center, Autism Treatment Center and FEAT

North Texas.