Winter Park: Free Parent Training Series

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[AutismRecoveryNetwork] Free Parent Training Series

We have been fortunate to work with so many wonderful children and their families. Because we understand that parents are important partners in helping their children reach their full potential, we have put together a training series for parents to acquire a better understanding of how to work with their children in every day situations to maximize skill building and promote generalization. Instruction will be based on principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and provided by our behavior analysts.

All the training sessions are free and open to parents or anyone who is interested. The training sessions will be held on the 3rd Monday evenings of every month from 6:30-8:00. The training sessions will run for 1 hour from 6:30 to 7:30. 7:30-8:00 will be for questions and answers and for parents to network with each other. Unfortunately we are unable to provide childcare. Parents are welcome to give us feedback regarding topics you are interested in. Please email your feedback to jing@....

Registration is required for each of the training sessions. The session may be cancelled if less than 5 people have registered 2 days prior to the training. Please email lisa@... or call our office at to register for any of the training sessions you are interested in attending

Location: Interventions Unlimited, Inc. Office

Lakeview Office Park Conference Room

1265 S. Semoran Blvd, Suite 1205

Winter Park, FL 32792

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Training Schedule and Topics

(The schedule is also on our website at www.interventionsunlimited.com)

1-16-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

ABCs of Behaviors

This presentation will help parents understand why children engage in certain behaviors. Parents will learn how to analyze their child’s behaviors by identifying the triggers, the behavior itself and the consequences. This analysis helps parents teach new skills and prevent problem behaviors.

2-20-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

How to Get Your Child to Follow Directions

Why won’t my child follow directions? Parents often get frustrated and angry when their child won’t listen. This presentation will explain why children won’t follow directions and teach parents how to give directions that are easy to follow, and what to do when a child does or does not follow a direction.

3-30-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

How to Change Behaviors Positively

Parents will learn the effective use of positive reinforcement to increase appropriate behaviors.

4-17-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Planning for Success

Parents will learn how to structure the environment to help their child engage in positive behaviors and to prevent negative behaviors. Parents will practice how to set rules and expectations, set up appropriate activities and how to model and reinforce positive behaviors.

5-15-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Responding to Negative Behaviors (1)

Parents will learn effective ways to respond to their child’s negative behaviors such as using planned ignoring, redirection, manual guidance, and how to deal with the outbursts and tantrums the child engages in when you ignore the behaviors.

6-19-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Responding to Negative Behaviors (2)

Parents will learn the use of meaningful consequences to decrease negative behaviors, such as using time out or taking away reinforcers.

7-17-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Teaching Your Child New Skills Every Day

Parents will learn how to utilize every day situations as teaching opportunities to teach their child new skills. The presenter will introduce teaching strategies such as breaking a complex skill into small steps, giving assistance while teaching, and fading assistance as your child becomes more independent.

8-21-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Introduction to Verbal Behavior

This presentation will give an overview of using a behavioral approach to teach language and communication to children with developmental and language delays.

9-18-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Teaching Play and Social Skills

This presentation will focus on teaching parents to encourage and facilitate play and social interactions between their child, siblings and other peers.

10-16-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

Toilet Training

Parents will learn proven methods to toilet train their child and discuss problems they may encounter during the toilet training process.

11-20-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

How Can My Child Eat Better

The presentation will focus on the eating issues many parents are facing with their child, such as picky eater, food refusal, and problem behaviors during eating. Parents will learn some strategies to use to help their child eat more food items or be more cooperative during meal times.

12-18-06 6:30-8:00 P.M.

About Sleeping

This presentation will discuss some of the sleeping difficulty children usually have and offer strategies to help your child sleep better.