Teaching Language To Children With Autism &/Or Developmental Disorders
Teaching Language To Children With Autism &/Or Developmental Disorders
Dates: May 18-20, 2018
Venue: R.E.A.C.H. Inc., 2nd Flr., Uniwide Sales Metro Mall,#43 Real St. Pamplona, Las Piñas City
Overview: This workshop is designed to provide an overview of B.F. Skinner’s analysis of language to parents, educators, and other practitioners. A review of the primary verbal operant will be provided along with a video-taped review of teaching methods typically used to teach those skills. Some children with ASD may not talk at all while others may know words but not use them very often. There are varieties of research-proven techniques that can help teach students to speak more and to expand on the words they are using. Participants will learn how to assess a child’s language abilities, and how to implement several important intervention strategies. A major emphasis will be placed on identifying methods to enhance and utilize motivational variables (establishing operations) to teach language in both structured teaching sessions and in daily activities. Techniques for coordinating the on-going decision making necessary for effective language intervention and methods of data collection and techniques of tracking the acquisition of the skills will be presented.
Objectives: At the end of the three day seminar-workshop, the participants will be able to:- Identify examples of B.F. Skinner’s verbal operants;
- Describe how curricular variables affect the motivation of young children with autism and other developmental disorders;
- How teaching a child to mand for reinforcers results in the development of several other important learner skills;
- Identify methods for developing and maintaining the motivation of young children with autism and other developmental disorders;
- Conduct an initial behavioral language assessment such as to determine the most appropriate initial language intervention for young children with language delay;
- Identify the criteria for selection of the initial words to teach young children who do not have expressive language skills;
- Identify the critical elements of discrete trials instruction;
- Explain how to perform a correction procedure in situations in which the student provides an incorrect response;
- Explain how to develop intraverbal skills (ability to talk about people, items, places, events and experiences);
- Identify how the critical elements of discrete trial instruction can be implemented within the child’s typical daily events.
- School administrators/Principals
- Regular and SPED teachers
- Curriculum Developers Guidance Counselors
- Social and Health workers
- Professionals from related disciplines (e.g., Psychologists, Occupational, Speech-Language, Physical Therapists, ABA specialist, etc.)
- College Administrators, College Professors/ Instructors, College/MA/Ph.D. Students