Communication

El Programa de equilibrio para conductas problemáticas emergentes enseña las habilidades de comunicación, tolerancia y cooperación de manera compasiva y empática a niños pequeños con autismo. La base del programa comienza con encontrar lo que alegra al niño, lo que lo hace feliz, relajado y comprometido. Discutimos el programa Balance, cómo puede ser la implementación y la colaboración entre la escuela y el hogar, y los éxitos y dificultades a lo largo del camino. Compartiremos conocimientos y experiencias de primera mano del maestro de Educación Especial y de los padres de un estudiante involucrado en el programa.

This session will talk about tools and strategies to support early communication skills, including how to begin using AAC (augmentative/alternative communication).

This presentation will cover a series of studies examining procedures to teach mands for information, intraverbals to report past behaviors, and tacts of noun-verb combinations to non-vocal children with autism. Considerations and complications when teaching these skills using high-tech SGDs will be discussed.

Critical mass, a term discussed in Excelling with Autism: Obtaining Critical Mass Using Deliberate Practice, explains the formula needed to achieve spontaneous generalization. This webinar will provide a variety of ways and strategies to achieve spontaneous generalization in the areas of conversation, problem solving, and emotional understanding.

Working as a part of a multi-disciplinary team for students with communication needs involves integrating varying perspectives of language development. Learn about collaboration bias and strategies for effective interprofessional practice, as well as strategies to support communication development in young children with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities. Assess your own collaboration bias and identify three ways to better collaborate with colleagues.

Behavior and communication are two aspects of development that are closely associated. Often the roles of speech-language pathologist and behavior specialist overlap. The goal of this presentation is to outline how speech-language pathologists and behavior analyst’s responsibilities align with a focus on collaborative practices. An autism spectrum disorder (ASD) requires transdisciplinary practice to support individuals to succeed across settings, from home to school, and into their communities.

Part 1 of this 2-part series will provide an overview of why manding (AKA requesting) is a vital skill. It will help participants understand how to utilize student motiviation and how to determine individualized goals for manding. This presentation will describe how to use errorless teaching and error correction with mands.

Learn to identify obtainable, functional manding (AKA: requesting) goals for individual students. Understand how to develop Cold Probe and Skill Tracking Sheets with individualized mastered, current, and future mands (AKA: requests), and how to track manding progress using frequency and acquisition data and graphs.

This webinar will introduce participants to The AFLS Assessment and Curriculum Guides as an extension to a verbal behavior program. Participants will gain the knowledge and tools to track a learner’s functional living skills and plan an individual intervention program to increase independence.

During this webinar the learner will be introduced to a brief history of ABA and early autism treatments. The learner will be introduced to the background and development of pivotal response treatment and to the core PRT components of family involvement, treatment in the natural environment and treatment on pivotal areas.

During this webinar the learner will be introduced the use of motivational procedures to teach academic skills. The learner will be provided a review of research studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of motivational procedures for teaching academics and will introduced to strategies the include motivational components to teach academic skills for a variety of learners.

This presentation will provide an overview of the areas assessed on the VB-MAPP including a brief overview of the verbal operants. It will review the components of the VB-MAPP manual and test protocol, including a review of scoring procedures. The presentation will review the types of assessment methods used on the VB-MAPP and helpful steps to take before administering the VB-MAPP. Finally, participants will learn how to interpret results and use them for program development.

This webinar will focus on using the information from the ABLLS-R to create a verbal behavior program. This information will review the Behavior Language Assessment tool and its use in getting a verbal behavior program started prior to the complete administration of the ABLLS-R.

The 1st webinar in this series will provide an overview of the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills – Revised (ABLLS-R) protocol. The overview will include the steps to administer and score this tool.

Part 1 of this 2-part series will help participants understand and define verbal behavior. The presenters will review the behavioral teaching components of reinforcement, pairing, discrete trial teaching, use of prompts and prompt fading, and error correction procedures.

Part 2 of this 2-part series will provide information on how to use verbal behavior strategies to teach a variety of skills, in a variety of settings. Curriculum programs such as the ABLLS-R, VB-MAPP and AFLS will be examined as resources for identifying skills to teach.

Social skills instruction should be a critical part of EACH and EVERY day for students with ASD. Part 1 of this 3-part series will discuss how curriculum and activities have to be planned and implemented with as much consideration, if not more than math, literacy and every other area.

In part 2 of this 3-part series, participants will determine the needs of their students by utilizing the appropriate social skills assessment tools. The participants will be able to describe strengths and needs of students with emerging social communication skills. The participants will be able to explain the impact that social skills have on student access to relationships, education, different environments and quality of life. Participants will be able to design individualized social skills instruction across all environments.

Part 3 of this 3-part series will discuss how to determine the needs of their students by utilizing the appropriate social skills assessment tools, describe strengths and needs of students with conversational social communication challenges, explain the impact that social skills have on student access to relationships, education, different environments and quality of life, and design individualized social skills instruction across all environments.