Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project
Autism Initiative PaTTAN Autism Initiative ABA Supports: Intensive Skill Training October 18-20, 2011 – PaTTAN Pittsburgh April 3-5, 2012 – PaTTAN King of Prussia Workshop Description: This session will provide intensive training and analogue guided practice in teaching skills for applied behavior analytic interventions incorporating an analysis of verbal behavior. It will review protocols established within the PaTTAN Autism Initiative ABA Supports. Focus will be on skills related to teaching students with autism and related developmental disorders. The three day training will involve participants demonstrating skills related to identifying the verbal operants and other ABA concepts, developing classroom schedules and card sort systems for teaching, demonstrating procedures for intensive teaching (discrete trial instruction) and basic mand training skills. The session will include a brief overview of the VB-MAPP assessment tool and deriving student programs based on the assessment outcomes. Establishing instructional control and reducing problem behavior will also be discussed. Participants will be required to demonstrate acquisition of conceptual skills through brief oral and written assessments, participate in active responding and competency check skill demonstration of various teaching protocols. Presenters: Mike Miklos: Amiris DiPuglia: Various consultants from PaTTAN Autism Initiative Audience: Classroom teachers, para-educators, administrators and support staff for teams serving students with autism. Learner Outcomes: 1. Participants will name verbal operants observed in a teaching session at a rate of at least 20 per minute during a one minute timing. 2. Participants will pass a brief written and oral competency exam on basic behavioral concepts. 3. Participants will demonstrate use of a card sort system to guide intensive teaching procedures. 4. Participants will state basic procedures to establish instructional control. 5. Participant teams will review a classroom schedule that includes dense schedule of instruction for critical competencies. 6. Participants will demonstrate the teaching protocol for basic intensive teaching of verbal operants including fast pace presentation of trials, mixed and varied 1
instruction, effective use of variable ratio schedule of reinforcement, and fluent student responding. 7. Participants will accurately state and demonstrate errorless teaching procedures for intensive teaching protocol. 8. Participants will accurately state and demonstrate error correction procedures for intensive teaching protocol. 9. Participants will demonstrate use of appropriate prompt procedures. 10. Participants will demonstrate process of presenting mand trials including mand transfer trials and mand error correction procedures. 11. Participants will identify and complete basic data collection procedures including cold probe for intensive teaching targets, mand cold probe procedures, and mand frequency. 12. Participants will develop example classroom schedules that provide adequate allotment of instructional responding in relation to critical verbal skills.
Agenda Agenda October 18, 2011 and April 3, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Pretest, ABA and Autism treatments, implementation fidelity, and overview of Intensive teaching components 9:15-10:15 am Verbal operants and fluency timing 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Shaping, errorless procedures 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm Card sort system 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Error correction procedures Agenda October 19, 2011 and April 4, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Troubleshooting error patterns 9:15-10:15 am Instructional Control and schedules of reinforcement 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Instructional control and reinforcement 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm VB-MAPP, Classroom Organization 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Scheduling of instruction, program books and data systems Agenda October 20, 2011 and April 5, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Mand training and motivation 9:15-10:15 am Mand basic training procedures and mand transfer trials 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Mand error correction and mand data systems 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm Putting it all together; content review in relation to instructional protocols 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Verbal operants timing, errorless and error correction skill checks, intensive teaching demonstrations, oral checkout, posttest 2
Registration Information: No registration fee will be charged for this event. For content information, contact Mike Miklos at [email protected] or 800-360-7282 ext. 3109, For registration information, contact Sue Cartwright at [email protected] or 800-360-7282 ext. 3431.
Special Needs: Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this training. Contact: Sue Cartwright, 800-360-7282, ext. 3431, or [email protected] Credits:
This course if offered for 1.8 ASHA CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area).
Individuals attending this event must arrive on time and stay the duration of the event in order to receive Act 48 Professional Education hours. Requests for exceptions are to be brought to the attention of the individual’s Superintendent or IU Director prior to the event. [18] Act 48 hours are offered for this event.
PaTTAN is approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board to offer continuing education for certified behavior analysts. PaTTAN maintains responsibility for the programs(s). [20 ] CEs are offered for this event.
PaTTAN is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. PaTTAN maintains responsibility for the program(s). [ 20 ] CEs are offered for this event.
Participants must attend all 3 days to receive credit.
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instruction, effective use of variable ratio schedule of reinforcement, and fluent student responding. 7. Participants will accurately state and demonstrate errorless teaching procedures for intensive teaching protocol. 8. Participants will accurately state and demonstrate error correction procedures for intensive teaching protocol. 9. Participants will demonstrate use of appropriate prompt procedures. 10. Participants will demonstrate process of presenting mand trials including mand transfer trials and mand error correction procedures. 11. Participants will identify and complete basic data collection procedures including cold probe for intensive teaching targets, mand cold probe procedures, and mand frequency. 12. Participants will develop example classroom schedules that provide adequate allotment of instructional responding in relation to critical verbal skills.
Agenda Agenda October 18, 2011 and April 3, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Pretest, ABA and Autism treatments, implementation fidelity, and overview of Intensive teaching components 9:15-10:15 am Verbal operants and fluency timing 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Shaping, errorless procedures 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm Card sort system 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Error correction procedures Agenda October 19, 2011 and April 4, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Troubleshooting error patterns 9:15-10:15 am Instructional Control and schedules of reinforcement 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Instructional control and reinforcement 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm VB-MAPP, Classroom Organization 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Scheduling of instruction, program books and data systems Agenda October 20, 2011 and April 5, 2012 8:30-9:15 am Mand training and motivation 9:15-10:15 am Mand basic training procedures and mand transfer trials 10:15-10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Mand error correction and mand data systems 12:00 – 12:45 pm Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm Putting it all together; content review in relation to instructional protocols 2:00-2:15 pm Break 2:15-4:00 pm Verbal operants timing, errorless and error correction skill checks, intensive teaching demonstrations, oral checkout, posttest 2
Registration Information: No registration fee will be charged for this event. For content information, contact Mike Miklos at [email protected] or 800-360-7282 ext. 3109, For registration information, contact Sue Cartwright at [email protected] or 800-360-7282 ext. 3431.
Special Needs: Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate individuals who have special needs as addressed by the Americans with Disabilities Act and who need assistance at this training. Contact: Sue Cartwright, 800-360-7282, ext. 3431, or [email protected] Credits:
This course if offered for 1.8 ASHA CEUs (Advanced level, Professional area).
Individuals attending this event must arrive on time and stay the duration of the event in order to receive Act 48 Professional Education hours. Requests for exceptions are to be brought to the attention of the individual’s Superintendent or IU Director prior to the event. [18] Act 48 hours are offered for this event.
PaTTAN is approved by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board to offer continuing education for certified behavior analysts. PaTTAN maintains responsibility for the programs(s). [20 ] CEs are offered for this event.
PaTTAN is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer continuing education for psychologists. PaTTAN maintains responsibility for the program(s). [ 20 ] CEs are offered for this event.
Participants must attend all 3 days to receive credit.
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