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| Teaching Conversational Skills to Children With Autism |
| Saturday, May 23, 2009 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| North 221 AB |
| Area: VBC/AUT; Domain: Applied Behavior Analysis |
| CE Instructor: Richard M. Foxx, PH.D. |
| CHERISH TWIGG (Establishing Operations, Inc.), Holly R. Kibbe (Establishing Operations, Inc.) |
| Description: This workshop is designed to teach participants the pre-requisite and component skills necessary for teaching learner initiated multiple exchange conversation around a motivating topic. Conversation components will be discussed specific to the verbal operants and illustrated using videotaped examples of children with autism. A strong emphasis will be placed on using the motivating operation and outlining specific prompt fading techniques to teach each objective. The workshop will further teach participants how to bring these components together to teach conversation which is natural and occurring under the control of socially mediated positive reinforcement. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the workshop participants will be able to:
Identify and teach mands for attention
Identify and teach mands for information
Identify and teach novel answers to questions (intraverbals)
Combine skills to teach reciprocal conversation |
| Activities: Participants will be required to:
Give examples of ways to contrive motivation for mands for information
Give examples for each step of prompt fading for teaching novel intraverbals
Give examples of how to use a mand for information or attention to start and maintain a conversation |
| Audience: The recommended target audience for this workshop is behavior analysts currently working with children with autism. It is also recommended that participants have experience teaching verbal behavior to these children. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |