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| Toilet Training for ASD Children and Encopretic Children: Data based Bio Behavioral Intervention |
| Friday, May 23, 2008 |
| 2:00 PM–5:00 PM |
| 4F |
| Area: AUT; Domain: Applied Research |
| CE Instructor: Michael Ben-Zvi, M.A. |
| MICHAEL BEN-ZVI (Private Practice) |
| Description: While early intensive interventions are widely used to improve communicative, cognitive and other skills, toilet training for autistic children is still a challenge to behavior analysis. Early achievement of independent urination and defecation is rare, and failure is socially inhibiting and a parental burden. Encopresis* is a very disturbing illness, not so rare with normal children. The combination of those two is even worse to treat. The use of Reflexes and Respondent conditioning (in combination with operant conditioning) is needed for complex behaviors that are reflexive in origin and only partly Operant. The purpose of this workshop is to address that need, especially for the acquiring of proper bowl movement on toilet, both for Encopretic and Autistic children. The workshop will cover the theoretical assumptions behind the interventions, the protocol of treatment and its accommodations to each child. Ethical considerations, Data collection and decision making in the course of intervention will be discussed. Case studies will be presented, and the toilet training of urination will be addressed too. |
| Learning Objectives: At the completion of the workshops, participant will be able to: .Know and understand the protocol of interventions for both target behaviors .Explain the intervention to parents of non trained child .Gather the required data for decision making before and through the intervention .Detect the relevant symptom of Encopresis and apply the proper intervention. .Address ethical considerations and rejections. .Support parents through implementation of the interventions. |
| Activities: Activities will include presentation of both rational and practical issues, analyzing data records, practicing the collection of data on relevant Data sheets, and discussion of questions. |
| Audience: Behavior analysts, Consultants and program managers of interventions with autistic population, clinicians who address Encopresis, Parent of Encopretic and autistic children. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |