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| Using Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior to Teach Language Skills During Daily Activities to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Delays |
| Saturday, May 27, 2006 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| Regency V |
| Area: VBC; Domain: Applied Research |
| CE Instructor: James W. Partington, Ph.D. |
| JAMES W. PARTINGTON (Behavior Analysts, Inc.), PAMELA G. OSNES (Behavior Analysts, Inc.) |
| Description: This workshop is designed to provide the attendees information as to how language skills (based on B. F. Skinners analysis of verbal behavior) can be taught to children in the context of ongoing, daily activities. Participants will review videotapes of such training and practice identifying specific verbal operants and other basic learner skills that could be taught during typical daily activities in the home environment. |
| Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will be able to identify how basic language skills can be taught to young children with autism in the context of on-going daily activities. 2. Participants will be able to identify examples of B. F. Skinner�s verbal operants that are included in the teaching procedures. 3. Participants will be able to describe several examples as to how parent's can maintain the motivation of young children during the language instruction. 4. Participants will be able to identify how teaching a child to mand for reinforcers results in the development of several other important learner skills. 5. Participants will be able to identify how to sequence daily events such that the child's participation in targeted language activities results in reinforcers that are typically delivered non-contingently. |
| Activities: A brief review of Skinner's analysis of verbal behavior will be provided. Participants will review videotapes of language training procedures conducted in children's homes and practice identifying specific verbal operants (mands, tacts, echoics, intraverbals) and other basic learner skills that could be taught during typical daily activities in the home environment. |
| Audience: This workshop would be appropriate for behavior analysts, teachers, speech and language pathologists, or other individuals who are responsible for implementing, developing, or monitoring educational programs for children with autism or other developmental disabilities. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |