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| Assessing and Teaching Functional Skills to Children With Autism in Home, School, and Community Settings |
| Saturday, May 28, 2016 |
| 4:00 PM–7:00 PM |
| Columbus Hall IJ, Hyatt Regency, Gold East |
| Area: AUT/DDA; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: James W. Partington, Ph.D. |
| JAMES W. PARTINGTON (Behavior Analysts, Inc.) |
| Description: This workshop will describe the assessment and teaching of functional skills in individuals with autism. Functional skills will be discussed in terms of how they differ from basic conceptual skills on several levels that include when, where, and why functional skills are demonstrated, as well as the immediate benefit to the child. Children with autism require learning sequences and teaching curricula in various “everyday” aspects of their lives. These useful and necessary functional life skills are naturally clustered into: skills used at school, in the community, at home, and skills that impact all aspects of life. Within these broad skill cluster areas, 48 specific skill groupings have been identified. This workshop will present information on the assessment of these specific skill groupings. The results of the assessment of functional skills will be useful for understanding which skills are required to enable independence within any given skill area. Next, using the assessment results to establish teaching sequences for functional learning programs will be discussed. Finally, specific strategies for teaching certain functional skills will be taught. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the workshop, the participant will be able to: (1) identify the differences between functional and basic/conceptual skills; (2) identify 6 broad skill clusters of functional skills; (3) identify and assess 48 specific skill groupings of functional skills; (4) choose initial instructional skills for teaching functional skills; (5) identify methods to teach functional skills in various settings; (6) identify methods to measure and track progress of functional skills from initial assessment and throughout the teaching process. |
| Activities: Workshop activities will include lecture, video review of teaching methods, handouts, and group discussions |
| Audience: Behavior analysts who work with individuals with autism or other developmental delays. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |