#3 DEVELOPING AN EFFECTIVE ABA CLASSROOM: Assessment, Teaching, and Organizational Strategies

Prerequisite- Participants MUST have an understanding of the pairing with reinforcement process, manding procedures for vocal and non-vocal students, and a familiarity with the verbal operants (covered in workshop #2). This two-day workshop is designed to prepare staff, related personnel, and parents to teach language and academic readiness skills to students with autism and other developmental disabilities. This hands-on experience places a heavy emphasis on developing the repertoires needed to assess language skills based on B. F. Skinners behavioral classifications of language, selecting appropriate IEP goals, and teaching skills using research-based procedures. Videotaped examples, modeling, and opportunities to practice will help attendees demonstrate competency. It is highly recommended that a completed VB-MAPP protocol be brought to the training. Specifically, participants will: Distinguish between discrete trial training (DTT) and natural environment teaching (NET) Identify developmentally appropriate skills to be targeted in the natural environment when students are grouped heterogeneously Capture or contrive motivation when working with several students within the context of a single activity that is reinforcing to all students Write NET lesson plans that incorporate B.F. Skinners behavioral classifications of language, as well as other readiness and academic skills Learn strategies for conducting assessments using tools that incorporate B.F. Skinners analysis of verbal behavior Be given guidelines for interpreting the results of the assessment and then generate developmentally appropriate IEP goals based upon the scores Practice intensive teaching/discrete trial training using research-based teaching procedures Become familiar with various data collection procedures and organizational strategies for materials

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