Parents Of Autistic Children - Northern Virginia (POAC-NoVA) workshop on
"TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR IN THE INTENSIVE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT" by Holly
Kibbe, MS, BCABA & Cherish Twigg, MS, BCBA at the Marymount University,
Ballston Conference Center, 1000 North Glebe Road, Arlington, VA on August
15-16 from 9am-5pm (each day). The suggested audience is school system
personnel, parents, and other professionals. The cost is $395. Go to
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POAC-NoVA
presents
Teaching Verbal Behavior in the Intensive Teaching
Environment
A Two-day Workshop Conducted by:
Holly Kibbe, BCABA & Cherish Twigg, BCBA
Overview
This 2-day workshop conducted by Holly Kibbe, MS, BCABA and Cherish Twigg,
MS, BCABA, provides
consultants, therapists, other professionals and parents (who take an active
role in their child's language program)
with guided practice in implementing the methods described in introductory
verbal behavior workshops. This
hands-on workshop is devoted to teaching entirely in the intensive teaching
environment. The participants will
spend most of their time practicing the methods of effective instruction.
Participants will receive precise feedback on
their teaching methods.
The participants will be provided supervised practice in the areas of:
* Establishing instructional control with an unwilling learner;
* Manipulating motivating operations (MO) during teaching opportunities to
maintain learner attention;
* How to develop an intensive teaching program using the ABLLS (Assessment
of Basic Language and
Learning Skills, Drs. Partington and Sundberg);
* Video examples and guided instruction to teach many objectives indicated
in the ABLLS;
* Teaching language in the intensive teaching environment to non vocal
children using sign language;
* Teaching early to advanced receptive skills;
* Teaching early to advanced motor imitation skills;
* Teaching early to advanced tacting skills;
* Teaching early to advanced intraverbal skills;
* Organizing your program materials and data recording methods, including
hands on practice for data
recording.
Prerequisites: It is strongly recommended that all participants have
attended some type of introductory
workshop on verbal behavior and have at least some experience teaching
children with autism within an intensive
teaching program. Special requests to attend this workshop without prior
intro workshop attendance must be
submitted and approved prior to registration. Participants should bring an
ABLLS manual with them to the course.
Location: Marymount University Dates: August 15 & 16, 2006 Time:
9:00am-5:00pm
Ballston Conference Ctr (Check-in starts at 8:30am on August 15th)
1000 N. Glebe Road
Arlington, VA 22201
Cost: $395/person with continental breakfast and lunch included
(Please make checks payable to POAC-NoVA)
To register please mail the following information to:
POAC-NoVA
P.O. Box 1839
Vienna, VA 22183
Either enclose the workshop fee (checks or purchase orders only) with the
registration form or pay the workshop fee
online at
www.poac-nova.org <http://www.poac-nova.org>
Name: ____________________________ (Please provide us the best way to
contact you in case of an emergency change)
Preferred Email: _____________________ Alternate Email:
___________________________
Address: ________________________ City: _____________ State: ____ Zip:
__________
Work Phone: _____________ Evening Phone: _____________ Cell Phone:
______________
I attended an intro to VB workshop at ______________ taught by
____________________________(required)
Please complete one application per attendee. Registration is on a first
come first serve basis. Audio taping is
allowed-please refrain from video taping.
For questions, please either send email to workshops@...
<mailto:workshops@...> or call 703-391-2251. Refunds will only be
given for cancellations received 10 days prior to workshop date.


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