TEACHING VERBAL BEHAVIOR IN THE INTENSIVE TEACHING ENVIRONMENT
Establishing Operations, Inc.
Holly Kibbe, MS, BCBA® & Cherish Twigg, MS, BCBA®
www.establishingoperationsinc.com

When: November 13 & 14, 2007
Where: The ARC of Montgomery County
11600 Nebel Street
Rockville, MD 20852-2554
This TWO-day workshop conducted by Holly Kibbe, MS, BCBA® and Cherish
Twigg, MS, BCBA®, provides consultants, therapists other
professionals and parents (who serve as their child's primary
therapist) with guided practice in implementing the methods described
in Introductory Verbal Behavior Workshops. This two day workshop is
devoted entirely to teaching in the Intensive Teaching Environment
(ITT). The participants will spend much of their time practicing the
methods of effective instruction as demonstrated in videotape
illustrations during the workshop. Participants will receive precise
feedback on their teaching methods. This workshop will address the
areas of:
Establishing instructional control with an unwilling learner;
Manipulating motivating operations (MO) during teaching opportunities
to maintain learner attention;
Using the ABLLS to develop an intensive teaching program;
Video examples and guided instruction to teach objectives indicated
in the ABLLS;
Teaching early to advanced receptive, visual performance, motor
imitation, tacting and intraverbal skills;
Teaching social skills to early through advanced learners;
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 a Verbal Behavior Introductory Workshop and have at least
some experience teaching children with autism within a verbal
behavior program.
Required Materials: Participants should bring an ABLLS or ABLLS-R
manual with them to the course.

Registration Fees: Early Bird Registration $390.oo if received prior
to August 1, 2007; Regular Registration: $425.00 if received after
August 1, 2007
~ Register Early ~ Limited enrollment ~
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