Workshops
Understanding and Changing Challenging Behaviors and Teaching Language Skills During Daily Activities to Children with Autism
Parents often have concerns about how to encourage their child to behave in an appropriate manner. Attempts to get a child with language delays to “go along with us,” are complicated by the fact that the child often doesn’t understand what we are trying to get them to do or not to do. Another critical factor is the fact that many of these children are not motivated by the typical praise and recognition that is often used to teach typically developing children how to behave. As a result, parents and instructors often find it a challenging task to get the child to do many of the things we need them to do. This workshop specifically addresses practical issues and will give methods for analyzing problem situations and developing strategies to solve those problems.
This workshop introduces the principles, strategies, and techniques used at Behavior Analysts, Inc. and STARS School. It is designed primarily for parents, instructional assistants, and in-home tutors, and focuses on how you can use effective behavioral language teaching techniques throughout your child’s day. This workshop is designed to identify the behavioral barriers that prevent your child from engaging in everyday family and school activities (e.g., sitting at the table and eating with others, participating in learning tasks while doing ordinary daily activities, going to the grocery store without a tantrum, toileting issues, etc.)
Specific Objectives:
- Participants will be able to identify the basic behavioral principles used to analyze both appropriate and undesired behavior.
- Participants will learn how to increase appropriate behavior by developing positive instructional control, and teaching alternative behaviors.
- Participants will learn how to observe behavior to determine why a behavior is or isn’t occurring and its probable function(s)
- Participants will learn how to structure situations so as to encourage desired behavior and avoid unwanted behavior
- Participants will learn how to use simple but effective data collection procedures
| Workshop Schedule | |
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| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration |
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Review of behavioral principles |
| 10:30 – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 noon | Defining behaviors, functions of behavior (why they do what they do) |
| 12:00 – 1:30 pm | Lunch break |
| 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Solutions to problems (pairing, instructional control, and teaching alternative behaviors) |
| 3:00 – 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15 – 4:30 pm | Data collection, case scenarios, and specific question and answer |
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