Parents, educators, therapists and other service providers
are invited to attend a comprehensive mini-course designed to familiarize
participants with the fundamental principles and everyday application of ABA
and how to incorporate those principles across home, school and community
environments.
Module 1: Overview of ABA
- an introduction into the science of ABA,
its basic principles and how it works with learners of all ages and
developmental levels.
Module 2: Reducing Problem Behaviors - how to conduct a functional
assessment and use it as a basis for creating successful behavior intervention
plans, including basic programs addressing typical problematic behaviors.
Module 3: Effective Teaching Procedures - essential ABA
instructional techniques and methods including prompting and fading, shaping,
modeling, task analyses and chaining, graduated guidance and errorless
teaching.
Module 4: Discrete Trial Training and Verbal Behavior I - how to conduct a
discrete trial in both the natural and more structured teaching environments;
introduction to verbal behavior and how to teach vocal and non-vocal learners
to communicate.
Module 5: Verbal Behavior II and Data Collection - teaching intermediate
and advanced communication skills; ways to structure and organize programs and
materials, and how to take effective data.
Tract
1 - Tuesday Evenings - July 6, 13, 20, 27 and August 3 - 6
to 9 pm
Tract
2 - Friday Mornings - July 9. 16, 23, 30
and August 6 - 9 am to 12 pm
NTSTrainingCenter
35 E
Grassy Sprain Road, Suite 100
Yonkers, NY
Limited
to 25 Participants per Tract
Participants
must attend all five modules in order to receive a certificate of
completion