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Applied Behavior Analysis Training Program

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.

 

Monday Mornings – October 17, 24, 31 and November 7, 14 – 9:30 am to 12:30 pm



NTS Training Center

35 E Grassy Sprain Road, Suite 100

Yonkers, NY

 

Limited to 20 Participants per Tract

Participants must attend all five modules in order to receive a certificate of completion

 

Course Fee: Members - $50 / Non-members - $150

Attendance must be reserved in advance

Need-based scholarships available


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