Autism Education and Support Services is offering Intensive Training in Missouri, Arkansas, and Alabama for the 2007-2008 School Year

Little Rock, Arkansas
"Teaching Moderate to Low Functioning Students with Developmental Disabilities"
November 15th and 16th, 2007

"Intensive Behavior Intervention"
January 24th and 25th, 2007

 

Birmingham, Alabama
"Intensive Behavior Intervention"
February 21st and 22nd, 2007
 

St. Peters, Missouri
"Teaching Moderate to Low Functioning Students with Developmental Disabilities"
February 7th and 8th, 2007

 Workshop Curriculum
 

Working with Moderate to Low Functioning Students with Developmental Disabilities

This workshop will teach

• Differential Diagnosis for Mental Retardation, Down’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, and others Developmental Disabilities
• Intensive Behavior Intervention
• Effective Instructional Methodology for Teaching Students
• Using Prompting and Fading to Teach Independent Skills
• Teaching Spontaneous Communication
• Using a Functional Curriculum
• Pre-Vocational and Job Skills
• Social Skills Instruction

Understanding Autism and Social Skills Instruction

This workshop is an introduction to Autism .  In the morning participants will learn the essential features of Autism including the medical and educational definition. Each of the 4 areas of disturbance used to obtain a educational diagnosis of Autism will be discussed at length including sensory integration. The afternoon will show participants how to teach social skills to students with Autism including  play skills, and “Circle of Friends”

Intensive Behavior Intervention

This workshop prepares participants to understand functional assessment as well as evaluation tools to complete an assessment and/or analysis.  It also teaches participants to complete the analysis as part of a functional assessment setting up specific conditions and testing hypotheses. The workshop then teaches over 20 different behavior strategies to use with students who have challenging behaviors focusing on preventative interventions. Strategies include visual supports, behavior mapping, language mapping, differential reinforcement, token economies, conditioned reinforcement and many more. This workshop provides various hands-on activities throughout the day. In addition, various antecedent and consequence strategies are also taught including DRA, DRO, DRL, extinction, response cost procedures, noncontingent escape and exclusionary time out.  Strategies will be discussed to help work with the “hardest of the hardest” kids. 

Discrete Trail Teaching for The Classroom

This workshop is designed for staff working with students primarily with autism or other developmental disabilities. It will include specific strategies to teach students with Autism using discrete trial teaching in the classroom.  Terminology, definitions, use of curriculum guides, video demonstration, comparison of methodology and hands-on activities are all included.  Participants will also learn data collection procedures and will write child specific programs.  This workshop includes observation and assessment of participants’ techniques to prepare them for implementation.

Asperger’s Syndrome and the Explosive Child

This workshop will teach participants an understanding of Asperger’s Syndrome, defining characteristics and examples to aid in diagnosis.  Teaching strategies will be discussed as well.  In the afternoon participants will learn how to implement the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach from Dr. Greene’s book, “The Explosive Child”.  This is a must for those working with individuals with Asperger’s who have challenging behaviors.