Contact
Shannon MajorosRISE for Autism
sbarrett@riseforautism.com
Mary Lynch Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D, offers a unique perspective as a parent of a child with autism, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), and an author. Since her son’s diagnosis one day before his third birthday, Mary has focused her attention and research on autism and related disorders. In 2000, she was the Founding President of the Autism Society of Berks County. She became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2003 and worked until 2010 as the Lead Behavior Analyst for the Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project, a statewide initiative assisting staff in the implementation of ABA/VB in over 100 public school autism classrooms. Through the PA VB Project as well as through her private consulting business, Mary has had the privilege of working with hundreds of children on the autism spectrum and has assisted in providing training to thousands of professionals and parents. In 2007 she published The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders and completed a Ph.D. in Leadership in 2011. For more information about Dr. Barbera or her book, go to www.BarberaBehaviorConsulting.com.
Improving Programming from Toddlers to Teens with Autism
Presenter:
Mary Lynch Barbera, PhD, RN, BCBA-D
Workshop Overview:
Children with autism, regardless of age, ability level, or setting, need effective, individualized programming in order to reach their maximum potential.
This 1-day workshop will utilize B.F. Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior to provide a framework for assessing and programming for children with autism and related disorders. Two forms of Applied Behavior Analysis: traditional discrete trial teaching and the Verbal Behavior Approach, will be compared and contrasted. Dr. Barbera will give an overview of her book: The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders and will highlight several strategies that can be used immediately to begin to assess and teach children with autism.
The VB-MAPP (Sundberg, 2008), which is a tool to measure baseline skills, to determine programming needs, and to quantify intervention gains, will be used as throughout the workshop. Programming for early and intermediate learners of different ages will also be covered. In addition to providing participants with specific ways to improve positive behaviors such as language, this workshop will also review ABA principles that should be used to decrease or eliminated problem behaviors such as hitting and crying.
Through lecture, video examples and group activities, the participants will leave with a better understanding of Applied Behavior Analysis utilizing Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior as it relates to programming for children at various points on the autism spectrum.
Who Should Attend:
Parents of children with autism as well as professionals working in homes, schools, and the community including behavior analysts, speech pathologists, educators, psychologists, and therapists.
Register Now!Each participant will receive a copy of the book, "the Verbal Behavior Approach"
Lunch is included
