Knospe - ABA is offering a series of workshops designed to teach parents and professionals about the Verbal Behavior Approach to Applied Behavior Analysis. These workshops are scheduled on an "as needed" basis. If you are interested in attending a workshop, contact us with the number of spots you want to reserve and we will help find a workshop date and location that works for you.
Upcoming Dates and Locations:
| ABA/VB Workshop #2 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
October 6th - 7th, 2008 |
| ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Dallas, Texas, USA |
October 8th - 9th, 2008 |
| ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Kaiserslautern, Germany (in english language only) |
October 25th - 26th, 2008 |
| ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Zurich, Switzerland |
November 1st-2nd, 2008 |
| ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Hannover, Germany |
November 15th - 16th, 2008 |
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| ABA/VB Workshop #2 in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
December 1st - 2nd, 2008 |
| ABA/VB Workshop #1 in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia |
December 18th-19th, 2008 |
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Introductory ABA/VB workshop #1 "Be your child's best teacher"
This is not a typical workshop designed to merely explain what ABA with Verbal Behavior is. This workshop introduces many of the major principles of ABA/VB offering information that will allow those in attendance to begin thinking about the behavior choices of their children with (and without) autism in more productive and successful ways. (Note: ABA is a scientific approach to assessing behavior and can only be conducted by trained individuals under the guidance of a qualified behavior analyst).
Day One: The principles of ABA/VB
1. What is Autism
2. ABA = Good Teaching
3. Knospe-ABA Teaching Philosophy
4. Our Qualifications and training
5. Why you need to “Be Your Child’s Best Teacher” (video)
6. The History of ABA and Verbal Behavior
7. The importance of individuality (learning about the ABLLS)
8. The ABC Paradigm (the basics of Behavior)
9. Reinforcement vs. Punishment
10. Earning Instructional Control (Videos)
11. Capturing and creating motivation to learn (Video)
12. Discrete Trial Teaching Format
13. Watch the progress of children in ABA/VB programs (Video)
Day Two: The teaching Strategies of ABA/VB
1. What is Verbal Behaivor?
2. The Nine Categories of Language
3. Three types of Teaching (video)
4. Intensive teaching strategies (videos)
5. Prompting and Fading
6. Teaching children to echo sounds (video)
7. Teaching children to talk (videos)
8. Sign Language (video)
9. Verbal Imitation (Video)
10. Beginning Mands (Requests) (video)
11. Common teaching mistakes to avoid
12. Understanding Behavior
13. Using a teaching arc and mini-consequences (video)
14. Can you do this? (video)
15. What you can do right now
ABA/VB workshop #2:
Advanced Teaching Methods for Parents and Professionals |
This Workshop is only available to parents, caregivers and professionals who have participated in the Introductory Workshop I and have been working with a child with autism for at least 3 months under the supervision of a qualified behavior analyst.
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Workshop II Topics
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Day Two: |
| 1. ABA Research Study Analysis |
1. In Depth View of Consequences |
| 2. In Depth View of the 7 Steps (video) |
2. Behavioral Classification of Language (quiz) |
| 3. The ABC Paradigm Revisited (video) |
3. Transfer Procedures (video) |
| 4. SD or EO? (quiz) |
4. Correction Procedures (video) |
| 5. Transitive EO Plans (Video) |
5. Expanded Trials |
| 6. Reflexive EO's (video) |
6. Joint Control (video) |
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7. Family Progress Open Discussion
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7. Mix n Vary, Inter-Trial Intervals, and Fluency (video)
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And much more!
Portions of Workshop II will be video taped for future use in helping support ABA/VB in Germany. Participation in workshop requires a willingness to participate in a taped workshop.
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ABA/VB Workshop #3:
Developing and Running Your Own ABA/VB Program (Coming Soon)
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