(Previously titled "Systematic Approach to Teaching Speech to Non-Vocal Individuals with Autism")

The course demonstrates the importance of using specific techniques within hierarchies to develop the oral placement skills for speech and feeding. For Speech and Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists, this course demonstrates techniques developed within the Applied Behavior Analysis field to maximize learning for functional speech using reinforcement based procedures. The course guides all participants through a complete program beginning with developing cooperation and ending with functional vocabulary. 

Lesson 1 = 90 minutes

• Why a Combined Applied Behavior Analysis & Speech Pathology Approach?
• Identify Current Definitions of Autism, Applied Behavior Analysis and Oral Placement Therapy (OPT).

 Lesson 2 = 90 minutes

• Definitions of Skinner’s Verbal Operants
• Systematic Program Overview

Lesson 3 = 90 minutes

• Key Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis: Motivation, Reinforcement and the Discrete Trial
• Developing Cooperation
• Manding: Importance and How to Teach

Lesson 4 = 90 minutes

• Using Transitive Motivating Operations to Maximize Manding
• Motor Imitation: Importance and How to Teach

Lessons 5 & 6 = 180 minutes

• Oral Placement Therapy (OPT): Learn task analyzed techniques and specific behavioral techniques for implementing activities with clients who have had difficulty developing the motor plans to begin.

Lesson 7 = 90 minutes

• Using a Visual Schedule: When and How
• Teaching to Vocalize on Demand: Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing, Direct Reinforcement, Using Extinction, Rapid Motor Imitation.
• Bridging the Gap between Oral Placement Therapy (OPT) and Speech: Putting it All Together

Lesson 8 = 90 minutes

• Bridging Strategies from Tool to Tactile Cue to Visual Cues Through Echoic (imitation) and Manding (function)
• Transitioning from Isolated Speech Sounds to Functional Words: Practicing Multisyllabic Motor Plans.

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