Taking your Client with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from Non-Vocal to Verbal™ - Timed Agenda
TIMED AGENDA
Taking your client with ASD from Non-Vocal to Verbal:
AGENDA: DAY 1
9:00am-12:00pm (15 min. break at 10:45am)
- Why a Combined Applied Behavior Analysis & Speech Pathology Approach?
- Identify Current Definitions of Autism, Applied Behavior Analysis and Oral Placement Therapy (OPT)
- Definitions of Skinner’s Verbal Operants
- Systematic Program Overview
12:00pm-12:30pm LUNCH
12:30pm – 4:00pm (15 min. break at 2:15pm)
- Key Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis: Motivation, Reinforcement and the Discrete Trial
- Developing Cooperation
- Manding: Importance and How to Teach
- Using Transitive Motivating Operations to Maximize Manding
- Motor Imitation: Importance and How to Teach
- Question & Answer time
AGENDA: DAY 2
9:00am-12:00pm (15 min. break at 10:45am)
- 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.
12:00pm-12:30pm LUNCH
12:30pm – 4:00pm (15 min. break at 2:15pm)
- 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
- 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
- Question & answer