TalkTools® Course — Timed Agenda
Taking Your Client with Autism (ASD) from Non-Vocal to Verbal™
TalkTools® Taking Your Client with Autism (ASD) from Non-Vocal to Verbal™ · 2-Day Workshop
Day 1
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
15 min break at 10:45 am
- 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
Lunch
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
15 min break at 2:15 pm
- 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
Day 2
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
15 min break at 10:45 am
- 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
Lunch
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
15 min break at 2:15 pm
- Using a Visual Schedule: When and How
- Teaching to Vocalize on Demand: Stimulus-Stimulus Pairing, Direct Reinforcement, Using Extinction, Rapid Motor Imitation
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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
