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Course Description
(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.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
Describe how the science of Applied Behavior Analysis in conjunction with oral placement and tactile therapies can be used to teach non-verbal or non-imitative clients with autism to speak.
Identify the prerequisite skills necessary to teach vocal speech and apply 3-4 techniques in the applied behavior analysis research that have been used to develop vocalizations.
Describe the sequential steps of developing functional communication beginning with motivation, reinforcement, motor imitation and specific shaping strategies that can be used to maximize learning of functional speech.
Explain how many non-verbal clients with autism have underlying oral motor and motor planning deficits that should be addressed.
Apply specific task analyzed techniques to assist the therapist in applying TalkTools hierarchies to individuals with autism.
Identify the connection between oral placement skills and the motor aspects of speech
Apply specific sequential techniques to transition oral placement skills to functional speech for those clients not responding to traditional verbal modeling and shaping techniques.
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Why a Combined Applied Behavior Analysis & Speech Pathology Approach?
Identify Current Definitions of Autism, Applied Behavior Analysis and Oral Placement Therapy (OPT).
Video Lesson 2 = 90 minutes
Definitions of Skinner’s Verbal Operants
Systematic Program Overview
Video Lesson 3 = 90 minutes
Key Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis: Motivation, Reinforcement and the Discrete Trial
Developing Cooperation
Manding: Importance and How to Teach
Video Lesson 4 = 90 minutes
Using Transitive Motivating Operations to Maximize Manding
Motor Imitation: Importance and How to Teach
Video 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.
Video 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
Video 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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Taking Your Client with ASD from Non-Vocal to Verbal
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