Patrick and Troy will describe how to use Essential for Living, a life skills curriculum and assessment instrument for children and adults with limited skill repertoires and moderate-to-severe problem behavior. They will describe how to conduct an initial quick assessment, how to make certain that a learner has an effective method of speaking that will last a lifetime, how to record small increments of learner performance and progress, and how to teach the Essential Eight Skills in a context which would occur in everyday living until fluency and some degree of generalization are achieved. They will also describe how to manage problem behavior as these skills are being taught. Participants will benefit from this training only if they have available with them a copy of the Essential for Living Practitioner’s Handbook.

4 CEUs - 2 Standard, 2 Ethics

$98.00

When children first begin to utter phonemes or word approximations in isolation or along with sign or picture-selection mands, speech-language therapists, behavior analysts, and parents are inclined to emphasize, encourage, and reinforce these unprompted utterances. In an expanded context of additional verbal and non-verbal repertoires that become more likely when a learner exhibits an echoic repertoire, an alternative procedure is described. A discussion of the importance of these additional repertoires also ensues.

1 CEU

$29.99

Behavior Live course offered by Dr. Patrick McGreevy and Troy Fry. 

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1.5 CEUs

$15.00

How Aggressive or Self-injurious Behavior Effects the Selection, Confirmation, and Implementation of a Method of Speaking by Dr. Patrick McGreevy. 

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1.5 CEUs

$15.00

Dr. McGreevy will describe eight elemental teaching procedures that are often overlooked during ABA and VB instruction and why and how these procedures are important. These procedures include: 1. Defining Movement Cycles 2. Distinguishing Cues from Prompts 3. Capturing and Contriving Motivating Events 4. Pacing Instruction 5. Prompting and Prompt-fading 6. Fading-in and Fading-out Events 7. Providing Consequent Events 8. Measuring Small Increments of Progress 

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1 CEU

$30.00

Most of the children whose instruction is guided by a developmental curriculum will experience extraordinary difficulty acquiring skills that are part of Level 2 of the VB-MAPP. These skills include: expressive and receptive language, matching and imitation, generalization across people, situations, and settings, the emergence of novel responses, complex (conditional) discriminations, answers to questions (intraverbals), conversation, and abstract concepts. If changes in instructional and management procedures are not effective, most of these children should be transferred to a functional skills curriculum. Issues related to this transfer are discussed.

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1 CEU

Free