Advanced Hands-On Verbal Behavior - Skills and Strategies

Presented by:
Gabriel Schnerch, BCBA
Kristen Kringhaug, B.A., BCaBA
Lynn Service, B.A.

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This advanced level workshop is designed to provide a small group of 35 consultants and behavior interventionists with guided practice in implementation of Applied Behavior Analysis teaching methods. It is suitable for individuals who have already done courses with Dr. Jacobsen or Dr. Vince Carbone and who have practical experience in implementing ABA programs using a Verbal Behavior approach with children with autism. Instruction and supervised practice are provided for the following areas:

• Establishing instructional control with an unwilling learner.
• Manipulating motivational operations (MO) during teaching opportunities to maintain attention and maximize learning.
• Manipulating MO to teach early to advanced manding skills.
• Teaching early to advanced skills within the following areas: receptive, visual performance, motor imitation, tacting, and intraverbals, including Matching to Sample sequence and intraverbal webbing.
• Understanding and using joint control techniques.
• Correlating ABLLS-R objectives to ensure development of functional language

Prerequisites: Substantial understanding of the terminology of Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior is a prerequisite for this fast-paced hands-on course. Attendance in an Introduction to Verbal Behavior workshop or equivalent training, and experience in teaching children with autism in either the home or school setting, is also necessary for partici pants to get the full benefit of this opportunity. All participants must be prepared to be actively engaged in the hands-on exercises. Participants should bring a completed ABLLS or ABLLS-R for a child so activities can be applied to programming for a “real” child. Each participant will receive a certificate of participation if they complete the full two days.

Note: Participants must have a basic knowledge of ABA–Verbal Behavior to register in this course. An ACT staff member will contact you before your registration to confirm. To further prepare for this workshop, participants are encouraged to view the online videos available on the ACT website within the ‘What is ABA?’ webpage. All registrants for the Hands On VB workshop will have access to these two videos free of charge.

About the Presenters:
 Gabriel Schnerch is a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) with a wide-range of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum from ages 3 to 45 years old, providing home and centre-based ABA services, and consultation to schools. He has extensive experience from years as a behavior interventionist and a behavioural consultant, as well as a clinical behaviour therapist and clinical psychology intern. He also has extensive experience teaching undergraduate and graduate-level university courses in ABA, the science of learning, and child developmental psychology. Gabriel Schnerch is currently completing his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Manitoba. He is a member of staff at ABA-LC.

Kristen Kringhaug has a BA in Psychology and is a Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst. She is a program supervisor at ABA-Learning Centre.

Lynn Service has a BA in Psychology and has recently completed the Disability and Applied Behavior Analysis Program at Douglas College. She is Student Program Supervisor & Training Facilitator at ABA-Learning Centre.

Please see the full Registration Form for more information about the workshop and the presenters.