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About the Presenter:
Evelyn Gould, MSc, BCBA
Ms. Gould has worked with individuals with autism and other developmental and learning disabilities since 2002, when she began as a clinical and research assistant in Tampa, Florida, working on the design and execution of research and intervention protocols and clinical assessment, in a pediatric learning and behavior clinic. Ms. Gould later worked as a therapist implementing behavioral interventions with children with autism in Northern Ireland in 2003-2004, and went on to lead a team of behavior support workers in a residential school and children's home for teenagers with developmental disabilities in Wales in 2004-2005. She then returned to Northern Ireland in 2005 to train as an ABA Program Supervisor for children with autism, and later worked as Home Intervention Consultant for a Special Needs School. After several years working as a behavioral consultant and program supervisor, Ms Gould moved to the United States in 2009 to take up her current position as a Research and Development Supervisor at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders in Tarzana, California. Ms. Gould is a member of the Association for Behavior Analysis, and the California Association for Behavior Analysis. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), has been active in research for years, and has presented research at four U.S. conferences. Her current interests include behavioral interventions for complex human behavior such as cognition and social skills, assessment and curriculum design, and clinical behavioral interventions.
About the Presenter:
Jonathan Tarbox, PhD., BCBA-D
Dr. Jonathan Tarbox is currently the Director of Research and Development at the Center for Autism and Related Disorders. Dr. Tarbox has worked in a variety of positions in the field of autism and other developmental disorders, including applied research and clinical practice; with individuals of all ages and their families and care providers. He has worked for and in public school districts, private schools, sheltered workshops, group homes, behavioral consultation agencies, and hospitals; in direct service provision, supervision, consultation, and program development and director roles. His early career involved positions at both the New England Center for Children and the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Dr. Tarbox received his PhD in Behavior Analysis from the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Tarbox currently serves on the board of editors for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, and Behavior Analysis in Practice, and has published over 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited scientific texts.
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Antecedent and Ecological Manipulations for Challenging Behavior3 CE Credit Hours
This course will describe practical strategies for assessing, designing, and implementing antecedent and ecological manipulations for the treatment of challenging behaviors. Antecedent manipulations have the advantage of helping to prevent the occurrence of challenging behavior and can be particularly useful when behaviors are dangerous and/or difficult or impossible to place on extinction. Motivating operations, ecological variables, and the active support approach will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on implementing strategies in real-life environments, including the home, residential settings, and the classroom.
Course Date: Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Time: 12:30pm –3:00pm EST (9:30am– 12:00pm PST)
Location: Online/Teleconferencing
Presenter: Evelyn Gould, MSc, BCBA
Number of Type 2 ACE units: 3
Total Duration of the event: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes
Course Fee: $75.00
Event is Designed For: BCBAs and BCABAs
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Using Relational Frame Theory to Address Perspective - Taking and Executive Functions in Children with Autism3 CE Credit Hours
Perspective-taking and "executive function" are two higher-order areas of human functioning that research has demonstrated are often lacking in individuals with autism. Perspective-taking is said to be the ability to understand ones mental states and the mental states of others. In behavioral perspective, this amounts to being able to identify one's own private events and being able to infer the probable private events of others. "Executive functions" are said to be the brain functions which control goal-directed behavior. From a behavioral perspective, goal-directed behavior is nothing more or less than behavior and can therefore be taught like any other behavior. In the case of both perspective-taking and "executive functioning," what matters is flexible, generalized behavior, not specific topographies under the control of particular stimuli. Therefore, the formation of generalized operant behavior is the central topic that ties both together. Very little research on intervention in perspective-taking or executive functions has been published but conceptual work in the area of Relational Frame Theory (RFT) provides a useful and testable set of recommendations with which to start. In this presentation, we describe a behavioral approach to teaching the skills labeled as perspective-taking and "executive functioning" by the general psychological community. In both cases, intervention involves analyzing supposed mental functions into behavior/environment relations and then using proven behavioral procedures, such as prompting, reinforcement, prompt-fading, discrimination training, and multiple exemplar training, to establish generalized operant repertoires. Some recent research projects and publications by our group in these areas will be discussed. Although some time will be spent elaborating the conceptual foundation for intervening on perspective-taking and executive functioning from an RFT perspective, the overarching goal of this seminar is to provide practical suggestions for intervention in real-life settings with children with autism.
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Course Date: Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Time: 1:30pm –4:00pm EST (10:30am– 1:00pm PST)
Location: Online/Teleconferencing
Presenter: Jonathan Tarbox, PhD., BCBA-D
Number of Type 2 ACE units: 3
Total Duration of the event: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes
Course Fee: $75.00
Event is Designed For: BCBAs and BCABAs
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