A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO TEACHING SPEECH TO NON-VOCAL INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM – TIMED AGENDA

DAY 1

8:30AM - 12:00PM

• 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

12:00PM - 1:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM – 4:30PM

• 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

DAY 2

8:30AM - 12:00PM

• 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.

12:00PM - 1:00PM LUNCH

1:00PM - 4:30PM

• 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
• 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.