DVD : A Systematic Approach to Teaching Speech to Non-Vocal Individuals with Autism

Product Description

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This course is a comprehensive program that combines principles of Applied Behavior Analysis with Oral Placement Therapy and is readily applicable to Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists and Behavior Analysts.

Run time 12 hours.

Course Description

This course is a comprehensive program that combines principles of Applied Behavior Analysis with Oral Placement Therapy. For Behavior Analysts, 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.

Included

2 – Latex-Free Gloves,1 (set) – Bite Blocks ,1 – Nose Clip, 1 – Bubble Tube
1 – (unflavored) Tongue Depressor

NOT included: soft gum (ex., BubbleYum), gummy bears, spit cup

Suggested Add-ons

• “Complete Apraxia Program”
• Red Chewy Tubes | Yellow Chewy Tubes
• Straw 1 | Straw 4 | Straw 5

Instructor – Renee Roy Hill, MS, CCC-SLP & Risca Solomon. MS, BCB

Renee Roy Hill has provided therapeutic assessments and program planning for adults and children with oral placement, feeding and motor speech deficits for over 17 years. She is the owner of Crossreads Therapy Clinic in New Braunfels, TX and a member of the TalkTools® speakers bureau. Renee has been an invited speaker for ASHA state conventions and has received specialized training in speech/oral-motor/feeding therapy, Apraxia, sensory processing disorders, Hanen Courses, NDT training, TAMO therapy and PROMPT. She is the creator of the TalkTools® Schedule Board Kit, co-author of Ice Sticks, and author of the TalkTools® Apraxia Program

Risca Solomon has over 13 years of experience in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis working with children with autism and related disabilities. Risca is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst with a Master’s degree in Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviour from the Welsh School of Learning Disabilities, Cardiff University. In 2009, Risca received the Exceptional Professional award from Cerebra, a charity for children with brain related conditions. She runs Skybound Autism Therapies in the United Kingdom and is a member of the TalkTools® speakers bureau.