PL-Boosting Instruction in ASD Elementary Classrooms (Verbal Operants): 2023-2024 (Instructional) Boosting Instruction in ASD Elementary Classrooms (Verbal Operants): July 24-25, 2023

This session will provide intensive training and guided practice in teaching skills for applied behavior analytic interventions incorporating an analysis of verbal behavior. Focus will be on skills related to teaching students with autism and related developmental disorders. The three day training will involve having participants demonstrate skills related to identifying the verbal operants and other ABA concepts, developing classroom scheduled and card sort systems for teacher, demonstrating procedures for intensive teaching (discrete trial instruction) and basic mand training skills. Participants will be required to demonstrate acquisition of conceptual skills through brief oral and written assessments and demonstrate implementation of various teaching protocols.