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2010 CE Workshop |
Instruction Level IntermediateProposed Audience Psychologists, behavior analysts, speech therapists, teachers, or other professionals or paraprofessionals who work with or are interested in verbal behavior.
Program Description This workshop will focus primarily on the basic concepts of the book Verbal Behavior by B.F. Skinner (1957). In this book, Skinner described language or verbal behavior by the function language serves in various situations or stimulus conditions. Describing language in this manner has proved to be very useful for remedial language instruction in persons, especially children, with defective language repertoires. The workshop will begin with a brief review of the history of the development of Verbal Behavior as a subject matter and training technique. The majority of the workshop will be spent discussing the basic concepts that constitute verbal behavior and the elementary verbal operants (echoic, mand, tact, intraverbal, textual (reading) and transcriptive (writing)). Examples of verbal behavior training will also be incorporated into this discussion and participants will complete exercises to use concepts presented to create verbal behavior training programs.
Learning Objectives On completion of the workshop the participants should be able to: 1. identify instances of verbal and non-verbal behavior based on Skinner’s definition of Verbal Behavior. 2. define the primary verbal operants. 3. identify examples of the primary verbal operants. 4. create a simple training procedure for the echoic, mand, tact and intraverbal operants.
The Presenter Mark Stafford, M.A., LPA, BCBA Mr. Stafford earned his Bachelor's (1977) and Master's (1990) Degrees in Applied Behavior Analysis from the psychology department at Western Michigan University. His graduate work was done under the direction of Dr. Jack Michael a leader in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior. While at WMU, Mr. Stafford had the good fortune to work along side and co-author with Dr. Mark Sundberg, a current leading expert in the field of Verbal Behavior and autism treatment. Drs. Sundberg and Michael, sparked his interest in B.F. Skinner's book Verbal Behavior and the application of the principals presented in that book to the training of language skills in children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Mr. Stafford moved to North Carolina in 1991 and practiced for several years as a Licensed Psychological Associate providing behavior analysis consultation to group homes for children and adults and to families of children with developmental disabilities. He has also worked as a Staff Psychologist at the Murdoch Developmental Center. Mark has served on the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis since 2007 and is currently serving as President Elect. Mr. Stafford took the position as Director of Programs at the Mariposa School for Children with Autism in May 2010, where he oversees the development and implementation of Verbal Behavior and Applied Behavior Analysis programming for students with autism.
Date and Time Friday, September 24th, 2010 On-Site Registration: 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Workshop: 1:30 pm. – 4:30 pm
Credit 3 Hours Category A Continuing Education Credit for NC psychologists and/or 3 hours Type II BACB Approved Continuing Education Credit.
Attendance To receive credit, you must be present for the entire workshop, and you must sign the sign-in and sign-out sheets. No credit will be given for participants who are more than 15 minutes late at the beginning of the workshop. No credit will be given to participants who leave before the close of the workshop. You must complete an evaluation form and turn it in at the close of the workshop to receive credit. Participants will receive a certificate documenting their attendance following the workshop and credit certificates will be mailed to the address provided during registration.
Registration Deadline and Refund Policy There is currently space available in this workshop. Registration will be limited to 30 people. If you register on or before September 6th, 2010 there is a special early registration fee of $55.00 to attend this workshop. There are also special rates available for anyone who would like to attend both this workshop and another workshop on Friday, September 24th , 2010 from 1:30pm to 4:30pm. A student rate of $25.00 is available with proof of current full time student status. You will receive a full refund for cancellation received on or before September 16th , 2010. No refund will be provided for cancellation received on or after September 17th, 2010.
Facility Information The Gathering Place is located inside the City Market building in downtown Winston-Salem, NC. Please click here for additional information about the location including directions, parking fees, and contact information.
No Smoking The workshop is non-smoking.
Continuing Education Credit The program is co-sponsored by the North Carolina Psychological Association and the North Carolina Association for Behavior Analysis. The North Carolina Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The North Carolina Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This program is offered for 3 hours of continuing education credit. In addition, this workshop is BACB approved for 3 hours of Type II continuing education credits.
Special Needs If you have special needs please note this on the registration form. This must be received at least two (2) weeks in advance of the workshop.
For Further Information Contact: Beth Schmitt, NCABA Secretary Phone: (919) 575-1261 Email: beth.schmitt@dhhs.nc.gov |
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Concepts and Training Techniques For Verbal Behavior |
