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AUTISM ONE 2008 CONFERENCE
BEHAVIOR / COMMUNICATION / EDUCATION / THERAPIES TRACK SAMPLER
MAY 21-25, 2008, CHICAGO, IL, www.autismone.org


Dr. Howard Shane, Director of the Center for Communication Enhancement at Children's Hospital Boston, presents:
Use of Electronic Media to Promote Acquisition of Action Verbs and Prepositions.

This presentation will describe a clinical procedure for teaching action verbs and prepositions (known grammatical categories difficult in acquisition and use) to persons with ASD. The approach uses electronic screen media as an instructional medium. The two clinical strategies that use different visual configurations to develop an appreciation of this visual based syntax including:
1. Teaching Language Concepts (TLC) uses a top-down associative approach and
2. The Element Directive approach or bottom-up approach.
Electronic media examples of these procedures and clinical outcomes will be included in the presentation.

Dr. Marion Blank, Director, A Light on Learning, Columbia University Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program, presents:
Reading Comprehension: Why This Skill Is So Elusive and How It Can Be Fostered?

In reading, children with ASD often show excellent decoding abilities. At the same time, they frequently display marked difficulties in comprehension. The problems are common even among those with relatively high levels of verbal skill. This seriously impacts academic achievement and a wide range of related areas. The presentation will discuss the reasons for the difficulties and the ways in which traditional teaching can be modified so as to enable the children to succeed. The presentation will offer a new program Steps to Stories that incorporates unique content and methods to start the children on the path to effective comprehension. A further benefit to the program is that the skills it fosters often generalize to other verbal settings, including improved conversational abilities.

Jennifer Jacobs, MS, CCC-SLP, co-founder, Social Skill Builder, presents:
Navigating Social Skills Training: From Practice to Real Life Application.
Learn about the new methods of teaching social skills to children and adolescences with ASD and other language learning disorders. Discuss research and review case studies of subjects, from preschool through high school, who have made outstanding gains in social language and behavior. Understand how to easily implement techniques and motivate students to carry over skills into their daily lives.

Mary Lynch Barbera, RN, MSN, BCBA, Lead Behavior Analyst, Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project, presents:
The Verbal Behavior Approach: Teaching Children with Autism
Drawing on her experience as both a parent of a son with autism as well as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), Mary Lynch Barbera will provide participants with information to help children with autism learn language and other important skills. Mary will highlight strategies from her book: The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children with Autism and Related Disorders, and provide guidance using the scientifically proven strategies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) specifically utilizing B.F. Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Parents and professionals will be empowered with information regarding ABA/VB programming for children with autism and other developmental disorders.

Jeffrey Getzell, OD, FCOVD, FCSO, presents:
Vision: The Missing Link in Your Child's Perceiving, Processing and Performance.
Vision is often the overlooked factor in perception, processing and performance. Sight is seeing clearly, but the vision process allows us to make sense out of our world and then do something about it. Behaviors like poor eye contact, looking out of the side of the eyes, self stimulation, reading and learning difficulties, difficulty making transitions, and inability to read social cues, speech delays, lack of awareness of surroundings, awkwardness and clumsiness, etc. are often the result of an inadequate visual process. Demonstrations will be done to better understand how vision governs or has a major impact on how we think, speak, listen and move.


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