Training

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to: 

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Explain how many non-verbal clients with autism have underlying oral motor and motor planning deficits that should be addressed.
5. Apply specific task analyzed techniques to assist the therapist in applying TalkTools hierarchies to individuals with autism.
6. Identify the connection between oral placement skills and the motor aspects of speech
7. Apply specific sequential techniques to transition oral placement skills to functional speech for those clients not responding to traditional verbal modeling and shaping techniques.

Content Disclosure: This presentation will focus on treatment methods related to the use of TalkTools® OPT resources. Other similar treatment approaches will receive limited or no coverage during this lecture.

This program is offered for 1.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level; Professional Area) • 1.2 AOTA CEUs • 12 Instructional Hours (see TalkTools ASHA CEU Policy and Process for more information)

Timed Agenda 

Video Lessons 1 & 2 = 3 hours

• 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

Video Lessons 3 & 4 = 3 Hours

• 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

Video Lessons 5 & 6 = 3 Hours

• 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.

Video Lessons 7 & 8 = 3 Hours

• 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.

Instructors

Renee Roy Hill, MS, CCC-SLP instructor bio and financial disclosure

Risca Solomon, MS, BCBA instructor bio and financial disclosure

How e-learning works

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Learning Options

• Online ONLY for 1 learner -- ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE (downloadable workbook, forms and charts)
• Online + SUPPLIES for 1 learner --  ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE, plus the following supplies 

• 2	Gloves (latex free)
  2	(individual) Bite Blocks #2 or #3
  1	Bubble Tube / BubbleTube - Straw (4" Green Cut into 3 Pieces)
  1	unflavored tongue depressor

• Suggested food supplies (not included): soft gum (BubbleYum), gummy bears, spit cup
• Online + SUPPLIES + DVD for 1 learner - ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE plus supplies listed above and 1 course DVD
• Group Rate for 5 learners
• ACCESS TO ONLINE COURSE for 5 learners
• 5 sets of SUPPLIES listed above
• 1 course DVD

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