Merging Speech-Language Pathology and ABA: Innovative Tools to Improve Speech and Language in Children with Autism.
Saturday and Sunday, October 6 & 7, 2018 in Nyon, Vaud in Switzerland
This seminar is intended for professionals, teachers, parents and anyone who is aware of autism
Seminar in English with simultaneous French translation
Description of the Seminar
This seminar will provide participants with knowledge about oral language production. They will learn to analyze the speech production errors that people may make and specific remediation aids.
Innovative procedures, which combine ABA science and speech therapy to improve oral language clarity, will be described and demonstrated. During the workshop, there will be frequent opportunities for practice and feedback.
The presentation will also explore the 6 “typical” language profiles of children and adolescents with autism. These profiles are designed to guide professionals and caregivers on how to divide therapy time between speech (verbal communication) and target augmentative alternative communication (e.g., signs, PECS, speech output device) and to provide specific behavioral procedures to establish and augment speech communication.
Participants will leave the conference with many effective tools to increase the voice communication skills of the people they work with.
Objectives
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
– Identify the three aspects of speech that define all sounds in any language
– Determine which aspect(s) of the pronunciation of a sound is wrong by comparing the target sound and the error
– Determine which speech guidance procedure is most effective depending on which aspect of the sound is incorrect
– Demonstrate at least five guidance procedures to correct vocal sound errors
– Demonstrate the association of a phoneme or syllable with a motor-kinesthetic cue
– Describe the characteristics of six different speech-language profiles of children with autism
– Describe two behavioral analysis procedures to increase the likelihood of vocal imitation behaviors
Janine Shapiro, CCS-SLP (Certificate of Clinical Competence – Speech-Language Pathologist), BCBA (Certified Applied Behavior Analyst) is the owner and clinical director of Access Behavior Analysis. It is an applied behavioral analysis clinic in Indiana, USA; 150 children with autism and their families benefit from it. She is one of the few professionals trained in both speech therapy and applied behavior analysis. Janine has over fifteen years of experience in treating speech, language and social deficits in children and adolescents with autism.
She has co-authored research on the effectiveness of Social Thinking Therapy, published in the Journal of Autism and Development Disorders and a chapter in Essential for Living – a curriculum and assessment tool for people with moderate to severe disabilities. She has also taught Applied Behavior Analysis at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level at Ball State University. Janine’s passion is to bridge the gap between behavioral analysts and speech-language pathologists by showing each professional the effective “tools” of each branch!
For more information see our flyer
*** ATTENTION THE NUMBER OF PLACES IS LIMITED ***
Registration deadline: August 31, 2018