Workshop #4

Teaching Verbal Behavior: 

Hands On Training For Teachers And Therapists

Presented by:

Dr. Emily Sweeney Kerwin, BCBA-D & Margaret M. Hagerty, BCBA

AUDIENCE: This workshop is designed for teachers, therapists, behavior analysts and others whose role is to design and implement methods to increase the verbal behavior of children with autism and related disorders in home, school, or center-based programs.

OBJECTIVE: This two-day hands-on workshop will provide the participants with information and coaching in the following areas:

1. Using the VB-MAPP/ABLLS to develop an Individualized Treatment Plan
2. Establishing Instructional control in the natural environment and during discrete trial instruction
3. Prompt and prompt fading procedures during instruction
4. Teaching the mand
5. Teaching the echoic
6. Teaching the tact
7. Teaching listener behavior (receptive language)
8. Teaching the intraverbal
9. Natural Environment teaching
10. Advanced verbal behavior
11. Program material organization
12. Reducing problem behavior
13. Data recording and graphic display
     

The participants leave the workshop with an individualized teaching plan to begin instruction immediately, the methods of teaching the skills, data recording procedures, and a list of the progression of specific skills to be taught over several months.

Cost:  $495/person
Date:  May 27 & 28, 2026
Location: All Points Licensed Behavior Analysts
Time:  8:30am-4:30pm 
Specific location DoubleTree By Hilton /929 Hingham Street Rockland, MA 02370                                                   

13 BCBA & BCABA CEUs provided for full attendance at this workshop.

If you have any questions, please contact Danielle Halpin at dhalpin@allpointsaba.com or 845-267-0920.

If you wish to us a purchase order, please email Danielle Halpin at dhalpin@allpointsaba.com or 845-267-0920.