Contemporary Applied Behaviour Analysis for Teachers
Information
Start Date -
02/06/2010
Start Time -
09:30
Finish Date -
02/06/2010
Finish Time -
00:00
Venue -
Middletown
Tutor -
Dr Patricia Daly
Audience -
This course is intended for teachers and other school personnel working with students with challenging behaviour and ASD.
Description
The course will examine ways to count and record occurrences of behaviour as well as charting them. Typical functions of inappropriate behaviour will be examined with a view to selecting interventions to match these functions. Specific preventive interventions (Antecedent) will be presented as well as motivational strategies (Consequence-based) for working with students with limited communicative competence.
The course is divided into three sections:
1. Dimensions of human behaviour, counting and charting and reading charts
2. Analysis of human behaviour including motivational variables, the three-term and four-term contingencies, positive and negative reinforcement, and
3. Matching interventions to behavioural functions including non-contingent reinforcement procedures and DRO.
Course Outcomes
participants will:
1. understand human behaviour as a combination of antecedent and consequent events as well as unique history
2. be able to select the best method for counting different kinds of classroom behaviour from three methods given.
3. read professional charts of behaviour from the literature
4. suggest possible functions for inappropriate behaviours
5. match types of interventions to specific types of inappropriate behaviours
6. understand that data collection should come before intervention
Other Information
Presenter: Dr Patricia Daly
Dr. Patricia M. Daly is the Head of the Department of Special Education at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, and is seconded half-time to the Special Education Support Service (SESS). She has a doctorate in Applied Behaviour Analysis from Ohio State University and worked for 25 years in the US. She was a post-primary teacher in Co. Cork for 4 years in the late 1970s.
Application Deadline -
19/05/2010 12:00