Workshop participants will review video footage and receive a large workbook containing information pertaining to topics discussed in the workshop including:

• Using the Assessment of Basic Language & Learning Skills, Partington & Sundberg (1998) to determine skills
• Identification of the four functions of behavior (both adaptive and maladaptive)
• Understanding the basic principles or reinforcement, punishment, extinction, and shaping
• Creating and capturing motivation for young learners to acquire language skills
• Teaching non-vocal learners to use American Sign Language (ASL) as a functional communication system
• Teaching vocal learners to use language under multiple conditions
• Teaching imitation skills
• Teaching following directions
• Teaching language in the natural environment
• Teaching skills using Errorless Learning
• Teaching replacement skills for unwanted behaviors
• Data keeping procedures for targeted skills

Time: 9:30-4:30 (lunch on your own)

Location:         Kentucky Domestic Violence Association
                        111 Darby Shire Circle
                        Frankfort, KY 40601

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Amanda Ralston is a Board Certified Associate Behavior Analyst and independent Verbal Behavior consultant based in Lexington, KY.  In the past seven years Ms. Ralston has worked with over 200 children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental disabilities, as well as providing education to hundreds of parents and professionals interested in Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior methodologies in Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.

Following the attendance of Dr. Vincent J. Carbone's workshops #1-4, Ms. Ralston attended 90 hours of coursework in Jacksonville, FL with Carbone, Ed. D., BCBA, and began a year-long distance mentorship with him to fulfill her certification requirements prior to sitting for the national board exam in Nashville, TN.

            Ms. Ralston travels daily to provide consultation, feedback, and training to families, schools, and agencies regarding principles and procedures guided by the science of Applied Behavior Analysis and the literature regarding the behavioral classification of language known as Verbal Behavior methodology.  She continues to seek additional education in her field in order to provide up-to-date information to her audiences and effective treatment recommendations to her clients.

            She currently contracts with Turning Point for Autism in Louisville, KY as well as Cincinnati Center for Autism in Cincinnati, OH to provide training and supports for one-on-one instructors in an effort to increase the number of available tutors in those areas.

September 23, Frankfort Workshop

Name(s):        _________________________________________

                        _________________________________________

I am a:             _____Parent ____Guardian ____ Relative  ____ Friend

                        ________ Professional/Paraprofessional (specify) __________

Organization: ___________________________________________

City, State, Zip: _______________________________________________             

Phone:____________________  Email:     _________________________

Fee:  $100x _____(# of persons attending)  =  $_______

How would you rate your knowledge of Verbal Behavior Methodology? 

Very limited, Somewhat proficient, Proficient, Very proficient       

Please enclose Workshop fee payable to Amanda Ralston, BCABA along with this form to:

Ralston, BCABA
P.O. Box 216
Lexington, KY 40588

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