C-ABA, Course A
Description
This C-ABA is a course on Applied Behaviour Analysis.
ABA is a research-based approach to understanding behaviour. The ABA approach involves breaking skills into their component parts, sequentially teaching them, and providing opportunities for children to generalize their skills across environments.
The course is designed to teach the skills necessary for the design, implementation, and evaluation of behaviour management programs for use with individuals with mild, moderate, or intensive needs in a variety of settings. Behaviour management programs focus on both the elimination of problem behaviours and the acquisition and maintenance of adaptive skills.
The course content includes:
- Data Collection Methods, Charting and Reading charts
- Data-based Teaching
- Increasing and Maintaining Desirable Behaviours
- Reducing or Replacing Inappropriate Behaviours Positively
- Understanding Effects of Punishment
- Shaping and Chaining Academic and Social Behaviours
- Prompts, Fading Prompts, Stimulus Control
- Maintenance and Generalisation of appropriate Behaviours
- Self-Management Strategies.
The course is open to:
- Teachers working in units/classes for students with ASDs in a mainstream setting
- Teachers in special schools who are currently working with student(s) with ASDs
- Full-time Resource/Learning Support teachers who are currently working with student(s) with ASDs
Places will be allocated according to the listed criteria on a first come first served basis.
The course runs from 9.00am - 4.00pm
Participants will require permission from the Board of Management to attend. Substitution for participating teachers will only be allowed by the Teacher Education Section, DES, for teachers with primary responsibility for student(s) with ASDs and if it is deemed absolutely essential by the Principal.
Applications must be submitted to the SESS Office at least two weeks prior to the starting date.
Click here for Application Form [MS Word, 95Kb].
Location
Green Isle Hotel, Newlands Cross, Dublin 22
Date
This event takes place on 21 September 2010