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2011 Fall Convention Schedule – October 5-7, 2011

Behavior analysts, counselors, and educators can earn up to 18 CEUs!
 

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011: Pre-convention workshops - Registration opens at 7:45am

*NOTE: A description of each workshop is provided at the end of this page.
 
Workshop 1: 8:30 to 11:30 am 
Title: Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders (3 CEs)
Presenter: Cathleen C. Piazza, Ph.D., BCBA-D
 
Workshop 2:  1:30 to 4:30 pm
Title: Functional Analysis and Treatment of Aberrant Behavior in Autism (3 CEs)
Presenter: Wayne Fisher, Ph.D, BCBA-D
 

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - Registration opens at 7:45 am

8:45 to 9 am: Opening Remarks, Susan Ford, PhD, BCBA-D, President
 
9:00 to 9:50 am: Evolution and Outcomes of Statewide Initiatives in the Alabama Child Welfare System, Sabrina Franks, MS, BCBA, Franseca Mata, M.S, BCBA, & Erin Wofford, M.S., BCBA 
 
10:00 to 11: 20 am: Stimulus Control Issues during Verbal Behavior Instruction, Symposium Chair: Linda LeBlanc, PhD, BCBA-D
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
11:30 to 12: 20 pm: Bio-Behavioral Approaches to the Assessment and Treatment of Autism, Wayne Fisher, Ph.D, BCBA-D
 
12:30 to 2:00 pm – LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
 
2:00 to 2:50 pm: Appropriate and Inappropriate Sexual Behavior of Children and Youth , Susan Ford, PhD, BCBA-D and Patricia McClanahan, PhD, LPA
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
3:00 to 3:50 pm:  A Summary of the Effectiveness of Treatments for Pediatric Feeding Disorders, Cathleen Piazza, Ph.D., BCBA-D

  4:30 to 6:00 pm: Business Meeting and Cocktail Reception for all 

 

Friday October 7, 2011

 8:30 to 9:20 am: Maintaining and Expanding Professional Behavior-Analytic Repertoires, Symposium Chair: James E. Carr, PhD, BCBA-D 
 
9:30 to 10:20 am: Adaptive Behavior Symposium: Functional and Social Skills, Chair: Linda LeBlanc, PhD, BCBA-D
 
10:30 to 11:20: Teaching Elementary Students with Disabilities to Mand through Naturalistic Instruction and a Communication Aid, Symposium Chair: Sara Bicard, PhD, BCBA-D
 
 11:30 to 1:30 pm – LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
 
1:30 to 2:50 pm: Training Parents to Manage Disruptive Behaviors of Children with Autism, Symposium Chair: Kimberly Zlomke, Ph.D., BCBA-D 
 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
3:00 to 3:50 pm: Recommendations for Facilitating Ethical Behavior in the Workplace, James E. Carr, PhD, BCBA-D
 
END of CONVENTION. 
 
 
 WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Wednesday October 5, 2011

Workshop 1: 8:30 to 11:30 am

Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders

Cathleen C. Piazza, Ph.D., BCBA-D

University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute

Feeding disorders are common in children and may be exhibited as a variety of topographies (e.g., food selectivity, food refusal). These problems may result in inadequate nutritional status and may be related to long-term developmental and behavioral sequelae. The purpose of this workshop will be to discuss methods of evaluating how specific behaviors can be defined and measured to allow quantification of variables related to the topographies of feeding disorders displayed by children with autism. A second purpose will be to review how this data-based approach can be used to prescribe and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment.

Learning Objectives:

Following attendance at the workshop, individuals will be able to:

  1. Set objective, measurable goals for treatment of pediatric feeding disorders.
  2. Write objective, measurable definitions of behavior related to pediatric feeding disorders.
  3. Use at least one method to measure observable behavior.
  4. Identify methods for graphing objectively-measured behavior.
  5. Identify methods for using objectively-measured data to prescribe treatment for pediatric feeding disorders.
  6. Identify methods for evaluating whether treatments are effective.


1: 30 to 4:30 pm – Workshop 2

Functional Analysis and Treatment of Aberrant Behavior in Autism

Wayne Fisher, Ph.D, BCBA-D

University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute

Functional analysis (FA) is an individualized assessment designed to evaluate a person’s problem behavior in relation to environmental events that may affect the future probability of that behavior.  Functional analysis is designed to identify (a) the environmental contexts in which problem behavior is likely and unlikely to occur; (b) the consequences that reinforce problem in those contexts; and (c) specific interventions that are likely to effectively reduce the individual’s problem behavior.  In this workshop, I will show how FA methods have (a) increased our understanding of how environmental antecedents and consequences affect problem behavior in children with autism; (b) facilitated the development of novel and effective treatments, and (c) produced simpler and more efficient interventions for problem behavior.  Finally, I will also show how descriptive data can be used to develop alternative functional analyses for idiosyncratic functions of problem behavior displayed by individuals with autism.

Learning Objectives:

Following attendance at the workshop, individuals will be able to:

  1. Distinguish between topographical and functional approaches to categorizing aberrant behavior
  2. Identify the strengths and limitations of indirect and direct functional assessments and formal functional analyses
  3. Identify potentially effective behavioral interventions based on the results of a formal functional analysis