A great opportunity for parents!!!
Kuwait's Applied Behavior Center (ABC) is providing a workshop on teaching communication skills to your kids. ABC of Kuwait provides early intervention for kids with Autism and related disorders. This specific training will focus on the communication aspect of developmental delays. All relevant information is below. Book now as seats are very limited!
Note: If you cannot make it to this event, please make sure you call and ask to be part of ABC's contact list.
Teaching
Functional Communication Skills
Applied Behavior Center of Kuwait will
be hosting a parent workshop focusing on teaching communication skills to
children with speech delays. The workshop will be presented by Certified
Behavior Analyst, Amy Atwell of the New England Center for Children.
This workshop will demonstrate how
incorporating B. F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior, as well as an
understanding of how to capture & contrive motivation, promotes the
development of functional communication. This would help in decreasing
challenging behavior through teaching your child how to have their needs and
wants met without resorting to inappropriate behavior. Specifically, parents
& caregivers will be given the following:
·
The technical
definition of “positive reinforcement” & strategies for identifying your
child’s reinforcers
·
Guidelines for
selecting functional communication targets
·
Teaching,
prompting, & error-correction procedures to be utilized when conducting communication
training
·
How to contrive
situations to teach functional communication
·
How to make every
the environment and any experience a learning opportunity
The workshop is open to all parents interested
in learning about language development. A certificate of attendance will
be provided to all attendees. The workshop also meets the requirement for
Continuing Education Units (CEU’s).
Date: 8th of April
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Place: Burj Jasim Tower, 23rd
floor, Soor St, Kuwait City (opposite the Discovery Mall / Ice Rink)
Fee: KD15
Please contact ABC of Kuwait at 2296-0991 to reserve a seat or for
further information. Please feel
free to visit our website www.abckuwait.com.
