Students with a verbal behavior program often benefit from implementation of the programming across multiple environments and with different people. This workshop is designed for those who will be helping to run a verbal behavior program but are not responsible for the primary assessment, selection of skills to teach, or making instructional decisions based on data.
In this workshop participants will learn important behavioral teaching principles including what is verbal behavior, discrete trial training, reinforcement, pairing, prompting and shaping
Participants will learn the verbal operants and why we teach a variety of skills
Participants will learn how to use errorless teaching techniques and error correction to help improve skill acquisition
Participants will receive hands-on instruction and practice on errorless teaching and error correction using the card sort system
We will only be focusing on programs that use the card sort system.
Utilizing the individualized intensive supports covered in this training could be a NeMTSS Tier 3 intervention. For more information on NeMTSS visit https://nemtss.unl.edu/about/