This full-day workshop is designed to introduce participants to
the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis as they apply to
teaching new skills. Participants will gain a greater
understanding of ABA terminology as well as how principles of
this structured approach to teaching new skills are used in
everyday life. More importantly, participants will have the
opportunity to practice the various teaching strategies
presented as well as design an instructional program related to
a skill they wish to teach. Teaching strategies reviewed in this
workshop include motivation and reinforcement, task analysis,
shaping, prompting, chaining, discrete trial teaching,
incidental teaching, natural environment training, error
correction procedures, data collection methods as well as
maintenance and generalization. This “how to” workshop will be
supplemented with video clips and hands-on exercises to ensure
participants’ understanding of the principles of ABA.