Workshop Registration     (schedule & descriptions below)

You must register for the conference in order to register for a workshop. Pre-registration for workshops is strongly encouraged, as space is limited and workshops will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register online for the conference and workshops.

• $60: 6-hr workshop
• $35: 3-hr workshop
• $60: CEU processing fee (no maximum), where applicable. ($20 of this fee will be earmarked to support CalABA's public policy work.)

Workshop Schedule and Descriptions (subject to change – check this site periodically for updates)

Saturday, February 23, 2008 • 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
(see other workshops available Sat. 9am - 4pm and Sat. 1pm - 4pm)    (top)

CE: BACB

Fee: $35

Second, the workshop considers the origins and properties of basic reinforcement schedules. In Skinner's Operant Reserve theory, reinforced responses added to a reserve depleted by responding. It could not handle high rates maintained by partial reinforcement but would have if not just the last but also earlier responses preceding a reinforcer, each weighted by delay, had contributed to growth of the reserve. In computer simulations of this variation on Skinner's reserve, cumulative records and quantitative data for reinforcement schedules are consistent with those of real performances. The relevance to applications is that practitioners must consider the relation of a reinforcer not only to the most recent response but also to those that preceded it.

Third, the workshop pulls together the first two parts by considering an animal model of ADHD: spontaneously hyperactive rats (SHR) emit higher response rates than Wistar Kyoto (WKY) controls under equivalent schedules of reinforcement. With delay gradients of different steepness, the reserve simulation generates rate differences consistent with those from SHR and WKY rats. The workshop closes by discussing strategies for thinking about relations between basic contingencies and complex behavior in applied settings.

CE: BACB; MCEP

Fee: $35

Objectives: At the completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize ethical issues in the field and their importance to the general public as well as to behavior analysts.
• Understand primary ethical principles that underline both societal values and the content of Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts.
• Identify and analyze ethical dilemmas that are often encountered by behavior analysts and other service providers.
• Assess and realize the usefulness of Guidelines for Responsible Conduct as a tool in making ethical decisions.
• Use the six steps delineated in the Ethical Decision Making Model to resolve ethical dilemmas that are likely to occur in the ABA service delivery process.

Activities: This workshop will use cases both provided by the presenters and generated by participants to illustrate the implementation of Guidelines for Responsible Conduct for Behavior Analysts and the steps in the Ethical Decision Making Model. Participants of this workshop will be encouraged to:

1. identify their values and to associate these values with primary ethical principles;
2. recognize the characteristics of ethical dilemmas in the field of ABA; and
3. apply codes in Guidelines for Responsible Conduct and six steps specified in the Ethical Decision Making Model to cases that involve ethical dilemmas.

CE: BACB, BBS, SLPAB; MCEP

Fee: $35

CE: BACB, BBS
Fee: $35

CE: BACB, BBS, SLPAB; MCEP

Fee: $35

CE: BACB, BBS, SLPAB

Fee: $35

Workshop # 7 (DD – Intro)
BRYAN J. DAVEY
Arizona Center for Comprehensive Education and Life-Skills (ACCEL)
DONALD M. STENHOFF
University of Kentucky

CE: BACB

Fee: $35

Using Excel Spreadsheets and Graphs for Assessment and Treatment of Individual Behavior and Academic Performance in Applied Settings
Visual display of data is imperative when communicating functional relationships and intervention outcomes with consumers and fellow practitioners. BCBAs are expected to have knowledge in using graphs to convey results. However, simply possessing knowledge of visual displays may not transfer to effective or efficient software use. Excel is an efficient way for behavior analysts to create graphs. These graph types are often used to display interview results (e.g., FAST, MAS), preference assessment, structural and functional analyses, treatment (i.e., DRA, FCT, etc) and discrete trial program outcomes. While Excel can be difficult to use, this workshop will provide participants with hands on training promoting effective use. Workshop mini-lessons include creating spreadsheets and data sets, graph construction, manipulation of graph components (e.g., axes, phase change lines). Instructors will provide several models, followed by opportunities for participants to practice with feedback. Additionally, instructors will provide an Excel CD tutorial that will assist participants in future Excel projects. Participants are required to bring a laptop with the Excel application.

At the conclusion of this workshop participants will be able to

1. Setup specific spreadsheets, input and manipulate data within an Excel spreadsheet
2. Create graphs for alternating treatment, reversal, multiple-baseline designs, standard celeration, and cumulative records
3. Use the chart wizard, construct graphs of all data or select data sets within a spreadsheet, and update databases and graphs as data collection continues
4. Manipulate graph components (e.g., axes, data points, data paths, secondary axis), and use drawing tools to insert additional components (e.g., arrows, data labels, phase change lines, boxes)

CE: BACB, BBS; MCEP

Fee: $35

The content of this 3 hour workshop will include The Child Abuse and Reporting Act (California Penal Code section 1164) and participants in this workshop will learn:

1. The definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect.
2. The definitions of Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse and Neglect.
3. The research based risk factors for abuse and neglect of disabled persons
4. A behavioral analysis of escalating abusive interactions.
5. The decision criteria for making a report of suspected abuse or neglect.
6. The timelines for reporting and to whom the report must be made.
7. The civil and criminal penalties for failing to report in a timely manner.
8. Clinical Vignettes – Discussion and Decisions

CE: BACB

Fee: $35

Receptive identification (tact) frequently is one skill area in which children with autism require the practitioner to troubleshoot in order for a child to demonstrate skill acquisition. However, the range of creative strategies used to expedite skill acquisition of receptive object labels and other instructional programs, usually are not widely disseminated. The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate and exchange programming ideas that have been effective at teaching receptive object labels when published procedures have failed.

In terms of programming innovations, behavior reductive procedures usually results in an even greater degree of innovation. While practitioners and the general public tends to focus on consequences and reactive measures when reducing behaviors. We will discuss how creative proactive measures, differential reinforcement, and sensory matching have been effective when reactive measures were ineffective.

Additionally, workshop participants will be exposed to a refined methodology for making comparisons of two instructional procedures. With the relatively short window for early intervention it is crucial that interventions are both effective and efficient. This methodology allows practitioners to compare acquisition, maintenance and generalization for two procedures. A test of this methodology using serial (one objective in a program) and concurrent (multiple objectives in a program) objective sequencing for receptive, tact, and intraverbal programming will be presented.

CE: BACB, BBS

Fee: $35

CE: BACB

Fee: $35

• Determine the need for an experimental analysis
• Design experimental sessions for an individual
• Collect data using an experimental analysis data sheet
• Graphically display data collected from an experimental analysis
• Analyze data collected during an experimental analysis to determine function of a behavior

CE: BACB

Fee: $60

• Conduct and analyze assessment in the areas of reading, writing, spelling and math
• Determine academic scores on assessments to establish baseline performance for students
• Establish scope and sequence for yearly learning based on student assessment
• Develop and teach lessons in the areas of reading, writing, spelling and math to ensure that skill acquisition focuses on fluency and accuracy