Tri-State Webinar: Pivotal Response Treatment: Improving Academics in Children with Autism using PRT: Part 2 of 2

Description:

This webinar provides an overview of Pivotal Response Treatment® (PRT).  PRT is a research-based intervention for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). PRT® is a naturalistic intervention model derived from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).  PRT® targets pivotal areas of a child's development, such as motivation, responsivity to multiple cues, self-management, and social initiations. These skills are pivotal because they are the foundational behaviors upon which learners with ASD can make widespread and generalized improvements in many other areas. By targeting these critical behaviors, PRT® results in widespread, collateral improvements in communication, social, and behavioral domains. This information and more will be covered in this two-part series. 

Learner Objectives:

In Part 2 the learner will be:

• Introduced to the use of motivational procedures to teach academic skills
• Provided a review of research studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of motivational procedures for teaching academics
• Introduced to strategies that include motivational components to teach academic skills for a variety of learners.

Presenter Information:

Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel is the Clinical Director of Autism Services in the UCSB Autism Research Center and the Director of the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Center for Asperger’s Research, where she has been active in the development of programs to improve communication in children with autism, including the development of first words, grammatical structures, pragmatics, and social conversation. In addition to her published books and articles in the area of communication and language development, she has developed and published procedures and field manuals in the area of self-management and functional analysis that are used in school districts and by parents. Dr. Koegel is the author of Overcoming Autism and, most recently, Growing Up on the Spectrum with parent Claire LaZebnik.

Certificate of Completion:

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The webinars are listed by category and alphabetical order. The category for this webinar is Behavior. Subcategory Teaching Procedures.

See also, Pivotal Response Treatment: Overview: Part 1 of 2: https://ksdetasn.org/resources/1765