Resources

Collaboration is a high-leverage practice that contributes to success for students with disabilities. (McLeskey, J., et al., 2017 High-leverage practices in special education. Arlington, VA: Council for Exceptional Children & CEEDAR Center). What does that look like in Kansas classrooms? Moll...

 Shaping is a procedure used to reinforce successive approximations of a new (target) behavior in a person’s repertoire through differential reinforcement.  Approximation means a behavior that resembles the target behavior.  Successive approximations are steps toward the target behavior.  If a be...

Description: Transition Planning for Individuals with ASD is a four-part webinar series. In part 2: Targeting Skill for Adult Independence, Dr. Peter Gerhardt discuss:  The principles of positive reinforcement The priorities of instruction in transition programming (work/social/navigat...

An Equivalence Class is a group of stimuli that evoke the same behavior.  Learning a behavior in the presence of a stimulus that is a member of a stimulus class should generalize to other members in the stimulus class.  Stimulus relations include reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity.  Stimulus...

Webinar Description: In this presentation, Dr. Kisamore will discuss the importance of employment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and share research involving teaching problem solving for vocational tasks to adolescents and young adults whose skill sets necessitate supports and f...