GWEITHRED

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‘Helping parents of children with Special Needs to help themselves’

A one day course giving an overview of practical evidence based data driven strategies based on the principles of ABA to help improve your child’s communicative and educational ability

Date:Saturday28th April 2012

Time:9.30 am to 5.30 pm

Venue:Meriden Suite, Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre Hotel

  1. Objective

For delegates to leave the day having learnt what ABA is and how specific practical (‘hands on’) behavioural principles and programmes can help improve their child’s communicative and educational ability. Additionally, for delegates to be aware of how and where they can go for more practical guidance and support.

  1. Who is the course for?

The course hasbeen designed for parents, guardians and other (adult) family members who wish to learn how to use behaviourally based strategies and interventions to help their children with their communication and educational needs.

  1. What you will learn

As a result of this course you will be able to:

  • Understand what ABA is and how it can help you and your child
  • Implement tried and tested behavioural programmes
  • Initiate simple everyday strategies in the home to help your child
  • Understand the importance of measuring your child’s progress and learn basic data collection techniques
  • Understand where you can go for more practical guidance and support.
  1. About us

Gweithredworkwith children with SEN, their parents / guardians and family members as well as allied education and health professionals to bring about realistic and measurable improvements in children’s communicative and educational ability. All ourinterventions aregrounded in the principles of ABA and have been used successfully with hundreds of children.

  1. Course Trainers

Bethan Mair Williams is a senior specialist speech and language therapist with 16 years of experience of working in the public and private sector with children and adults with Special Needs. In 2010, she completed her MSc in ABA at Bangor University, the first university in Europe to offer this course. She is an honorary research fellow of the university and maintains a close working relationship with the Wales Centre for Behaviour Analysis which is also based there. Bethan is a guest lecturer at the university, contributes to ongoing ABA based projects and supervises MSc in ABA research. She presents at national and international conferences and has contributed to articles published in peer reviewed journals.

Beverley Ann Jonesis a freelance ABA supervisor/consultant with 15 years of experience working in the public and private sector with children on school and home based behavioural programmes. In recent years she has specialised in working with children with higher level language and communication disorders although she also has several years experience of

working on intensive early intervention programmes. In 2009, she graduated from Bangor University with an MSc in ABA and, like Bethan she maintains a close working relationship with the Wales Centre for Behaviour Analysis. Beverley contributes to ongoing ABA based projects and presents at national and international conferences. She has written and contributed to articles published in peer reviewed journals.

  1. Course Schedule and Content

09:30 -10:00Introduction and Overview

  • Introduction – who we are and delegates
  • What is ABA – day’s overview

10:00 -11:00Motivation and Reinforcement and Pairing

11:00 -11:15Tea/Coffee Break

11:15 -12:45Understanding and using long and short term temporal concepts

  • Timetimers and Organised Mumcalendars
  • Interactive diaries and TALC assessment

12:45 -13:45Lunch

13:45 -15:15SAFMEDS and Precision Teaching

  • The science of Precision Teaching
  • How to implement SAFMEDS
  • Practical demonstrations and brainstorming

15:15 -15:30Tea/Coffee Break

15:30 -16:30Other practical maths, language and literacy resources

  • Numicon
  • Teach Your Children Well
  • Language for Thinking
  • Headsprout

16:30 - 17:15Brief mention of other strategies, interventions and resources

  • Problem behaviour management
  • Social Skills training
  • TAGteach
  • Direct Instruction
  • Comprehensive assessment

17:15 - 17:30Wrap-up Session

  • Summary and conclusions
  • Next steps – guidance and support
  1. Reservation procedure and cost

The course is for one day starting at 9.30 am and will end at 5.30 pm. Delegates are responsible for their own travel and accommodation costs.Gweithredwill provide morning and afternoon tea/coffee and a buffet lunch for delegates. Handouts and information relevant to the day’s content will also be distributed. The course is limited to 25 places and as a result, reservations will be made on a first come first served basis. To secure your place please complete the attached Reservation Form and return it with a cheque for £150 to the address on the Reservation Form. The closing date for reserving a place is Wednesday 28th March 2012, subject to availability.

  1. Course venue and directions

We have selected a central UK located Hotel in which to provide this course with easy road and rail access.The Holiday Inn Birmingham City Centre Hotel is a 3 minute walk (0.1 mile) from Birmingham New Street railway station. If driving, leave the M6 at Junction 6. Take the A38M to the City Centre. Bear left after the flyover and 2 underpasses. Take the second turning on your left into Sufflock Place and first right into St Judes Passage to the rear of the hotel. Should you decide to stay the night, the hotel has 241 rooms and booking can be made by phoning the hotel front desk on 0121 634 6200 or online at

Reservation Form

The cost of the course is £150per delegate.Please send your completed Reservation Form along with a cheque for £150 (made payable to GWEITHRED) by the closing date of Wednesday 28th March 2012 to the following address:

Gweithred

Arddol

Dolydd

Caernarfon

Gwynedd

LL54 7EF

We will confirm your reservation on the course via email

(Please use block capitals)

First name(s):

LAYLA

Last name:

ELLIS

Address:

31A WESTERN ROAD, READING, RG1 6PD

Telephone:

07861 726405

Mobile:

07861 726405

E-mail:

To help us to better meet your needs, please answer the following two questions:

  1. Why are you registering for this course?

I have a 5 year old son who has just completed a 2 year early intervention (VB/ABA) programme & is very verbal though still delayed, particularly with receptive language. He is socially motivated & I’m looking for ideas of what to do next. My son is fully home educated.

  1. What do you hope to a.) learn and b.) achieve by attending this course?

I’m particularly interested in the learning how to teach temporal concepts & using Language for Thinking. My son is now reasonably receptive to & compliant with direct instruction & I’m looking forward to learning how to maximise the effectiveness of his teaching time. I feel that he has language difficulties which have not been addressed by any intervention he has had so far (either ABA or SALT). I would like to know who (which professional) I need to find to have this properly assessed & to put together an intervention plan.

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