CONFERENCE: Early registration deadline for October OR-ABA conference is September 1, 2010!

The Oregon Association for Behavior Analysis (ORABA)

Issues a reminder that the early registration deadline for discounted registration fees for the

1st Annual ORABA Conference
October 2nd, 2010
Shilo Inn Airport
11707 NE Airport Way,
Portland, OR 97220

is coming up quickly and that the early registration discount is until 

September 1, 2010!! 

Schedule

8am -9am-- Registration

9am-noon-- Key Note Speaker

Vincent J. Carbone, Ed.D, BCBA; Carbone Clinic

Noon-1:30pm-- Lunch Break

1:30pm-3:00pm-- Session I

John T. Rapp, Ph.D., BCBA-D  or 

Jane Howard, Ph.D., BCBA-D & Coleen Sparkman, MA, CCC-SLP

3:15pm- 4:45pm-- Session II

Allen Neuringer, Ph.D. or

Melanie Shaw, BCBA

5:00pm- 6:30pm-- Session III

Vincent J. Carbone Ed.D, BCBA or
Jennifer Knipling, BCBA

Early Registration Due September 1st, 2010

To download the brochure/registration form: pdf   or  MSWord

To download presenter biographies and
detailed descriptions of each session's presentations: pdf   or  MSWord

For questions or more information on the Conference, please contact ORABA President Sarah Schaefer, LPC, BCBA, .

For more information on ORABA, please see the ORABA website.

Thank you and we hope to see you October 2 in Portland!!

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Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

EVENT: Call for Presentations and Info on Nov. 4-6, 2010 International Precision Teaching Conference, Seattle, WA

An announcement about an upcoming event from the Standard Celeration Society,
a Special Interest Group of ABA International


Mark your calendar and tell your friends!

The Call for Presentations and a new informational flyer has been released for the 

23rd International Precision Teaching Conference

"Precision Teaching: Out of the Closet
and into the World of Education"

November 4-6, 2010 

Seattle, Washington.

To download Call for Presentations and Informational Flyer

Submission of Presentations will begin in mid-May at the Standard Celeration Society website
and conclude on July 15, 2010.
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The Standard Celeration Society, Morningside Academy, Organization for Research and Learning (O.R.L.), and Families for Effective Autism Treatment of Washington (FEAT-WA),

Present the
23rd Annual International Precision Teaching Conference (IPTC)
Precision Teaching: Out of the Closet and into the World of Education

When: November 4th, 5th, 6th, 2010

Where: SEATTLE, WA

Holiday Inn Seattle
211 Dexter Ave North
Seattle, WA 98109
Hotel Front Desk: 1-206-728-8123
Group Reservation Code: Morningside

Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) Type 2 credits available


Target Audience

• Students
• Teachers
• Parents
• Behavior analysts
• Principals and administrators
• College professors
• Staff developers
• Psychologists

Potential Topics

• Introduction to Precision Teaching (PT)
• Precision Teaching in public school settings
• Precision Teaching and autism intervention
• Use of the Standard Celeration Chart (SCC) in business and industry
• Basic and applied science of Precision Teaching
• The Standard Celeration Chart to measure student progress/achievement

Potential Presenters
People who

• Apply Precision Teaching in public education
• Use the Standard Celeration Chart (SCC) for Applied Behavior Analysis
• Run private Precision Teaching schools or learning centers
• Use Precision Teaching in college instruction
• Teach grad/undergrad students about Precision Teaching
• Use Precision Teaching in business and industry
• Develop curricula
• Precision Teaching for underserved populations

Preconference tours & workshops- Thursday November 4th, 2010

Visit: Morningside Academy, FEAT of Washington, or Academy for Precision Learning (APL)

Hope to see you in Seattle!
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Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

FYI: Name change for the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention

An email notice is currently circulating that the Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention (JEIBI) is changing its name to the Journal of Behavior Assessment and Intervention in children (JBAIC) in order to reflect the changing mission of the journal. A new ISSN number for the new title is pending.

Current and archived issues of JEIBI are still available through the website, and a new site is set up for when the transition to the JBAIC is completed.

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Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

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ANNOUNCE: Volume 5(1) of the Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis (JSLP-ABA) now available

Volume 5(1), January 12, 2010 of the peer-reviewed open access journal, Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis (JSLP-ABA) is now available at the Behavior Analysis Online website.

Table of Contents of volume 5(1):

Pg.: 1: Generic Instruction versus Intensive Tact Instruction and the Emission of Spontaneous Speech
- R. Douglas Greer& Lin Du

Pg.: 20: Effects of Multiple Exemplar Instruction on the Transformation of Stimulus Function Across Written and Vocal Spelling Responses by Students with Autism
- Carly M. Eby, R. Douglas Greer, Lisa D. Tullo, Katherine A. Baker & Rebecca Pauly

Pg.: 32: .AAC Interventions: Case study of In-utero Stroke.
- Cindy Geise Arroyo, Robert Goldfarb, Danielle Cahill, & Janet Schoepflin

Pg.: 48: Implications of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior for Studying Dementia
- Jeffrey A. Buchanan, Daniel Houlihan, & Peter J.N. Linnerooth

Pg.: 59: Using Skinner’s Model of Verbal Behavior Analysis to study Aggression in Psychiatric Hospitals
- Michael Daffern & Matthew Tonkin

Pg.: 70: Evaluation of Two Communicative Response Modalities for a Child with Autism and Self-Injury
- Stacy E. Danov, Ellie Hartman, Jennifer J. McComas, & Frank J. Symons

Pg.: 80: Using DRO, Behavioral Momentum,and Self-Regulation to Reduce Scripting by an Adolescent with Autism
- Vanessa Ann Silla-Zaleski & Mary J. Vesloski

Archived open-access volumes of JSLP-ABA are also available at the Behavior Analyst Online website, as well as,

• Behavior Analyst Today
• Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Interventions (JEIBI)
• International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy (IJBCT)
• Journal of Behavior Analysis in Health, Sports, Fitness and Medicine (JBAHSFM)
• Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim Treatment and Prevention (JOBA-OVTP)
• Behavioral Development Bulletin

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The Oregon Association for Behavior Analysis (OR-ABA) posts items only as a service to OR-ABA members and other interested persons. OR-ABA reserves the right to edit items submittedfor content, length, and style. OR-ABA will post only those event announcements that appear to be consistent with OR-ABA's statement of purpose, relevant laws, regulations, and ethical principles. OR-ABA's decision in this regard is final. These announcements should not construed as advertisements or endorsements of the products, services, or events described. OR-ABA cannot accept paid advertising on these pages. Announcements of commerical events or events with strong commercial tie-ins will be carefully evaluated for suitability. OR-ABA makes no representation of the accuracy of the events announcements, the quality of the events described, or suitability of any event or its intended use.
Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

SURVEY request on national ABA services for ASD from the Connecticut Center for Child Development

The Connecticut Center for Child Development, Inc. CCCD,  a non-profit organization providing educational services for individuals with autism spectrum disorders and their families located in Milford, CT, is currently gathering information through a short confidential survey on the availability of qualified providers of Applied Behavior Analytic (ABA) programming for people with autism throughout the country.

Suzanne Letso, MA, BCBA, CEO of CCCD sent out a reminder today on the parent survey that,
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"The autism survey will close on January 31, 2010 at 12:00 midnight. If you have not yet participated we invite you do so prior to the end of this month – the survey is for those that have and have not ever had a child participate in an ABA program.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could also forward this reminder to other parents who may not have taken this survey yet. 

 It is a very short survey and will take less than 5 minutes to complete and all responses are confidential.

Here is the link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ZKXRJBN  

We will post the results of this survey on our website, but if you would also like to receive the summary data from this survey please send us an email at  letso_AT_cccdinc.org. Summary data will be available in aggregate or by individual state basis.

Yours truly,
Suzanne Letso, M.A., BCBA
Chief Executive Officer
Connecticut Center for Child Development, Inc.
925 Bridgeport Ave.
Milford , CT 06460
(203) 882-8810
 www.cccdinc.org "

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NEWS: Pediatrics Article Reports Positive Results of Intervention Model for Toddlers with ASD

A story being reported on by  CNN, and  Time, as well as other media outlets in reference to the newly published (November 30) Pediatrics article,

Dawson, G., Rogers, S., Munson, J., Smith, M., Winter, J., Greenson, J., et. al. (2009). Randomized, controlled trial of an intervention for toddlers with autism: The Early Start Denver Model. Pediatrics, Published online November 30, 2009
(doi:10.1542/ peds.2009- 0958)

Link to the abstract; purchase required for full access.

"Objective  To conduct a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), a comprehensive developmental behavioral intervention, for improving outcomes of toddlers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Methods: Forty-eight children diagnosed with ASD between 18 and 30 months of age were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups: (1) ESDM intervention, which is based on developmental and applied behavioral analytic principles and delivered by trained therapists and parents for 2 years; or (2) referral to community providers for intervention commonly available in the community.

Results: Compared with children who received community-intervention, children who received ESDM showed significant improvements in IQ, adaptive behavior, and autism diagnosis. Two years after entering intervention, the ESDM group on average improved 17.6 standard score points (1 SD: 15 points) compared with 7.0 points in the comparison group relative to baseline scores. The ESDM group maintained its rate of growth in adaptive behavior compared with a normative sample of typically developing children. In contrast, over the 2-year span, the comparison group showed greater delays in adaptive behavior. Children who received ESDM also were more likely to experience a change in diagnosis from autism to pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified, than the comparison group.

Conclusions: This is the first randomized, controlled trial to demonstrate the efficacy of a comprehensive developmental behavioral intervention for toddlers with ASD for improving cognitive and adaptive behavior and reducing severity of ASD diagnosis. Results of this study underscore the importance of early detection of and intervention in autism."

Two of the authors of the study are from University of Washington Autism Center, Center on Human Development and Disability, and the Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon.

The main significances are the very young ages of the enrolled children and the experimental design of RCT; it should be noted that some need for longitudinal followup to see if gains are maintained is discussed in the last paragraph of the full study, and that while 7 of the 24 student treatment group improved to PDD-NOS classification, 2 of the students in the treatment group moved from PDD to an Autistic Disorder diagnosis as well during the course of the study. The overall effect described for the treatment group was of significant benefit compared to the "community based" comparison group and spoke to a potential general benefit of early application of ESDM at the intensity and competency of service delivery as described in the Pediatrics article.

Two quotes from the newsreporting,

CNN: "...[Sally] Rogers acknowledges that this study is only the first step. "Every piece of science needs to be replicated before it becomes fact, so we are currently doing a replication study," she said...."

Time: "...Whether the Early Start Denver Model will prove to be more effective than other therapies remains to be seen. Leading autism researcher Tristram Smith, an ABA expert at the University of Rochester, who lauds the new study for its methodological rigor, notes that the gains made by children in the intervention group were similar to those reported in studies of ABA models. "I do think there is a need for head-to-head studies," says Smith. Also needed is high-quality research on how to match individual children with the therapy that suits them best."

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Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers. 

NEWS: Behavioral Therapy Boosts Treatment of Serious Behavior Problems in Autism Compared to Medication Alone

For those interested in the use of medications, behavior therapy, the combination of both in treating serious behaviors in pervasive developmental disorders, and use of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in evaluating treatments, this article by Michelle Diament of Disability Scoop will be of interest. It describes study results that reported that the most effective results for treatment of problem behaviors in the study group of 4-13 year-olds with autism was a combination of parent training in use of behavioral therapy and medication vs. medication alone, with the improvements derived from parent training continued to increase over time. The research article itself will also be of interest; at the current time the article is available in free open access from the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's December issue.


A significant statement has been made by Thomas R. Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) regarding the results of this study,

“Medication alone has been shown to help with some symptoms of autism, but its potential is limited...This study shows promise of a more effective treatment protocol that could improve life for children with autism and their families."

ABA International members Eric Butter, Ph.D. and James A. Mulick, Ph.D. are two of the team of researchers who authored the research article.

Behavior Therapy Plus Medication Most Successful For Kids With Autism
By Michelle Diament
November 23, 2009
Disability Scoop 11/23/09

"Children with autism experienced fewer behaviors and needed less medication when their parents used behavior therapy in addition to medication, new research shows."

Aman, M.G., McDougle, C.J.,Scahill, L., Handen ,B., Arnold, L. E., et. al.(2009). Medication and parent training in children with pervasive developmental disorders and serious behavior problems: Results from a randomized clinical trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry,48(12),1143-1154.
doi: 10.1097/CHI. 0b013e3181bfd669

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Related:
NIMH Press Release
November 20, 2009
Parent Training Complements Medication for Treating Behavioral Problems in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

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EVENT REMINDER: This Friday, June 19: CLEARING THE AIR ABOUT ABA...and having fun doing it!

Just a last shout out for this coming Friday's presentation by OR-ABA members, Sarah Schaefer, LPC, BCBA and Mark Vogl (previous post on the talk).

Clearing the Air About ABA
...and having fun doing it!

Friday, June 19^th, 2009, from 9:00a – 12:00p at

The Jean Baton Swindells Resource Center for Children and Families

830 NE 47^th Avenue, Portland, 97213

Downloadable flyer

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Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

NEWS: U.S. Senate Bill 1169 introduced to expand autism treatment coverage under TRICARE

"On June 3, 2009 S. 1169 was introduced by Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand (NY), as the Senate-side companion resolution to the previously introduced H.R. 1600. Both bills would "amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the treatment of autism under TRICARE..."

Full article:
Monday, June 8, 2009 Practitioner Issues in Behavior Analysis SIG Blog

NEWS: Federal S. 1169 joins H.R. 1600 to provide for the treatment of autism under TRICARE

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EVENT: CLEARING THE AIR ABOUT ABA...and having fun as we do it!

Friday, June 19^th, 2009, from 9:00a – 12:00p at

The Jean Baton Swindells Resource Center for Children and Families

830 NE 47^th Avenue, Portland, 97213

Downloadable flyer

CLEARING THE AIR ABOUT

ABA…

And having fun as we do it!

Presenters: Sarah L. Schaefer, LPC, BCBA, www.advbehavioralconcepts.com

Mark Vogl, BS, Program Coordinator, CCI Enterprises

plus a special parent testimonial

Parents, professionals, and all “Anti-ABAers” are invited to join us while we present the truth and dispel the myths about

Applied Behavior Analysis

Families and professionals are often faced with various approaches to teach children with special needs. While there is a vast array of approaches, families encounter confusion and doubt about which approach will effectively teach children a new skill or reduce behaviors that interfere with learning. This presentation will present the science of applied behavior analysis while dispelling common misperceptions. It will clarify the basic principles of behavior analysis and how they may be applied to people with a wide variety of needs both in an intensive teaching and natural learning environment.

Friday, June 19^th, 2009, from
9:00a – 12:00p at

The Jean Baton Swindells Resource Center for Children and Families

830 NE 47^th Avenue, Portland, 97213

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The Oregon Association for Behavior Analysis (OR-ABA) posts items only as a service to OR-ABA members and other interested persons. OR-ABA reserves the right to edit items submittedfor content, length, and style. OR-ABA will post only those event announcements that appear to be consistent with OR-ABA's statement of purpose, relevant laws, regulations, and ethical principles. OR-ABA's decision in this regard is final. These announcements should not construed as advertisements or endorsements of the products, services, or events described. OR-ABA cannot accept paid advertising on these pages. Announcements of commerical events or events with strong commercial tie-ins will be carefully evaluated for suitability. OR-ABA makes no representation of the accuracy of the events announcements, the quality of the events described, or suitability of any event or its intended use.
Please visit our website to find out more about OR-ABA, our activities, monthly meetings and speakers.

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