Date: Sunday, February 25, 2018 Time: 1:00 pm -4:00 pm eastern
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Part I. Blended Interventions: Parents and practitioners are tired of being required to choose a highly structured early behavioral intervention, e.g. “Lovaas” or a more loosely organized approach (e.g. “Pivotal Response Training”). Blended intervention combines structured and incidental naturalistic
Part II: Promoting Parent Buy-In: Parents have a great deal at stake in selecting an early intervention approach for their children with autism. This presentation will focus on some of the reasons parents have reservations about adopting behavioral interventions, and how behavioral practitioners can address their concerns. Some issues are lack of accurate information and unrealistic expectations, while others are due to ineffective ways of some practitioners in interacting with parents and responding to their worries. At times practitioners ask parents to adopt procedures that seem counterintuitive, without careful consideration of parents’ perspectives. The last part of the presentation will discuss several specific strategies for promoting more parental participation and acceptance of concepts and procedures that can be very helpful to their children.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this event participants should be able to:
1) Define blended interventions and identify which combination of strategies are appropriate based on individual needs
2) Describe the research supporting the use of blended interventions
3) List reasons why some parents have reservations about behavioral interventions
4) Describe strategies that may promote more parental participation
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1:00 pm: Introduction
1:05 pm: Pretest
1:10 pm: Presentation begins
2:30 pm: 10 minute break
2:40 pm: First Q&A Session- submit questions via chat
2:50 pm: Presentation resumes
3:45 pm: Q&A submit questions for chat
4:00 pm: Posttest, Evaluation and submit attendance codes
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Dr. Travis Thompson completed a doctorate in psychology with subspecialties in behavior
analysis, neuroscience, child psychology and developmental disabilities. He has worked in
medical settings as well as psychology departments and behavior analysis clinics most of
his career (at Univ of Minnesota, Vanderbilt Univ. and Univ of Kansas Medical Center). As
a doctoral student, he completed most of the first year of medical school course work and
later directed a psychopharmacology training program at the Univ of Minnesota. He
co-directed a major multiple disability research program at Vanderbilt University dealing
with genetic contributions to disabilities. He worked in the Pediatric Clinical
Neuroscience Autism Clinic at the University of Minnesota and directed a private
community based early behavioral intervention program in Minneapolis, MN. His
expertise includes working with complex cases of multiply caused severe behavior
challenges in autism and other developmental disabilities. He is a licensed psychologist in
Minnesota.
Dr. Thompson is author, co-author and/or editor of books that are mentioned during some of his
presentations for ABAC. He receives royalties from the sale of the books. He also receives speaker
fees for presenting for ABAC.
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