ABA Treatment for Parents, Teachers, Psychologists, Students
What you'll learn
- How to develop and implement effective intervention strategies for a child with autism
- How to prepare, arrange, and organize educational materials, as well as the treatment setting, prior to starting the program and throughout all phases
- How to assess behavioral deficits and excesses, construct educational programs and analyze the child's progress during treatment
- How to motivate a child with autism during intervention, ensuring a fun and productive educational environment
- How to select the best teaching techniques to shape new behavior
- How to define what you should do when you begin intervention and what tasks should be introduced as the child makes progress
- How to deal with, and effectively manage, problem behavior
- How to implement intervention at home and encourage parents to become part of the treatment team
- How to plan for the generalization of skills acquired during treatment
Requirements
- The course is open to anyone looking to acquire knowledge and reliable information that is supported by scientific research and years of successful experience
Description
We invite you to take part in our online training courses, designed to share information and practical knowledge about designing effective treatment programs for children with autism, based on the science of Applied Behavior Analysis.
The course consists of 33 episodes that show you, step by step, how to plan, organize, and implement intervention for a child with autism. We have selected the areas of theory and practice that we believe to be the most important and have presented them in a simple, straightforward manner.
The series begins by presenting the characteristics and core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders. This is followed by a discussion of the most effective forms of treatment to address those characteristics. You will learn how to determine the deficit areas in your student, design and implement intervention strategies, and verify their effectiveness. Information is presented that will show you how to arrange the teaching space, select teaching materials, and create an effective motivational system. In addition, you will gain information about specific teaching techniques that have been proven to be effective through scientific research. The courses will help you to identify which educational programs you should use at the beginning of intervention and which areas should be developed next. In addition, you will learn strategies for effectively dealing with problem behavior to ensure the child’s success.
While this platform is dedicated to specialists working with children with autism, it has a much broader use. The strategies described herein can be applied by not only teachers and therapists, but also parents, grandparents and other family members. Although the course describes intervention with children, the presented methods can be just as effectively used while working with adolescents and adults. Finally, although we are experts in the treatment of children with autism, the applied behavior analysis strategies presented throughout the course can be implemented to achieve the same effective outcomes when treating children and adolescents with other developmental disabilities.
Who this course is for:
- Teachers working in kindergartens and throughout schools
- Preschool educators
- Therapists
- Speech therapists
- Psychologists
- Educators
- Parents
- Family members of children with developmental disorders - grandparents, siblings, etc.
- Guardians of children with developmental disorders
- Anyone interested in supporting children with development disorders
Instructor
Dr Anna Budzińska, dyrektor Instytutu Wspomagania Rozwoju Dziecka. Ukończyła psychologię na Wydziale Nauk Społecznych na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim w 1993 roku. W 2006 roku A. Budzińska obroniła na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim pierwszą w Polsce pracę doktorską na temat skuteczności terapii behawioralnej w pracy z dziećmi z autyzmem, której promotorem była prof. Marta Bogdanowicz.
W 1993 roku rozpoczęła pracę w Ośrodku dla Dzieci i Młodzieży z Autyzmem w Gdańsku. W lutym 1996 roku A. Budzińska otrzymała stypendium naukowe w Instytucie Psychologii Uniwersytetu w Oslo, gdzie opiekunem naukowym był prof. Arne Brekstad. Staż praktyczny odbyła w ośrodku wczesnej interwencji dla dzieci z autyzmem: Tidlig Intervensjons Prosjektet i Oslo (TIPO) oraz w Kapellveien Treatment Center w Oslo. A. Budzińska nawiązała ścisłą współpracę ze specjalistami z Norwegii i odwiedziła wiele placówek terapeutycznych w Norwegii. Od 2000 roku podnosiła swoje kwalifikacje zawodowe w Princeton Child Development Institute w USA, a w 2004 roku odbyła tam roczny staż szkoleniowy, którego celem był rozwój umiejętności terapeutycznych i kierowniczych. Na zakończenie stażu w PCDI Anna Budzińska zdała pozytywnie ewaluację profesjonalną przeprowadzoną przez dr Lynn E. McClannahan i dr Patricia J. Krantz. W maju 2006 roku obroniła pracę doktorską na temat „Dynamika rozwoju komunikacji werbalnej dzieci z autyzmem poddanych terapii behawioralnej - badania longitudinalne” W 2006 roku przy wsparciu Fundacji Barbary Piaseckiej Johnson, PCDI i Miasta Gdańska powstał Instytut Wspomagania Rozwoju Dziecka w Gdańsku (IWRD), będący pierwszą w Europie repliką PCDI, którego do dziś jest dyrektorem. Od początku swojej działalności dr A. Budzińska pomaga w tworzeniu placówek dla dzieci z autyzmem na terenie całego kraju, które funkcjonują jako „placówki rekomendowane przez IWRD”.Jest promotorką programów wczesnej interwencji oraz stosowania terapii opartej na badaniach naukowych. W ramach współpracy z Uniwersytetem Gdańskim współorganizuje międzynarodowe sympozja naukowe, ponadto prowadzi zajęcia na studiach podyplomowych "Wczesne wspomaganie, edukacja i terapia dzieci z zaburzeniami rozwoju" oraz jest kierownikiem merytorycznym studiów podyplomowych „Stosowana analiza zachowania: terapia spektrum zaburzeń autystycznych”, akredytowanych przez Radę Certyfikacyjną Analityków Zachowania (The Behavior Analyst Certification Board, BACB). Współpracuje z wieloma ośrodkami w Europie, prowadząc wykłady, szkolenia i superwizje (np. w Norwegii, Austrii, Słowacji, Włoszech). Wraz z Uniwersytetem w Oslo współprowadzi badania naukowe, które są jednocześnie pracami doktorskimi pracowników IWRD. Swoje doświadczenia zawodowe prezentuje także podczas konferencji naukowych w kraju i zagranicą. Jest autorką licznych artykułów oraz rozdziałów książek.
Dr Anna Budzińska is Director of the Institute for Child Development. She graduated from the Institute of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Gdansk in 1993. She earned her doctorate from the Instutute of Psychology of the University of Gdansk in 2006, presenting the first in Poland dissertation on the efficacy of the therapy for children with ASD based on the applied behavior analysis.
In 1993 she started to work at the Center for Children and Youth with Autism in Gdansk. She received scientific scholarship of the Institute of Psychology of the University of Oslo in 1996 and accomplished professional training at the early intervention for children with autism centers: Tidlig Intervensjons Prosjektet in Oslo andKapellveien Treatment Center in Oslo. In the framework of the cooperation with Norwegian partners, she visited many institutions providing support services for individuals with ASD in Norway. She visited Princeton Child Development Institute several times for professional training starting from 2000. In 2004 she spent a 1-year-internship in PCDI focused on advancement of professional and management skills. She gained positive evaluation of her internship by PCDI directors dr Lynn E. McClannahan and dr Patricia J. Krantz, which was the provision for launching PCDI dissemination site in Poland. Institute for Child Development (IWRD) in Gdansk, the first European dissemination site of the PCDI was founded in 2006, supported by Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation, PCDI and the City of Gdansk. Dr A. Budzinska has been director of IWRD since its founding. She has been promoting and supporting creation of new institutions providing science-based interventions for children with ASD in Poland and abroad, known as „institutions recommended by IWRD”. She cooperates with the University of Gdansk, giving lectures for postgraduate courses on early intervention and ABA (authorised by BACB), training students and coorganising international scientific symposiums on ASD related issues. She has been dedicated to training of therapists, trainers and supervisors. She is commited to promoting early intervention programs and science-based interventions for individuals with ASD both nationally and internationally (i.a. Norway, Slovakia, Austria, Italy). She is author of multiple publications and book chapters.