Enhanced Milieu Teaching: A Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Whose Time Has Come belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter language assessment, teaching sessions, caregiver coaching, and natural communication routines. In Enhanced Milieu Teaching: A Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention Whose Time Has Come, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clearer case conceptualization, better instructional targets, and stronger generalization, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Florida Association of Behavior Analysis
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Join Free →This workshop will provide information about Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT), a Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Intervention (NDBI) that facilitates early learner's language and communication skills. With 30 years of research across more than 50 studies, EMT has an extensive evidence base. EMT addresses issues often observed with more traditional ABA including limited generalization, escape-avoidance, maladaptive behavior, prompt dependency and lack of spontaneity in client responses. Additionally, EMT can be more time efficient than traditional ABA models, with children exhibiting significant language improvements in as little as 10 minutes per day. Improvements were also noted in play and social skills. EMT is not only a viable, effective intervention but a socially valid approach whose day has come. The workshop will be highly participatory with opportunities to actually practice EMT strategies with feedback from the workshop leader who is a co-developer of EMT. All participants will receive an EMT workbook that includes resources needed to effectively implement this intervention.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 4 | General |
| COA | 4 | — |
| FL MH/PSY | 4 | — |
Terry Blackmon, PhD is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst- Doctoral Level and a licensed Developmental Psychologist. She founded Language and Assessment Services (LASS) in 2017. In her position as owner of LASS she has provided clinical oversight to ABA companies, consulted with funders on medical necessity criteria, provided training on language/communication skills and effective intervention strategies, and supervised behavioral staff. She has a wealth of experience in the field of autism as her career has taken her from Early Childhood Special Education faculty at Vanderbilt University, Professor of Autism and Research in Texas State University’s ABA program and varied clinical appointments that include Director of Behavioral Services at a state residential treatment program for individuals with disabilities and a Clinical Vice President of a large ABA company. She is most well known as a co-developer of Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT), a naturalistic language model that has been highly effective with young language learners, including those with autism. She has written numerous articles on this intervention, parent training model, as well as, co-authored the book Early Intervention for Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Dig into the research behind this topic — plain-English summaries written for BCBAs.
280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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