Practical Implications of Strengthening Echoics and Self-Echoics matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in classrooms, school meetings, data review, and staff consultation. In Practical Implications of Strengthening Echoics and Self-Echoics, for this course, the practical stakes show up in feasible school-based support, stronger collaboration, and better student participation, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The echoic may be the most important verbal operant in terms of influencing the development of other verbal operants. According to the bidirectional naming account (Horne & Lowe, 1996; Miguel, 2016), when a child is told the name of an object (e.g., cup), the child echoes the word and will later tact and respond as a listener to the object. According to the joint control account (Causin et al., 2012; Lowenkron, 2006), a child will follow multi-step instructions if they echo the spoken multiple steps. This workshop will show participants how echoic behavior can be incorporated into a learner's curriculum to increase the efficiency of teaching procedures. We will systematically guide participants through a hierarchy of programs that require children to emit one-, two-, and three-word echoics and self-echoics to successfully learn complex auditory-visual conditional discriminations (AVCD). We will demonstrate several strategies to extend the length of the echoic from one or two words to three and four words. Real case examples will be explored, and step-by-step procedures will be shared.
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Olga Meleshkevich is the Founder and Executive Director of the MelеSchool, an on–line school where she teaches parents and professionals about behavior analysis. Olga has been working in the field of ABA as a practicing Behavior Analyst since 2003. She obtained her Master degree in Psychology from Moscow State University and her master degree in ABA from Northeastern University. Olga is currently a doctoral candidate studying behavior analysis at Simmons University. Her research interests include verbal behavior. Olga specializes in designing interventions that facilitate the emergence of novel, untrained verbal responses. She has publications in JABA and JEAB and presented her work at local and national conferences.
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