The Skill of Talk. Teaching Conversation Fluency to Learners with Social Communication Challenges through Staff Mediated Intervention belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter school teams and classroom routines.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Georgia Association for Behavior Analysis
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Join Free →Conversation skills are critical no matter the subject matter or environment. It is the verbal integration of cognitive-linguistic and social cognition. It is also a rhythmic dance of fluency that has evaded interventionists across disciplines. In this, workshop participants will be (re) introduced to Keep the Conversation Going, a curriculum for teaching social cognition and conversation fluency in school-age learners. In addition, the design of a single case research study that focuses on procedural fidelity of this staff mediated intervention and conversation fluency outcomes of child participants will be explored.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Landria Seals Green is a dually certified Speech-Language Pathologist and Board Certified Behavior Analyst with over twenty years experience. She is a former clinical therapy practice owner who sold her company in 2020. She is currently working as a founder and consultant while pursing a PhD full-time at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in special education. Landria has been a speaker for over ten years and has interests in training and development, organization behavior management, social communication, clinical quality, and telepractice.Undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with graduate coursework completed at Northwestern University. Education in Applied Behavior Analysis completed at FIT and University of North Texas. Landria is from the Southside of Chicago, lived in Connecticut and Michigan for a number of years. She now resides in Illinois with her husband Alfred and their children Adam and Alison.
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