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| Eyes, Ears, and Thoughts Up Front: Teaching Generative Attending Skills Across the Spectrum |
| Friday, May 22, 2020 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| To Be Determined |
| Area: VBC/AUT; Domain: Applied Research |
| CE Instructor: Richard E. Laitinen, Ph.D. |
| RICHARD E. LAITINEN (Personalized Accelerated Learning Systems (PALS)), GLADYS WILLIAMS (CIEL, SPAIN), SARA POLGAR (David Gregory School ) |
| Description: One defining characteristic of individuals labeled as having Autism Spectrum Disorder (F84.0) is a tendency to attend to a limited subset of environmental events participating in simple and complex contingencies of reinforcement ((Lovaas, Schreibman, Koegel, & Rhem, 1971). Limited attending repertoires restrict the type, range and potential for jointly acting sensory modalities to control and influence responding (cf, Brown & Bebko, 2012). Seeking to understand and affect the acquisition of various constellations of compound stimulus control, ABA researchers (e.g., Holth, 2005; Pelaez, 2009) have focused on identifying and remediating deficits and delays in the acquisition of simple and complex attending, joint attending and social referencing competencies (DeQuinzio, Poulson, Townsend, & Taylor, 2016). Important to today’s workshop is that “attentional” deficits and weaknesses can be remediated (Gewirtz & Palaez-Nogueras, 1992b; Luke & Greer, 2008), they can be decomposed into component/composite relations (Alessi, 1989; Binder, 2010), and attentional capacities and competencies are critical to the subsequent learning of new and higher order operants (Greer & Speckman, 2009). |
| Learning Objectives: 1. Contingently analyze attending behaviors 2. Identify component/composite relations Design conditioning contingencies to affect attending as a valued response. 3. To describe how attentional competencies and capabilities establish a foundation for the development of basic and advanced listener repertoires. 4. To describe how listener and speaker repertoires can be joined and generalized to promote incidental learning. |
| Activities: Combined lecture, discussion, and small group break out |
| Audience: Intermediate |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| Keyword(s): Generative Instruction, Joint Attention, Visual Regard, Visual Tracking |