Training
BCBA CEU's
11/28/11 08:54
I am very pleased to announce the arrival of the Forest City Behavior Continuing Education website!
We have been involved in offering training on-site and through this website on a variety of topics for several years. One of our long-term goals has been to bring longer-form, comprehensive training (CEU's) to Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA's) and Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts (BCaBA's) in an easy to use, convenient format that eliminates the hassle and costs associated with traveling to trainings.
That goal has been accomplished.
There are three courses available on the website now, including:
Additional trainings on other topic areas are already in production and will be arriving at the website soon.
We look forward to training with you!
We have been involved in offering training on-site and through this website on a variety of topics for several years. One of our long-term goals has been to bring longer-form, comprehensive training (CEU's) to Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA's) and Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts (BCaBA's) in an easy to use, convenient format that eliminates the hassle and costs associated with traveling to trainings.
That goal has been accomplished.
There are three courses available on the website now, including:
- Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Autism: Diagnosis and Treatment
- Autism: School Eligibility vs. Medical Diagnosis
Additional trainings on other topic areas are already in production and will be arriving at the website soon.
We look forward to training with you!
Ask the Behavior Analyst
04/02/11 11:45
Forest City Behavior, in cooperation with The Autism Program (TAP) at Easter Seals in Rockford has the following training opportunity coming up:
Ask the Behavior Analyst is a family oriented seminar that we offer periodically for families of children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
This is an open-ended forum in which family members can ask questions about behavioral and developmental challenges and concerns that they may be experiencing. I really enjoy these events, as I get an opportunity to hear about the issues that others may be dealing with. In addition, because it's an open seminar, we often find that challenges that one family is experiencing have been solved by another, and it offers an opportunity to share that experience. I often get to learn new things as well as offering suggestions myself.
To get more information or to register please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5566.
Also - thanks very much to the folks who attended both the professional and parents sessions of School Eligibility v. Medical Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders on March 15th and 22nd. There were many good questions and a lot of good discussion.
Ask the Behavior Analyst is a family oriented seminar that we offer periodically for families of children and adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
This is an open-ended forum in which family members can ask questions about behavioral and developmental challenges and concerns that they may be experiencing. I really enjoy these events, as I get an opportunity to hear about the issues that others may be dealing with. In addition, because it's an open seminar, we often find that challenges that one family is experiencing have been solved by another, and it offers an opportunity to share that experience. I often get to learn new things as well as offering suggestions myself.
To get more information or to register please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5566.
Also - thanks very much to the folks who attended both the professional and parents sessions of School Eligibility v. Medical Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders on March 15th and 22nd. There were many good questions and a lot of good discussion.
Upcoming Trainings
02/26/11 07:56
Forest City Behavior, in cooperation with The Autism Program (TAP) at Easter Seals in Rockford has two training opportunities coming up:
School Eligibility v. Medical Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders will be presented in two sessions. The first will be oriented towards educators and treatment professionals from 10:00 AM - 12:00 N on March 15th, 2011 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford. CPDU's are available for this training. BCBA and BCaBA CEU's are available. E.I. Credits are pending.
The second session will be oriented towards parents, guardians, and loved ones who care for children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. That session will be offered on March 22nd from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, again at the University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford.
Many of the parents and family members we work with find themselves in the confusing situation of having a child who has been given a medical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) but then finding that they don't meet qualification for special education services on an autism qualification. We also work with families who have been told by school personnel that their child does meet an ASD special education qualification, but being told by medical professionals that the child does not qualify for a medical diagnosis. This is often further confused because the word "diagnosis" is often used for both situations.
This complication often leads to misunderstanding, hurt feelings, and frustration for all involved. We've put together this training to help explain and clarify the differences.
To get more information or to register for either training session please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5566.
In addition to the Forest City Behavior training sessions, the Rockford TAP program also has their New Diagnosis Family Orientation coming up on Saturday, March 26th 2011. This training is oriented towards family members who have recently had a child diagnosed with an ASD. If you are interested in this training please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5561.
School Eligibility v. Medical Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorders will be presented in two sessions. The first will be oriented towards educators and treatment professionals from 10:00 AM - 12:00 N on March 15th, 2011 at the University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford. CPDU's are available for this training. BCBA and BCaBA CEU's are available. E.I. Credits are pending.
The second session will be oriented towards parents, guardians, and loved ones who care for children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. That session will be offered on March 22nd from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, again at the University of Illinois College of Medicine - Rockford.
Many of the parents and family members we work with find themselves in the confusing situation of having a child who has been given a medical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) but then finding that they don't meet qualification for special education services on an autism qualification. We also work with families who have been told by school personnel that their child does meet an ASD special education qualification, but being told by medical professionals that the child does not qualify for a medical diagnosis. This is often further confused because the word "diagnosis" is often used for both situations.
This complication often leads to misunderstanding, hurt feelings, and frustration for all involved. We've put together this training to help explain and clarify the differences.
To get more information or to register for either training session please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5566.
In addition to the Forest City Behavior training sessions, the Rockford TAP program also has their New Diagnosis Family Orientation coming up on Saturday, March 26th 2011. This training is oriented towards family members who have recently had a child diagnosed with an ASD. If you are interested in this training please contact the TAP Program at Easter Seals Rockford at: (815) 395-5561.
How to Save from iPad to Dropbox - A Task Analysis
08/15/10 10:33
As regular readers will already be aware, Forest City Behavior is primarily an Apple Shop. We run Macintosh computers and Apple software for nearly all of our computing needs. This was a decision born in large part out of the discovery, once I had a Mac, that we were spending far, far less time on network and other maintenance issues than we were in our Windows PC days.
Given this, it will likely be no surprise that your humble author found himself in line for an iPad on the day of its release. As much of our work is done on-site, we travel extensively. The iPad presents the opportunity to leave behind the laptop, and as such it considerably lightens the load both in terms of weight and bulk. I rarely need to take my MacBook with me any more.
I absolutely love my iPad, but it is not without it's shortcomings. One of the more glaring deficits is that there is no simple way to save something from one application to a separate location, e.g. the way you would save a document to a hard drive, flash drive, network drive, etc. The iPad's operating system (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPod Touch) only allows applications to save within themselves. There is a Dropbox app for the iPad, but there is no direct way to save from your word processor to that application.
This was a problem for us as we make extensive use of Dropbox for sharing files and ensuring that we have access to what we need from anywhere we may be. As is often the case, there is a workaround, but it's a little geeky and it takes multiple steps. I've explained it to several people, and I'm often surprised at how complicated it is (this is a very non-Apple sort of problem).
However, we are behavior analysts around here, and teaching complicated tasks in a step-by-step fashion is part of our stock in trade, so I thought it would be helpful for folks to have a task analysis on how to accomplish it. That task analysis can be found here, or by clicking the tab for it in our header.
Given this, it will likely be no surprise that your humble author found himself in line for an iPad on the day of its release. As much of our work is done on-site, we travel extensively. The iPad presents the opportunity to leave behind the laptop, and as such it considerably lightens the load both in terms of weight and bulk. I rarely need to take my MacBook with me any more.
I absolutely love my iPad, but it is not without it's shortcomings. One of the more glaring deficits is that there is no simple way to save something from one application to a separate location, e.g. the way you would save a document to a hard drive, flash drive, network drive, etc. The iPad's operating system (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPod Touch) only allows applications to save within themselves. There is a Dropbox app for the iPad, but there is no direct way to save from your word processor to that application.
This was a problem for us as we make extensive use of Dropbox for sharing files and ensuring that we have access to what we need from anywhere we may be. As is often the case, there is a workaround, but it's a little geeky and it takes multiple steps. I've explained it to several people, and I'm often surprised at how complicated it is (this is a very non-Apple sort of problem).
However, we are behavior analysts around here, and teaching complicated tasks in a step-by-step fashion is part of our stock in trade, so I thought it would be helpful for folks to have a task analysis on how to accomplish it. That task analysis can be found here, or by clicking the tab for it in our header.
Training Ahead!
06/03/10 06:25
It's been busy times for training in the Forest City of late.
Our Why Do They Do That? series providing an overview of basic behavioral theory and how it is used in conducting a functional behavioral was offered in two sessions - one for professionals, and the other for parents - in cooperation with The Autism Program (TAP) at Easter Seals in Rockford last month. We'll be doing an additional session for the staff at the Ryan Jury Child Development Learning Center coming up June 22nd, 2010.
Coming up this weekend I will be presenting at the College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine CE/CME Program and Open House at Rockford. The topic for Saturday's talk is Identifying Clinical Treatments in Autism, geared towards helping medical and other professionals understand the different types of Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnoses and providing an overview of recent research evaluating different treatments for the disorder.
The program starts at 8:00 AM at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, found at 1601 Parkview Avenue in Rockford, IL. Yours truly will be talking at 10:15 AM. The full flier can be found at the University's website.
Functional Assessment in Sycamore
07/01/09 07:04
The nice folks at Opportunity House in Sycamore, Illinois graciously hosted me for a training in functional assessment yesterday. There were lots of good questions asked during the question and answer session, which always makes a training more fun and interesting to present.
As with our other recent training sessions, I'm posting the slides here and in the sidebar at right for anyone who wants to look through them.
The staff at Forest City Behavior provide multiple training presentations each year on a variety of topics related to autism, developmental disabilities, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and other behavioral treatments, psychiatric treatment for people with DD. If you are interested in having a member of our team come to your site to talk, please feel free to contact us.
As with our other recent training sessions, I'm posting the slides here and in the sidebar at right for anyone who wants to look through them.
The staff at Forest City Behavior provide multiple training presentations each year on a variety of topics related to autism, developmental disabilities, Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and other behavioral treatments, psychiatric treatment for people with DD. If you are interested in having a member of our team come to your site to talk, please feel free to contact us.
Functional Assessment Screencast
05/24/09 13:34
Functional Assessment or How to Get Your Behavior Programs to Work was the first online training slideshow that we completed here at Forest City Behavior when we started down the road of putting training online. When the site was re-designed, some items were temporary casualties of the process.
I'm pleased to announce that this training presentation is back. You can click here for the link or find the link for the training presentation in the sidebar at the right.
The Functional Assessment training is an overview of the process of completing a comprehensive functional assessment, interpreting the results and, most importantly, translating the results into a behavior treatment program or plan. It should be helpful for anyone beginning to address behavioral needs.
I'm pleased to announce that this training presentation is back. You can click here for the link or find the link for the training presentation in the sidebar at the right.
The Functional Assessment training is an overview of the process of completing a comprehensive functional assessment, interpreting the results and, most importantly, translating the results into a behavior treatment program or plan. It should be helpful for anyone beginning to address behavioral needs.
Mental Illiness & Developmental Disabilities
05/06/09 09:05
Yesterday I was in McHenry, Illinois, giving a presentation on assessment and treatment of people who are dually diagnosed at the request of the McHenry County Mental Health Board. Wendy and the rest of the folks from the MHB were very nice, as was the audience, with lots of good questions and discussion which always makes a presentation more fun to deliver.
I've posted the slides at this link because I understand that there was some difficulty reading some of the smaller print on a couple of the slides. Enjoy!
I've posted the slides at this link because I understand that there was some difficulty reading some of the smaller print on a couple of the slides. Enjoy!
