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| Assessing and Teaching Functional Skills to Children With Autism in Home, School, and Community Settings |
| Saturday, May 26, 2012 |
| 8:00 AM–11:00 AM |
| 2B (Convention Center) |
| Area: AUT/EDC; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Michael M. Mueller, Ph.D. |
| JAMES W. PARTINGTON (Behavior Analysts, Inc.), MICHAEL M. MUELLER (Stimulus Publications) |
| Description: This workshop will describe the assessment and teaching of functional skills in children with autism. Functional skills will be discussed in terms of how they differ from basic conceptual skills on several levels that include when, where, and why functional skills are demonstrated, as well as the immediate benefit to the child. Children with autism require learning sequences and teaching curricula in various "everyday" aspects of their lives. These useful and necessary functional life skills are naturally clustered into skills used at school, in the community, at home, and skills that impact all aspects of life. Within these broad skill cluster areas, 31 specific skill groupings have been identified. This workshop will present information on the assessment of these specific skill groupings. The results of the assessment of functional skills will be useful for understanding which skills are required to enable independence within any given skill area. Next, using the assessment results to establish teaching sequences for functional learning programs will be discussed. Finally, specific strategies for teaching certain functional skills will be taught. |
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
Identify the differences between functional and basic/conceptual skills
Identify four broad skill clusters of functional skills
Identify and assess 31 specific skill groupings of functional skills
Choose initial instructional skills for teaching functional skills
Identify methods to teach functional skills in various settings
Identify methods to measure and track progress of functional skills from initial assessment and throughout the teaching process |
| Activities: Workshop activities will include lecture, handouts, group participation, and group discussions. |
| Audience: This workshop is appropriate for behavior analysts who work with children with autism. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Basic |
| Keyword(s): Assessment, Autism, Functional Skills, Teaching |